May 2011
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US Public Diplomacy use of Social Media in Lt...
Was reading speech by Judith McHale on US public diplomacy in Latin America. Seems that all the urging of US to listen may have been heard. Interesting also that some of the examples illustrate how listening is conceived.
McHale “New media and connective technologies enhance our ability to listen. That is the number one improvement to our 21st century public diplomacy toolkit. Social media...
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FB quasi-diplomats
Reading piece in Slate by Cyrus Farivar on Facebook’s diplomats.
Interested to see how FB will develop its public diplomacy using its own tool. What particularly interesting is that mission of FB’s ‘quasi-diplomats’ appears very similar to public diplomacy definitions. mission of FB quasi-diplomats ” to represent the company in various countries around the globe....
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Obama speech & US public diplomacy collision...
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Arab spring
The problem for US public diplomacy is not just that seems to be mis-reading public sentiment, but that there appears to be a widening gap between perceptions.
New magazine by AUC Cairo Review. Read Scott MacLeod “Obama’s ME Cluelessness.”
z-Notes - Gives perspective of Arab world looking at US and trying to figure out what is going on with US administration. Cites 2 articles:...
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Palestinian PD
Al-Jazeera today reported “The Palestinian People Committee” has called for marches to the Palestinian border this Friday.
z-Note - not the Palestinian Authority (PA) or the Palestine Liberation Organization or other established Palestinian political entities but the ad hoc Committee.
دعت لجنة شبابية فلسطينية إلى يوم زحف آخر باتجاه الحدود الفلسطينية المحتلة يوم الجمعة المقبل أطلقت...
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US Saudi relations
Strong op-ed in Washington Post today.
Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.-Saudi split
By Nawaf Obaid, Published: May 15
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
Obaid is a senior fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies.
z-Notes:
- tension between Abdullah and U.S. preference for Bendar and his son Sultan
- no mention of China - Saudi commercial trade / U.S.-Saudi trade
- degrading...
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ethics & credibility
ethics will replace credibility as the pivotal feature in effective and persuasive communication.
why?
in traditional message-based communication, credibility is key to effective persuasion. credibility is an attribute tied to source or message.
In relational and network approach, credibility is not an inherent attribute tied to the source or message but is rooted in the relationship between...
