Belgrade Initiative 4 Public and Digital Diplomacy

Diplomats disciplined over political tweet

Diplomats disciplined over political tweets

Three diplomats, including Ambassador to Switzerland Yigal Caspi, have been recalled to Israel for disciplinary hearings after posting political comments criticizing the prime minister, foreign minister and official state policy on social media.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman

Photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch

Foreign Minister…

British Army sets up new brigade ‘for information age’

The Army is setting up a new unit that will use psychological operations and social media to help fight wars “in the information age”.

Head of the Army General Sir Nick Carter said the move was about trying to operate “smarter”.

The 77th Brigade, made up of reservists and regular troops and based in Hermitage, Berkshire, will be formally created in April.

It has been inspired by the Chindits…

Exclusive data show they’re already dominating – for good and bad – on Facebook, Twitter.

By Hadas Gold

Social media has no doubt who the most buzzworthy potential presidential candidates are at the moment for 2016: Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz together accounted for 40 percent of the discussion on Facebook and nearly half — 47 percent — of mentions on Twitter among 10 top presidential…

From Pinstripes to Tweets ( Story about Digital and Public Diplomacy )

Ah, the good old days of diplomacy. The men donned pinstriped suits and the women were draped in pearls. The image of the diplomat was one of luxury, privilege, exclusivity, and secrecy. The embellishments of high culture and high education were captured in the rich symbolism of the famous painting The Ambassadors, created by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1533, at the dawn of contemporary…

UN Social Media Day: schedule and more

The first “UN Social Media Day” will take place at UN Headquarters in Conference Room 3 on Friday 30 January 2015. All are invited to join the conversation online by using the hashtag of the day: #SocialUN!

Anyone with a UN grounds pass is welcome to stop by for one session to to stay for a full day of panel discussions and briefingsby high-profile speakers about the constantly changing…

Koliko poznajete FACEBOOK ?

Do sada smo znali ko je Veliki Brat, i da nas posmatra, ali sada on zna ko smo mi

Učtiva rečenica: „Da, čuo sam za vas, baš mi je drago što smo se upoznali”, danas ima sasvim drugi smisao.

Opsežno istraživanje u SAD testiralo je novi računarski program koji je na osnovu lajkova na „Fejsbuku” određivao ko je i kakve osobine ima korisnik.

Rezultati su sledeći: ako se unese 10 lajkova, računar…

Uncle Sam Needs More Geeks

Editor’s Note: Nick Sinai is a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, a Venture Partner at Insight Venture Partners, and a former U.S. Deputy CTO at the White House.

One of President Obama’s guests at this year’s State of the Union address was Kathy Pham,a health IT expert formerly of Google and IBM.…

WhatsApp Comes To The Desktop & Evo kako da koristite WhatsApp na računaru

WhatsApp Comes To The Desktop Are you one of the 600 million people on WhatsApp? Do you grow tired of having to type all of your messages through your phone? Good news!

There’s now a desktop version.

It’s a web app rather than a native client — and for now, at least, it seems to only play friendly with Google Chrome.

But if you’re ready to dive in, you can find the new web-ready version of…

MissUNDERSTANDING of Public Diplomacy

Miss USA wants to spread love and peace

THE Miss Universe pageant was won by Miss Colombia, but social media has been talking about Miss USA — and her message to global terrorists.

At the pageant, Miss USA, Nia Sanchez, 24, was asked what message she would send to global terrorists.

As one of the top five finalists in the pageant, Sanchez told the judges: “As Miss USA I can…

Digital Diplomacy- What Is It Good For?

During my travels through cyberspace, I recently came across an article published by Jimmy Leach in August of 2013 on the Huffington Post. In this article, titled “Add Digital Diplomacy to the Long List of Failures Over Syria”, Mr. Leach claims that in the wake of the Syrian civil war, “digital diplomacy never looked so small”. He adds that tyrants like Syria’s Basahr Assad have no interest in…

Canada $9 million for ‘direct diplomacy’

Munk School of Global Affairs, federal government partner on Digital Public Square project

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The University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development Canada are partnering on the Digital Public Square project, a $9 million project that will…

Exclusive interview with the director of Israel’s Digital Diplomacy Unit

Israel has one of the most active Digital Diplomacy units in the world. In a recent survey I conducted of 86 countries spanning the globe, Israel’s MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) was found to be the tenth most active MFA on twitter. It was also the fifth most popular MFA in the sample.

  Yoram Morad, Director of Digital Diplomacy Unit, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  But since we…

Brussels Diplomatic: Serbia Is A Lovely Country To Visit

Brussels Diplomatic, an emagazine published by Desnerck Media Ltd for EU-affairs, diplomacy and expats in Brussels put last week a great article talking about Serbia. Coralie Devies wrote there that Serbia is a lovely country to visit and points out the rich culture and history of Serbia. Coralie Devies also confirms what we are telling here for years, that Serbian people are truly hospitable…

Who to follow in the world of twiplomacy?

When exploring the world of digital diplomacy, one is often confronted by a puzzling plurality of official twitter channels. For instance, the US digital diplomacy apparatus includes President Obama’s twitter channel, Vice President Biden’s twitter channel, Secretary of State John Kerry’s twitter channels, twitter channels operated by official spokespersons of the US government, the State…

Searching for a definition of Digital Diplomacy

It might seem somewhat ludicrous to dedicate a blog to the subject of Digital Diplomacy without first offering a definition of the term Digital Diplomacy. However, this is no simple task as there is currently no such definition. While foreign ministries throughout the world have been eager to adopt Digital Diplomacy, each ministry defines and practices this form of diplomacy in a different…

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 Abbas attends a Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 25. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Over the past few years, foreign ministries and world leaders have…

WHAT DIPLOMATS DO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DIPLOMATS

Brian Barder Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 232 + xii pages; price not indicated

Sir Brian Barder portrays the working life of British diplomats through the experiences of a fictitious Adam, from the selection process at entry into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to his retirement. This is divided into chapters matching Adam’s jobs. The narrative of Eve, his life partner, is interwoven into…