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Over the past two weeks I have published posts dealing with issues that arouse in Israel's 1st Digital Diplomacy Conference held earlier this year in Tel Aviv. This week's post offers insight into an additional issue that was debated by scholars and practitioners who attended the conference- diplomats' need to engage with social media followers.... Continue Reading →
Last week I published the results of an analysis that focused on ambassadors who are active on twitter in addition to their embassy. My results indicated that some ambassadors add to their embassy’s digital diplomacy impact by publishing engaging content. This week I decided to further my analysis of tweeting ambassadors and investigate whether or not ambassadors use twitter in... Continue Reading →
On Friday, the Hamas organization launched a five day social media campaign aimed at altering the image of the organization among Western countries. The stated goal of the twitter campaign, which allows social media followers to query Hamas leaders through the hashtag #AskHamas, was to re-brand the organization as a liberation movement rather than a... Continue Reading →
2014 Summaries Over the past few weeks, many bloggers, journalists and research institutes investigating digital diplomacy have published their summaries of 2014. One such summary that attracted much attention dealt with India's digital diplomacy achievements over the past year. While some have focused on the social media activity of India's new Prime Minister and twitter celebrity Narendra... Continue Reading →
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