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Archive for March, 2008

Color me impressed, Navy

Posted in Bloggers, Blogs, Navy on March 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »

As a former Army guy, it usually gives me great pains to give props to the Navy.
Not this time.
I’ve got to say that I am thoroughly impressed with an official blog started aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer. The Destroyermen is a blog written by crew members who want to give a realistic, unvarnished view [...]

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Please stop spamming me, Dawn Rowan

Posted in Pitching blogs on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Dear Dawn Rowan,
You don’t make friends in the blogosphere by sending (multiple!) copies of your press release, embedded in an e-mail, to a blogger.
This is especially true when your press release is about a restaurant (!!) selecting an ad agency is its “agency of record” (!!!) to run a new cutting edge campaign (!!!!) that [...]

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Coming soon: NATO TV

Posted in Television, Web 2.0, Web site on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

From the Associated Press:
 NATO plans to start an online TV channel to improve the image of the Western military alliance.
NATO TV will be launched at a summit next week in Bucharest, Romania, alliance spokesman James Appathurai said Wednesday.
Much of its coverage will focus on the mission of the alliance’s 47,000 troops in Afghanistan. NATO plans [...]

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DOD New Media PR for… DOD New Media!

Posted in Blogs, New Media, Pentagon, YouTube on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What a better way to shill for your new media practice than with a YouTube video?

In all seriousness, OSD has made some major strides in terms of use of online communications in the last two years. Perhaps the Pentagon’s greatest success is the way it has leveraged online video content — [...]

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Two ways to get through the USAF blog filter

Posted in Air Force, Blogs, Proxy on March 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Want to read blogs that are getting blocked by the US Air Force? Here are two ways to circumvent this boneheaded decision:

Use RSS. Noah recommended this approach, and it works well. He also notes a shortcoming; embedded images, audio and video will not get through, only text. Noah mentioned Feed Deamon and Google Reader. Others [...]

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