Posted in New Media, Web 2.0 on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »
It appears as though Pentagon communicators — the ones who are responsible for telling the military’s story to the public — can once again learn a thing or two from operators.
Computer World is reporting that other military agencies are already using Web 2.0 technologies to create mashups for the purpose of furthering mission.
From the article:
The [...]
Posted in Army, Images, New Media on February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In an age where people are caught up on verbal communication — blogs and podcasts and wikis (oh my!) — we sometimes forget the power of an image.
The digital age is about more than words. Visual media is sometimes more powerful.
Consider that the Army’s image page is one of the most trafficked on the domain.
Posted in DoD, New Media, PAOs, Web 2.0, Web site on February 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
While writing about Neighborhood America, a company that creates online social networks for commercial, media and government clients, Mashable joked about the fact that the company listed the Department of Defense as one if its clients (MyNukes.com — a new social networking Web site.).
Naturally, I was intrigued and excited that DoD had turned to this [...]
Posted in Off Topic on February 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Posted in 60 Minutes, Blogs, News on February 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Sunday should be interesting. Let’s see how the milblogosphere responds to this.
From Drudge:
They say they are not disloyal. They say they are not shirking their duty and that they do not oppose war. But over 1,000 active-duty and reserve members of the U.S. military are against the war in Iraq and have said so [...]
Posted in Milblogs on February 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Voting for the 2006 Milbloggies is now officially open! Go to milblogging.com and vote.
Thanks to all my friends and readers who nominated me in the military supporter category! If you like what you read here, please, go vote!
Posted in Navy, SMS on February 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I bashed Navy PR firm Campbell-Ewald for not understanding the YouTube culture.
Today, I need to link to an interesting approach they have taken with mobile marketing:
From the Internet to GPS, the U.S. military often gets a first crack at deploying emerging technologies, so it’s fitting that a current U.S. Navy Reserve campaign is [...]
Posted in Navy, YouTube on February 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Earlier this year, the Daily Reel had a post about the U.S. Navy’s use of YouTube. The author of the post, Anthony Kaufman, cited a post that I wrote here at the D-Ring encouraging the Navy to define themselves before others defined them.
Kaufman went on to blast the Navy, saying that the videos didn’t fit [...]
Posted in Blogs, New Media, Outreach, Web 2.0 on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Many of you may be aware that former BG Janice Karpinksy of Abu Ghraib fame is blogging over at the Huffington Post.
What I found fascinating wasn’t her post, but one of the comments:
General Karpinski,
As an American, I feel out of touch with the military. Is there any way for the common man to [...]
Posted in Blogs, Buzz, DoD, New Media on February 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Part of the reason that new media seems to be stuck at the bottom of the communication totem pole at the Pentagon is because it is difficult to explain the value, the return on investment, that it has for communication.
There seems to be general universal agreement among Pentagon elites that main stream media is important. [...]
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