America’s public engagement in this environment should — and will — focus less upon al-Qaeda and more on building broad support for American foreign policy goals, establishing long-term foundations of trust and mutual respect, supporting engagement with potential adversaries, and moving beyond the counter-productive binary oppositions and threat inflation which have blocked progress for so [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Engage: How do we change the goalposts?
Posted in Engage, tagged Abu Aardvark, Al Qaeda, Engage, Marc Lynch, Public Diplomacy, Rene Girad, Roberto Farneti, Terror on 05/19/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good Linkage: 5.19.2009
Posted in Links, tagged Afghanistan, Branding, Links, Pakistan, Public Diplomacy on 05/19/2009 | Leave a Comment »
5.19: For all those nation/place branding folks, Heidi Sinclair authored an interesting piece on HufPo about the potential evolution of corporations becoming media sources. While I find it difficult to believe that I would turn to Nike for sports information over an already established media empire like ESPN of SI, I think there are some lessons [...]
Congrats USC Masters of Public Diplomacy
Posted in Uncategorized on 05/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the absence. Last week was hectic with finishing up my coursework and graduation. I will be back with a vengeance this week. This week, I’ll finish up my analysis of America.gov, write about the need for more media assistance in Afghanistan and the relationship between COIN and PD. Before all that, I want [...]
Must Read: James K. Glassman the Blog
Posted in Must Read, tagged Blogging, James K. Glassman, Must Read, Public Diplomacy on 05/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Glassman is busy blogging. Are you reading? You should be. Here’s why: 1) ROP: Glassman is working up to a consistent five to six posts a week. It is still too early to tell if he will maintain this rate of posting. I like using the stat ROP. We need [...]
Evaluation: America.gov (part 2 of 3)
Posted in Evaluation, tagged America.gov, E-books, Evaluation, H1N1, Language Translation, Podcasts, Swine Flu, Web Chats on 05/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some quick housekeeping: Post one included some of my preliminary criticism of America.gov. Post two will detail what America.gov does right. Post three will present recommendations for a new America.gov. I decided to alter the format so I could spend more time presenting what should be done, than exerting effort on what fails. What America.gov [...]
Engage: Obama, Twitter & Foreign Audiences
Posted in Engage, tagged Micro-Blogging, Obama, Public Diplomacy, Twitter, web 2.0 on 05/01/2009 | 1 Comment »
From Paul Boutin at New York Times’ Gadget Wise blog, … there are two outstanding reasons President Obama or an aide should tweet one line per day: First, Twitter’s text-only, 140-character-max simplicity is ideal for putting out a statement or a call to action without the need to script a longer essay or speech. Mr. Obama’s two [...]
