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Diplomats and their online selves: interacting with social media
By Mary on 7 Feb 2012 - 12:53 | From the E-diplomacy channel

In a recent interview with Diplo’s Stephanie Borg Psaila, Karen Melchior, First Secretary at the Danish Embassy in London, talks about how she has been able to integrate the use of social media in her everyday work.

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Establishing a strong online presence through the use of social media: E-diplomacy in practice
By Stephanie on 4 Feb 2012 - 15:56 | From the E-diplomacy channel

Just how deeply involved in the use of social media are today’s diplomats and embassies?

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Twitter vs twitter: Can we discuss the new Twitter policy using twitter?
By Jovan Kurbalija on 2 Feb 2012 - 12:34 | From the E-diplomacy channel

Twitter has introduced a new policy allowing the possibility of filtering tweets at the request of local governments. This major departure in policy has triggered an avalanche of tweet-style protests.

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Canute, Plato, Theuth and Twitter
By petecranston on 1 Feb 2012 - 10:29 | From the E-diplomacy channel

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The half-life of your links
By Mary on 26 Jan 2012 - 10:41 | From the E-diplomacy channel

Bitly, the people who shorten lengthy links and make them more manageable, recently looked at what they're calling the 'half-life' of links, i.e.

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Is Google doing evil, and does it matter for development of the Internet?
By petecranston on 13 Jan 2012 - 15:58 | From the E-diplomacy channel
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What if the cloud gets hit by lightning?
By Ginger on 2 Dec 2011 - 17:18 | From the E-diplomacy channel

If there are clouds, there might be rain--And it is raining, it is pouring...

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E-diplomacy: Training and Capacity Development
By Jovan Kurbalija on 2 Nov 2011 - 23:07 | From the E-diplomacy channel

Last week I delivered presentation on training and capacity development in e-diplomacy at the College of Europe conference Challenges facing the 21st century diplomat: Representation, communication, negotiation, and training” (Bruges, 25-26 October 2011).

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Indegree, retweets, and mentions: What does it take to be influential on Twitter?
By Mary on 26 Oct 2011 - 14:17 | From the E-diplomacy channel

Just condense your message into 140 characters and launch it into the world. Those who like it might forward it to their friends, some of whom might then choose to follow you. You, too, need to follow others and retweet their messages.

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E-participation means participate!
By Ginger on 19 Sep 2011 - 16:25 | From the E-diplomacy channel

If we could do just one thing that would make a difference to our communication problems, to our understanding of the world, to the conflict we live in – what should it be?

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