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Israeli soldiers preach Facebook vigilantism

From the man who started the panic over Twitter supposedly causing panic, more panic over Facebook supposedly empowering holocaust deniers and causing terrorism.

Tags: social_networking, Military, terrorism, social_media on 2009-05-23 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Are We Developing a "Different Kind" of Leaders?

Tags: complexity, new_media, social_media, Military on 2009-05-18 -All Annotations (4) -About

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Researchers say social media essential for national security

Tags: social_media, Military on 2009-04-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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U.S. Army uses Facebook page, tweets to declare war on Ashton Kutcher's top Twitter spot

Tags: army, social_media, social_networking, Military on 2009-04-27 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (7) -About

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The U.S. Army wants you - to be its friend on Facebook.
You can also follow the Army on Twitter. Or post a comment on its new blog. They're all part of the Army's new mission: social networking.

"If Ashton Kutcher can do it, the U.S. Army can do it," said Lindy Kyzer, who posts the Army's "status updates" on Facebook and "tweets" on Twitter.
The U.S. Army wants you - to be its friend on Facebook.
You can also follow the Army on Twitter. Or post a comment on its new blog. They're all part of the Army's new mission: social networking.

"If Ashton Kutcher can do it, the U.S. Army can do it," said Lindy Kyzer, who posts the Army's "status updates" on Facebook and "tweets" on Twitter.
Even Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is on Facebook. With nearly 5,000 "friends," the four-star general is updating his status straight from the battlefield - something unheard of in past conflicts.

Gen. Michael Oates, commander of the 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum, N.Y., has been blogging from Iraq for months.
The Facebook and Twitter messages are really an extension of the press releases and stories that Army officials put out through the Division of Public Affairs. But it's also a place for soldiers and their families to connect.
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- Correct...at least on the first part anyway. I'm seeing a lot of re-broadcasting of public affairs materials. Some services are better than others in this regard--i.e. more engagement, less re-broadcast.
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-04-27
The Army's not alone. The Air Force is on Twitter and the Coast Guard is on Facebook.
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- The Coast Guard is also on Twitter, and they are one of the worst re-broadcast offenders.
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-04-27

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Military Bases Block Official Army Tweets

Tags: social_media, Military, MilBlogging, social_networking on 2009-04-27 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform

Tags: microblogging, crowd mining, social media surveillance, social_media on 2009-04-26 and saved by 15 people -All Annotations (9) -About

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HealthMap | Global disease alert map

Tags: social media surveillance, social_media, crowd mining, science2.0, scholarship2.0 on 2009-03-20 and saved by 57 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Twitter Snow Map

Tags: social_media, social media surveillance, crowd mining, scholarship2.0, science2.0 on 2009-03-20 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Google Flu Trends

Tags: crowd mining, social_media, social media surveillance, scholarship2.0, science2.0 on 2009-03-20 and saved by 71 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse

Tags: social_media, scholarship2.0, blogosphere analysis, social media surveillance, crowd mining on 2009-03-20 and saved by 10 people -All Annotations (11) -About

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Blogs vs Twitter? It’s the Interactivity

Nancy Baym over at Online Fandom has a great discussion of the differences between Twitter and Blogging. Definitely worth a read!

Tags: social_media, microblogging, blogging on 2009-03-18 and saved by 7 people -All Annotations (12) -About

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Twitter isn’t a substitute for blogging.
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- And it should be added that neither should Twitter be merely a rebroadcast of one's blog.
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-03-18
People like Twitterers’ minutia.
People — even smart thoughtful ones — actually LIKE the mix of links, random thoughts, and bits of daily life. They LIKE watching the person, not the topic.
Twitter is about banter. That banter is the best part.
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- Playing devil's advocate for the moment: Could the rebroadcast of blog posts via Twitter help to create more discussion around a particular post? And where would/should that discussion occur--e.g. as short bursts of banter on Twitter, or longer comments on the blog site? Could/should Twitter drive conversation (that otherwise might not occur) to the blog site; or should it take place on Twitter? And if on Twitter, how might that conversation remain linked in some way to the original blog post?
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-03-18
Twitter is temporal and cumulative. I made this mistake myself; it’s not until some time after you’ve decided to take Twitter seriously and made it part of the ritual of daily life that you really get it. If you check out someone’s feed, you can get a sense of whether they’re interesting to you, but it’s not until you live with someone’s tweets day in and day out that you know whether the rhythms and content of their messages are going to be rewarding or not.
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- Very true. I had the same experience, in particular with a number of military public affairs Twitter accounts. And this is where I learned that using Twitter to merely rebroadcast blog posts (which themselves were often a rebroadcast of press releases) adds no value, misses the point of Twitter, and is actually quite annoying.
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-03-18
Twitter is a great site for language play. The 140 character limit is a fun challenge for wordsmiths, and those who do it well are joys to read. As a genre, insamuch as it is a genre, the language of Twitter is just way more fun than the language of blogs.
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- Again, I totally agree and have noticed as much myself. There are, at times, "arms races" of "wordsmithery," games of one-upsmanship in which the participants try to out-do the others in terms of the snarkiness, etc. of their Tweets (or status updates on Facebook). Again, this is another aspect of Twitter's uniqueness, fun, and value that is missed when people merely use it as a channel for rebroadcasting blog posts or press releases.
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-03-18
Can we just quit judging every new mode of communication that comes along and finding it wanting in comparison to the last one?
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- Judging in the negative, judgemental way? Yes, we should stop. Comparing and contrasting in a constructive way (as Baym has done here) to determine what's the same/different among these technologies, where their strengths/weakenesses are, their unique attributes, values, etc.? We should do more of that.
  posted by TransTracker on 2009-03-18

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Pentagon Gets a Blogger of Its Own

DoD now has a blog, huh? Let's see: Written by a journalist, high production values, and it only serves as a cheerleader for the organization. Sorry guys, that's not a blog....not really.

Tags: milblogging, social_media on 2009-03-03 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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Who's using wikis

Federal Computer Week provides a quick list of government agencies using wikis and what they are using them for.

Tags: e-gov, new_media, social_media, collaboration on 2009-02-27 -All Annotations (1) -About

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The Top Twitterers’ Network

Tags: blogosphere analysis, social_networking, social_media on 2009-02-27 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (5) -About

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The Air Force's Tug-of-War

Via the D-Ring blog, links to two stories about the internal war within the Air Force over the use of social/new media and Internet technologies more generally.

Tags: social_media, new_media, air_force on 2009-02-20 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Soldiers banned from using MySpace and Facebook... in case they breach national security

Though early signs are good that the U.S. military has gone through this phase and is emerging on the other side with a more rational response--i.e. there have been recent reports of greater use of social media by commanders; each of the services have recently developed presences on Facebook, Second Life, Twitter, etc.--the Brits seem still to be in the ban-it-first-think-and-ask-questions-later phase.

Tags: social_media, military on 2009-02-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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