Digital Diplomacy

[Today in PD] Dennis Rodman And Sports Diplomacy Gone Awry

HE can still dunk like a butterfly, but in the personally tragic case of former basketball pro Dennis Rodman in North Korea, the embrace...

From a Diplomat’s F-Word to Sochi’s Hotel Horrors, It’s Been Twitter’s Big Week

By Carol Matlack February 07, 2014 Photograph by Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian...

CHINA’S CHARM OFFENSIVE: BEYOND APPEARANCES

Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has been a rising star in the arena of public diplomacy. Its PD campaign, coordinated by...

Baird seeks Google help on unleashing Canadian diplomats on social media

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is encouraging Canadian diplomats to experiment with social media to promote democratic freedom and trade across the...

In the Scripted World of Diplomacy, a Burst of Tweets

By MARK LANDLERFEB. 4, 2014  WASHINGTON — On his first anniversary as secretary of state on Tuesday, John Kerry celebrated by reactivating his Twitter handle....

PDcast #13: The Sochi Olympic Games as Public Diplomacy

The Olympics are supposed to be the pinnacle of sports diplomacy, but Sochi is presenting a very different reality. The PDcast is a weekly podcast...

Webinar digest: (Un)knowns in digital politics in 2014

          By Stephanie on 22 Jan 2014 | From the channel/s: Internet Governance, Webinars inShare Internet governance (IG) developments in 2013 confirmed vividly...

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Measuring the impact of e-Diplomacy social media tools like Twitter or Facebook is a notoriously contested area. On the one hand, there is a...

[Today in PD] The Age of Public Diplomacy: From Enmity to Amity

For the first session the keynote speaker, Kent Calder, was joined by Lily Gardner Feldman, senior fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German...

The Daily: Accidental Cultural Exports

Our round-up of news, notes, tips, and Tweets exhibiting how public diplomacy affects the world each and every day. Ambassador Victor H. Ashe posted his...