“Wikileaks is just one side of the U.S. Defense Social Media Story - here is background on their presence and use of social media.”
Curated by
Kevin Dugan
Social networking has already profoundly redefined business practices and politics. National security is next. Washington is well behind in its willingness and capacity to adapt to the world of Web 2.0. Congress and the Administration need to lay the foundation for the broad and effective adaptation of social networking by facilitating early and rapid adaptation of new technologies.
In yesterday’s Social Media and Government conference, I got to listen to Air Force Captain David Faggard talk about his his role in both monitoring social media as well as internal training.
By dismantling their social media office (see article on Wired), which had been in place for two years, and making social media the responsibility of every member of his staff, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs Douglas Wilson shows how the future of social media will look like.
The military services often pay lip service to embracing new media -- sometimes to comical effect. But the Coast Guard, at least, is making a concerted effort
The Coast Guards top officer discussed plans to adopt social-media practices to modernize the Coast Guard and increase the organization’s transparency in a teleconference yesterday with bloggers and online journalists.
n February 2010, the United States military concluded a seven-month study into the risks and benefits of allowing all of its members to make use of the emerging capabilities of the World Wide Web. As a result, the DoD unblocked use of key websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, personal blogs, and YouTube, which the organization had disallowed for military personnel in 2007.
|
Curated list of feeds from Military, Government and Related Twitter Accounts
This document provides extensive social media guidance. It contains information for Army leaders, guidance for Army Fami
America's Army, the Official U.S. Army Game (AA), provides young Americans with a virtual web-based environment in which they can explore Army career opportunities within an entertaining setting that is tailored to their interests and aptitudes
Lately, I’ve had many conversations around the topic of social media and the US Dept. of Defense. There’s not a lot published on the topic, but here’s how I categorize where the interest is:
The U.S. Army on Social Media
WWW.ARMY.MIL currently operates the official U.S. Army social media pages for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr & many more. We are dedicated to telling the Soldiers story, and in return promoting those stories to an external audience on social networking sites. 
At a time when Facebook has 500 million users and Twitter is closing in on 200 million, the Pentagon no longer has a single person guiding its communications
|
