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Why Mahmoud Abbas should join Twitter

PA President should join Twitter to create the climate necessary for the continuation of peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

Good journalism is always good public diplomacy

Voice of America report from Paris fails to point out absence of top U.S. leaders. As noted on this site, a text and video report...

Five things: What the hack of the U.S. military’s Twitter account means

What does the hack of social media accounts for the U.S. military’s central command – by people claiming to be working with Islamic State (ISIL) militants – mean to...

The promise and peril of digital diplomacy

At 5 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, five Canadian diplomats stationed in Tehran quietly left the country. After years of increasing tensions and...

‘Tweets for you’ is Twitter’s worst experiment yet

I was scrolling through Twitter this morning, catching up on the news of the day, when suddenly a bunch of tweets from people I...

Politics, Diplomacy and Social Media

  Eva Kaili. Photo Courtesy of Eva Kaili  Simply put, President Barack Obama made it necessary, and cool, for politicians to use social media. The success...

Političari navučeni na „Tviter”

Mislim da je političarima, naročito onima na vlasti, vrlo teško da budu dobri tviteraši. Šta god da izjave, makar to bilo i ’dobro jutro’,...

You won’t believe these digital platforms Ottawa should totally be leveraging

Or, nine channels beyond Buzzfeed the Canadian government might use to spread the word When seeking to deliver a smackbottom to Vladimir Putin's expansionist tendencies...

“The Interview” – Digital Diplomacy, a Battlefield or Marketplace of Ideas?

In defending our right to consume film, music, art and culture as free citizens, the danger is converting the internet from a thriving marketplace...

Digital Diplomacy Moments in 2014

These are the key tweets from world leaders in 2014 and some of the most retweeted tweets this year. From Foreign Secretaries debuting on Twitter...