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October 1, 2012 | NATO and Social Media: New Challenges Demand Aggressive Strategies

Yasser Abumuailek: Despite its re-conception after the fall of Communism to adapt to the new challenges of an ever-changing world, NATO is facing a new challenge it must master before it’s too late: winning the hearts and minds on the social media front.

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August 15, 2012 | Enhanced through Social Media

Editorial Team: Atlantic-community.org employs social media to reach a larger audience. Twitter in particular reaches people who are not necessarily members of the community. Here is a closer look at our followers and how we use the social media platform. How do you use Twitter and other social media?

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March 18, 2012 | NATO's Response to the Arab Spring: A New Public Diplomacy Approach

Arik Segal: The Arab Spring has introduced a new actor to Middle Eastern foreign policies: the people. NATO should recognize this change and design a new public diplomacy approach that will aim to understand the new liberated nations and increase engagement with them.

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March 1, 2012 | Sharing Values and Saving Money Through Citizen Ownership

Megan Ann Reiss: Through developing a strategic advertising campaign, NATO can instill ownership among its citizens and assure a strong future for the alliance. NATO must remind them of their shared values, advocate for diplomatic influence in decision making, and highlight the economic value of the organization.

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September 6, 2011 | Security Policies 2.0: Can Facebook, Twitter and Co Make an Impact?

Stefanie Babst: NATO has embraced the power of social media. The Alliance engages thousands in discussions on defense and security and these open, online debates have already borne fruit. Transatlantic policy is no longer the realm of an isolated elite: all citizens now have a chance to make an impact.

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July 15, 2011 | Boosted by Social Media

Editorial Team: Atlantic-community.org recently passed two milestones, breaking the 1000-‘like’ barrier on Facebook just days after tallying 1000 followers on Twitter.

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May 16, 2011 | Meet the Bloggers: NATO's Public Diplomacy and Social Media

Sascha Lohmann: Social media fundamentally transformed the way in which public diplomacy is conducted. Whereas elected governments can advance their objectives through the use of social media, the prospects for international organizations remain vague as they are accountable solely to their member states.

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September 23, 2010 | Public Support for NATO Remains Consistent

Stefanie Babst: Although a considerable degree of trust and confidence still exists for NATO, many people have difficulties relating it to the new security threats. In particular, the post-Cold War generation only has foggy ideas of NATO’s new missions and policies. In response, NATO is pursuing more open and transparent public diplomacy.

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March 9, 2010 | The New Public Diplomacy

Joseph S. Nye: The world of traditional power politics was typically about whose military or economy would win. In today’s information age, politics is also about whose “story” wins. Social media is an essential tool in public diplomacy, but can easily turn into credibility-killing propaganda when misused.

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February 5, 2010 | Social Media Challenges International Organizations This Article contains Flash-Video

Interview with Jeff Jarvis: The internet is putting power in the hands of global citizens. Large international organizations are missing opportunities to harness that power to improve relations with their constituents. Citizens need to continue to use this technology to create new “social assets”.

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February 2, 2010 | The Internet Revolutionizes Politics This Article contains Flash-Video

Interview with David Kirkpatrick: Facebook is already a powerful network to organize political protest and could contribute to the emergence of global political parties. Social Media might even create a global government. The technology is advanced, but the attitudes of the citizens need to catch up.

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January 29, 2010 | UNHCR: Tweets from the Edge This Article contains Flash-Video

Interview with Claudia Gonzalez: Social media is transforming how the UN relates humanitarian crises to the global public. In this interview, the former head of Public Relations and Special Projects in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees explains how Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other platforms have added a new dimension to their humanitarian work.

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February 14, 2012 | The American Left has Much to Teach Europe

Philiadelphia’s Occupy movement is the first to announce it will run for Congress. ++ There is a “spirit of opportunism” in the American Left, whereas there are only two socialists still governing in Europe. ++ The revival of the Left in the US has been enabled by popular use of technology, linking the personal to the political. ++ The European left is “tired, dull, top-down and moribund”, the

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February 1, 2011 | Egypt: The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Egyptian society is comprised of a wealthy ruling elite at the top, a small Islamic fundamentalist element at the bottom and in between, masses of unpoliticized ordinary citizens. ++ Despite the government’s recent decision to shut down the Internet, demonstrations continued unabated. ++ Notwithstanding recent hype about the impact of social media, “the uprising in Cairo is a very old-fashioned,

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