Link Friday

Redstate flames Redacted. (You can view the trailer here.)
Towleroad talks about a more political version of “flags in.” (You can read about Arlington Cemetery’s tradition here.)

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Go Army! Beat Navy!

From Flickr, uploaded by Hoses.

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Come on, Bryan

So I thought Bryan from the Center for Security Policy had learned a bit about pitching bloggers since he last pitched the D-Ring (here and here).
Apparently I was wrong.
I just got another pitch from Bryan. And from it, I give you today’s lesson on blogger relations:if you have pitched a blogger before, and have had [...]

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The Army is blogging!

Kinda.
The U.S. Army has a contestant in this year’s Miss America Pageant — Miss Utah, or Sgt. Jill Stevens. She is a veteran of Afghanistan and a member of the National Guard, and she is blogging about her experience in the competition.
They aren’t calling it a blog, probably as not to intimidate the higher ups [...]

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Vote Vets and new media

If there were an award for the top military-themed online advocacy program of the year, it would need to go to Vote Vets.
VoteVets.org is an advocacy organization founded by OIF veteran Jon Soltz. It has a political advocacy arm that seeks to:

elect veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to public office — regardless of party;
oppose elected [...]

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State still learning blogs

A bunch of friends have forwarded me this article, or news like it (thanks all!). From the Washington Post:
The State Department, departing from traditional public diplomacy techniques, has what it calls a three-person, “digital outreach team” posting entries in Arabic on “influential” Arabic blogs to challenge misrepresentations of the United States and promote moderate [...]

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Thumbs up: ASY Giving Thanks Campaign

Text messaging is the new frontier for communications.
Mobile phones are ubiquitous in the US. Tens of billions of text messages are sent and received every year.
Yet marketers are still experimenting with the best ways to tap into this phenomenal communications resource.
The DOD however, has come up with an interesting approach that I think is quite [...]

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Redacted

Do you want to hear a war story? 

Looks pretty intense.
Interesting tidbit: This movie is premiering tonight on HDNet Movies. It hits theaters on Friday.

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Becoming a micro-niche

Or, in other words, how do you carve out your space in the blogosphere?
I had an interesting back-and-forth with prolific PR blogger Todd Defren of SHiFT Communications about the role of leadership in the blogosphere.
While he noted several A-listers such as Scoble, Rubel and Weiner, I pointed out that in the blogosphere is not a [...]

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One Year in the D-Ring

Wow. A year went by so fast.
I’ve been blogging for longer than a year (you can see my first attempt at blogging — but be prepared to laugh at me), but as of today, The D-Ring is one year old.
Who knew I’d still be blogging here after a year. Or that I’d have as many [...]

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