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

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