Digital Diplomacy

Conclusions and Recommendations for eDiplomacy @ State …….

Ten years since the creation of the first office of ediplomacy, ediplomacy is no longer an experiment. In key areas at State it is...

It’s A Mobile World: How Public Diplomacy At The State Department Is Adapting

During a recent visit to IIP’s OIE, we talked of Agile at ODDI, GitHub, PAOs, and … did I lose you yet? When I moved...

A Message To The Public Diplomacy Community From Richard Stengel, Under Secretary For PD

The below message was distributed to members of the public diplomacy community via e-mail on Feb. 18, 2014 by the State Department. On my first...

US SD Global Social Media Presence

The U.S. Department of State's social media presence extends around the world – including U.S. embassies, consulates, and other missions. The list below represents...

Knowledge Management for eDiplomacy Resources ……

What’s the Issue? The third area at State attracting serious ediplomacy resources is knowledge management. This was the first use ediplomacy at State. It is...

Diplotwoops: What deleted diplomatic tweets say about the Ukraine

Recent diplomatic activity around the crisis in the Ukraine is not only headline news but deleted tweets of diplomats and embassies show another side...

Internet Freedom: The Role of the U.S. State Department …..

What’s the Issue? Internet freedom was until recently not a foreign policy issue. Newton-Small traces the origins of the policy to a conversation four years...

AAFSW: A Guide to Connecting Communities at Overseas Posts via Facebook and WordPress

– Domani Spero There was a time when embassy newsletters were distributed only in printed format. Do you remember that?  Later they were distributed as...

Public Diplomacy ….

By: Fergus Hanson "Our basic assumption is that we’ve all lost control of the information environment—the only option is to embrace the change and work...

The History of eDiplomacy at the U.S. Department of State ..

Despite the United States’ long history of innovation in the field of communications technologies, the State Department’s emergence as the world’s leading user of...