Tag: DIPLOMACY

The U.S. State Department seems to be embracing social media in a big way. While the American diplomatic agency isn't new to services like Twitter and Facebook, it has markedly stepped up its presence in recent weeks. Spokespeople from within the department have started directly addressing residents of foreign countries and leaders via Twitter to refute rumors and clarify U.S. policy. More ...

Former President Bill Clinton gave a keynote address at the Dreamforce conference yesterday, during which he discussed global and domestic economic inequalities, technology, and, of course, WikiLeaks. Clinton described the whistleblowing organization's recent leak of diplomatic cables as unfortunate, but didn't go quite as far in condemning the site as his wife recently did. Instead, the ...

While most other American officials struggle to substantially advance diplomatic relations with North Korea, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley has decided to take a slightly different approach to cracking the North Korean nut: Twitter. As the New York Times reports, Crowley recently posted a series of pointed tweets about the eternally enigmatic Pyongyang regime, which only recently ...

Share Over the course of the past few years, Alec J. Ross and Jared Cohen, two 20-something members of the U.S. State Department, have become quasi-celebrities in diplomatic circles, primarily because of their push to spread social networking technology to the farthest corners of the world. Throughout their global technological crusade, both Ross and Cohen have been tirelessly tweeting about ...