Gov 2.0 Radio: More Military 2.0
- Luke Fretwell · February 2, 2010, 12:59 am
Gov 2.0 Radio hosts Lauren Vargas and Lindy Kyzer in a discussion of how the modern military is using Web 2.0 tools to fulfill its mission.
Gov 2.0 Radio hosts Lauren Vargas and Lindy Kyzer in a discussion of how the modern military is using Web 2.0 tools to fulfill its mission.
milSuite videos promoting milWiki, milBlog and milBook.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen discuss the impact of social media on democratic freedom and how military can leverage it.
The U.S. Army is set to launch My.Army.Mil. The site is Army’s “official user-customized homepage featuring Army news, information and media from around the globe.”
From the press release:
After visitors sign-in and authenticate with Google Friend Connect (AIM, Google, Yahoo and OpenID) or AKO (Army Knowledge Online), they will be prompted to add and arrange a series of widgets to suit their specific information needs. Powering these widgets are open source technologies such as JQuery, PHP, MySQL and API integration.
Featured widgets include:
- An All Services widget with feeds from the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy
- Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube widgets that sync with many Army organizations
- My Army News widget with customized feeds from Commands, Corps, Divisions, Installations, and traditional news sections
- A Features widget highlighting stories of Valor, Army events, history and heritage
- AKO (Army Knowledge Online) widget to log-in to AKO
- Video widget with official Army videos, newscasts and raw footage
- RSS widget that can pull multiple feeds from external sites
When I saw this article by Air Force General Craig McKinley (@ChiefNGB) about why he tweets, it got me thinking about military transparency. They are, after all, a huge part of the government — I should know, I grew up military, with a dad who’s still serving.
While I was visiting my parents over Thanksgiving, he was excited to show me a new recruiting video featuring some of his people, in a real-life scenario where they stop a piece of debris from colliding with a satellite. My dad doesn’t tweet, but the fact that he was excited about a video showing the real inner-workings of what we monitor in outer space suggested to me something beyond pride in his team. It dovetails with one of the reasons General McKinley gave for his tweeting habit.
MC3 William Selby and DoD Public Affairs chief Price Floyd share tips on keeping you and your family safe when using social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, and how personal activity can affect your reputation as well as operations security.
Defense Department Public Affairs chief Price Floyd talks about changing the DoD’s communications operations and getting feedback from the American public.
Gov 2.0 Radio hosts Lauren Vargas and Lindy Kyzer in a discussion of how the modern military is using Web 2.0 tools to fulfill its mission.
Live feeds from all branches of the U.S. Military are now available on GovFresh:
