DoD revamped its Social Media hub July 22. It’s now well thought-out with a visitor focus. It’s dead easy to find what you need.
From Federal Computer Week:
DOD today launched an updated Social Media Hub Web page to provide quick links to service-affiliated Facebook, Twitter and YouTube social media sites as well as policy documents, training [...]
Next time you want to search for Army images on a specific subject, try this trick in Internet Explorer 7 or higher:
1. Go to the Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer page (select “Find More Providers” in the search window on your browser).
2. In the yellow “create your own” box, under step 3, insert the following [...]
How seriously do industry communicators take social media monitoring? Here’s an interesting glimpse, courtesy of Mashable:
The room features 6 big monitors with 5 seats for Gatorade’s marketing team to track a number of data visualizations and dashboards – also available on to employees on their desktops — that the company has custom build with partners [...]
Associated Press released its 2010 Stylebook today. Good news: AP acknowledges 21st-century usage. Bad news: We gotta learn the new rules.
Mashable reports:
The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules [...]
Published in Jan 2010, a George Washington University and Cision survey of journalists reports 89% use blogs and 65% use social networks to research stories.
Lee Odden at the TopRank Online Marketing Blog analyzes results of a couple of studies measuring reporters’ use of online resources. PAOs should be aware of these techniques; and our own journalists [...]
The new DoD social media policy acknowledges the way humans communicate in the 21st Century. It also puts the burden of operational security on individuals and their trainers. See “New policy authorizes social media access, with caveats.”
If Google Wave lives up to the hype, could today’s New Media be tomorrow’s CB Radio? See How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times.
If you want a provocative headline, try this one: “Social networking puts operational security, Soldiers lives at risk.”
Eve Meinhardt, writing in the Fort Bragg Paraglide, seems to go against everything we’re preaching in Army public affairs today, especially given the social media emphasis in the 2009 Worldwide Public Affairs Symposium in April and the Association [...]
Excerpted from “Consider before you Twitter,” by Sgt. Keith VanKlompenberg, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary):
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – The Internet has become an indispensible tool for Soldiers, allowing them to keep in contact with friends and family and share deployment stories from across the globe through social networking sites and blogs.
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The Army respects every Soldier’s [...]
Portability, readability and browsability: these attributes of print give hope to publishers in the face of the rapid conversion of our text and image media to electrons.
In portability – the ability to engage media anywhere – books, newspapers and magazines are giving way to electronic readers and smart phones. But in that, electronics has a way [...]
