On February 5th Secretary Clinton held a Town Hall meeting for State Department employees... and to my delight, she addressed a question that has been on my mind for quite some time:
Does DOS plan to utilize new media in global public diplomacy initiatives, and if so, how?
On the security issue and on outreach and public diplomacy, we must figure out a way consistent with security to use these new tools. There is no doubt in my mind that we have barely scratched the surface as to what we can use to communicate with people around the world, and in fact, to use [new technologies] as tools ...to further our own work and to be smart about it. … If people have ideas about how better to use these tools, please let me know because we’re going to work very hard – we have some people already looking at this – to see what more we can do to stay in touch with the world, which is our job, after all, to try to do that.
Dear Secretary Clinton,
Call me, I looooove staying in touch with the world!
Love,
Emily
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There's apparently a big debate on the implications of friending Iran on Facebook.
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