USJFCOM liveblogging

You might have noticed a new RSS feed in the right-hand column. That is because today, United States Joint Forces Command is beginning to liveblog a homeland security exercise they are conducting: “Noble Resolve.”
From enterprising PAO Spc. Andrew Orillion:
We will be live blogging from the site of the first “Noble Resolve”, a
series of homeland defense [...]

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Top tips for effective blogger outreach

A lot of military organizations have contacted me in the past few weeks for some tips on reaching out to the blogosphere.
I think this great post from Beltway Blogroll (a must read, IMHO) sums it up best:
Washington flacks should read it and ponder what will work best for them. Here it is:
– Church Of The [...]

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Half staff

Blogger John Aravosis asks:
Why do we fly the flag at half-staff for the VA Tech victims, for deceased US Senators and judges, but not for our soldiers fallen in war?
The answer? I don’t know. But we should.

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Bad use of widgets

Don’t you love it when you are going through your files and find something that you wanted to write about a few months ago, but never got around to?
That happened to me today.
A couple months ago, I took a screen shot of a Widget (presumably created by OSD Public Affairs) that syndicates news from DOD [...]

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D-Ring News Wire 4.20.07

From Army.mil:

Army Releases New OPSEC Regulation
Apr 19, 2007
BY J.D. Leipold
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 20, 2007) – Changes to the Army’s operations security regulation address accountability, new technology and the inclusion of all Army personnel in OPSEC practices.
The revised Army Regulation 530-1, “Operations Security,” provides updated definitions; aligns the Army’s policies, terms and [...]

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The interesting thing about search…

… is that things that have long vanished from the front page of a blog continued to be discovered (thanks to the like of Google Blog Search, Technorati and the like.)
One of the top search terms for my blog?
Cambell-Ewald.
Because I slammed their YouTube video outreach efforts.
To their credit, Campbell-Ewald has done a good job of [...]

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One hundo

Good news, D-Ring fans (at least to me, anyhow).
On Sunday, The D-Ring crossed a milestone, and there are now over 100 readers who subscribe to the D-Ring RSS feed (in addition to my readers who read directly from the site.)
So thanks to all of you who have subscribed, commented, e-mailed, linked, and shared your thoughts [...]

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D-Ring News Wire: Online in Space

From BBC News:
A programme to kick-start the use of internet communications in space has been announced by the US government.
The Department of Defense’s Iris project will put an internet router in space by the start of 2009.
It will allow voice, video and data communications for US troops using standards developed for the [...]

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The Public Affairs Pentathlete

In a comment on my blog, Chris Vadnais wrote:

“Your audience shouldn’t be your fellow service members; it should be me.”
I disagree with you on this, as I think the commanders on the ground would.
Military broadcasters–on whom much of the responsibility for creating these new media products is going to fall–are expected to disseminate command messages [...]

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D-Ring 2.0

A while ago, a friend pointed me to the Web 2.0 logo creator.
And I thought to myself, why doesn’t the D-Ring have an official Web 2.0 logo?
So I decided to create one.
For my first attempt, I got this:

But it felt too boring. Besides everyone knows that Web 2.0 companies don’t have hypens. How about…

Better. But [...]

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