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3 Streaming Live: James Glassman on Public Diplomacy 2.0, Helene Cooper on her Memoir of a Lost African Childhood, and Barton Gellman on Richard "The Angler" Cheney
The Washington Note —
Monday and Tuesday this next week, I have three events I am chairing at the New America Foundation -- and all of them are superb. If you are in the Washington, DC area, you are welcome to join us. I'll hyperlink the website for each of the specific events so that you can RSVP directly to our event staff.
The first features Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy James K. Glassman who will be speaking on the subject, "Public Diplomacy 2.0."
Glassman will be sharing his thoughts on how new technology, including social ...
STREAMING LIVE AT 10 am EST: James Glassman on "Facebook/Twitter Diplomacy"
The Washington Note —
I have become an increasingly mesmerized fan of social networking sites like Facebook and vehicles like Twitter in changing and essentially rewiring the "connectivity of people to ideas."
James Glassman, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and successor in that role to Karen Hughes, has also been thinking about networks and technology in how he thinks about facilitating dialogues at home and abroad about violence, self determination, and civic involvement.
Glassman's talk today at the New America Foundation is titled "Public ...
Daily Digest: Obama as Clinton Redux, in More Ways Than One
techPresident —
... It's a provocative topic (particularly post-Mumbai), as Glassman has delved into using social networking to "encourage young people with political grievances to find outlets for their protests other than violent extremism." The session has wrapped, but the webcast is archived here. ...
Egyptian Activists Challenge Facebook-Enabled Diplomacy 2.0
techPresident —
The anonymous Egyptian youth activist with the Shabab 6 April movement at today's Alliance of Youth Movements Summit at Columbia University law school had a bone to pick with Facebook, but reserved his ire for the American government. It's bad enough that Facebook's group restrictions -- limits on how active members can be, restrictions on booting troublemakers out -- make organizing tricky. But he had far harsher words for the United States government's support of the reign of Hosni Mubarak. Why, he asked, was the U.S. so committed to perpetuating a repressive government against the wishes of that country's citizenry? ...
A Digital State: Off the Campaign Trail, Clinton Takes to New Media
techPresident —
In an exit interview with the new Public Diplomacy Magazine, former State Department point person on online/offline diplomacy James Glassman reports, "In my humble opinion Web 2.0 has completely changed this game." But with Bush-appointee Glassman taking leave of Foggy Bottom, there has been some questioning inside and outside State of how well his Facebook/YouTube/Twitter-powered "Public Diplomacy 2.0" had a place in Hillary Clinton's universe. The Associated Press's Matthew Lee, at least, sees signs that PD 2.0, as Glassman liked to call it, is a ...
