Public diplomacy

A review of the European Commission’s social media presence in 2013

@marcoRecorder Co-written with @AmyJColgan, @PabloPerezA. Published on Waltzing Matilda Blog Assessing our performances is key to understanding how we can improve. In this post we want...

140 things you don’t know about Twitter

On March 21, 2006, a simple messaging service was born with a five-word tweet. Fast forward eight years. Tweets now move billions of dollars in the...

15 years since NATO aggression against Serbia and Montenegro

In March 1999, at the direction of the United States of America, NATO engaged in its first act of illegal aggressive war, beginning what...

A Post Not Called ‘Is Diplomacy Dead Too?’

I was struck by an article by Robert Phillips on the death of PR   (http://www.prweek.com/article/1285244/pr-dead-public-leadership-future). Why is an ambassador to Lebanon reading PR Week? Fair...

Conflict Cuisine: Teaching War Through Washington’s Ethnic Restaurant Scene

By Johanna Mendelson Forman, with Sam Chapple Sokol It is a Washington cliché: you can always tell where in the world there is a conflict...

Can Cultural Diplomacy Be Seen As Merely Propaganda?

The devil is very influencial because he is holding a bait which pleases the fleshly eyes. By: Kyei-Afrifa Ma Germa More Quotes |...

Why digital diplomacy is not a thing (yet)

@marcoRecorder Some time ago I had the chance to participate in a very good seminar chaired by Jon Worth a well-known communication consultant in Brussels....

The State of Gastrodiplomacy

By Paul Rockower It is fitting that a magazine devoted to studying innovations and trends in the field of public diplomacy has turned its focus...

Turkish President Rejects Facebook, YouTube Ban Over Wiretaps

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's president on Friday ruled out any ban on Facebook and YouTube after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the sites could...

Benefiting From the Mobile Revolution

A Device is Displayed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Recently FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, and I visited the beautiful...