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NORAD Tracks Santa

Posted in Twitter, tagged on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

NORAD, you have out done yourself this year.
I’ve written about the famous NORAD Tracks Santa program — an effort that began accidentally in the 1950s when a department store catalog unwittingly listed the NORAD help desk as the number for Santa. Kids across the country started calling in, and NORAD played along.
Today, the DOD has [...]

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Flash: Palmieri for communication role at Pentagon? (Politico)

Posted in D-Ring, Pentagon on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, it looks like my handicapping for the Pentagon top communication role came up empty (other than the fact that, as I surmised, Morrell will stay on with Sec. Gates as the spokesman).
Politico is reporting the Jennifer Palmieri, a senior Clinton administration official currently serving as senior vice president for communciations at progressive think tank [...]

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How not to communicate

Posted in Bloggers, Blogs, Images on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Great shot by Michael Yon. He is one of the best. If you aren’t reading him (and/or contributing to his continued journalistic efforts), you should be.

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Dang. Scooped again.

Posted in Air Force on December 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Dang you, David Meerman Scott, for beating me to the punch on what the Air Force is doing in the world of social media.
Not only does he have a better, glossier and more professional blog photo than I do (left), but he also got the first interview that I know of with Capt. Faggard, USAF [...]

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Air Force crowd sourcing on recruiting commercials

Posted in Advertising, Air Force, Video, YouTube on December 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »

As a former Army PAO, I enjoy ribbing the Chair Air Force every now and then.
But when they do interesting things, I need to give them kudos.
Yesterday, Capt. Dave Faggard from Air Force Public Affairs posted a call out to airmen around the world to create their own video showing why he or she has [...]

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Happy Holidays

Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now, through the New Year, it will be snowing in the D-Ring.
Thanks to WordPress for this fun, but not quite useful feature!

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The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words

Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So this isn’t about the military. And it is only tangentially about new media.
But I have always believed that choosing to write on a blog or another social media platform is NOT a license to write poorly. (Note: Edited to add a key missing word there. Thanks KJ!)
Enter Copyblogger, perhaps the best when it comes [...]

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Thirty seconds in The Ring (Friday, Dec. 5)

Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

OSD(PA) holds all-service new media meeting. (Twitter)
Sec. Gates tells jokes… (Time.com)
…But isn’t joking about this. (Foreign Affairs)
Philippe Reines to advise Sec. Clinton, Doug Hattaway to brief the international press in Foggy Bottom? (USA Today)
Air Force on Twitter, selects really strange handle. (Twitter)

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DVIDS on Twitter

Posted in DVIDS, New Media, Web 2.0 on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Don’t know what DVIDS is? Don’t know what Twitter is?
I encourage you to check both out.

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TRADOC comes to Second Life… a bit too late

Posted in Army, PR, Public Relations, Second Life on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Nick Turse, a new correspondent at Wired’s Danger Room Blog, is reporting from the Army Science Conference in Orlando that TRADOC is building an island in Second Life. (UPDATE: Apparently the Air Force is in Second Life too… oh bother.)
From Turse:
The Army Second Life effort will actually consist of two virtual islands.  One of them, [...]

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