At the Foreign Office, we’ve made a small song and dance about the 3,000th tweet of the @foreignoffice twitter account. I can hide such vanity by noting that the 3,000th tweet is no morimportant than the 2,999 or the 3,001 (and less so if this blog is the subject). Yet it feels like a milestone,Read… Read more »
You may not have heard much of Twingly , but I’m happy to help change that in some small way. Twingly is, basically, a blog search engine with faceted, social search for the blogosphere. And if that’s a bit geeky and doesn’t mean much, then the traffic impresses – they tell us it currently servesRead… Read more »
Providing accurate and timely travel advice is one of the key functions of the Foreign Office, and one of the key drivers of our web presence. Our Travel and living abroad section provides background notes for travellers on every country in the world, including timely alerts of the implications of all sorts of issues whichRead… Read more »
Every year, the digital team at the UK’s Foreign Office reviews how well the post sites are doing, or not, as part of an annual health-check of our capabilities, which ties up with the not-taken-up-often-enough opportunity to talk to the editors of the FCO’s 256 sites .The post sites are critical to the digital deliveryRead… Read more »
For those eager to get over the heady excitement of the post on What Is Public Diplomacy, here’s part two: What Next For Public Diplomacy For those catching up, from 7-9 June 2010, Wilton Park hosted a conference for government practitioners, academics and other experts from around the world to discuss public diplomacy policy andRead… Read more »
From 7-9 June 2010, Wilton Park hosted a conference for government practitioners, academics and other experts from around the world to discuss public diplomacy policy and practice. The conference was opened by Jeremy Browne MP, UK Minister of State for Public Diplomacy, and Judith McHale, US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.Read… Read more »
The Foreign Office is developing an increasing presence on Facebook – which is as it should be. Facebook is, after all, the third largest country in the world with 500 million inhabitants. Or it would be, if it were a country. You know what I mean. The reason is pretty simple – we have aRead… Read more »
It was almost two weeks ago that the Prime Minister asked me to join the new coalition Government as Minister for Europe at the Foreign Office. Within two hours I was in my new office meeting my staff and planning briefings… Thus David Lidington, the new minister for Europe in Britain’s coalition government begins hisRead… Read more »
And if NPT RevCon and other acronyms mean anything to you, then you might be interested in the opinions gathered by the Foreign Office’s Amelia Bate as she monitors the conference in New York. She’s gathered the thoughts of some luminaries. We start with Susi Snyder, programme leader-Nuclear Disarmament, IKV Pax Christi Move on toRead… Read more »
As the post-election smoke clears, we’re launching a small experiment on the Foreign Office Global Conversations blogs. On a number of blogs (for now, mostly the US ones, such as this one), we’re adding the comment functionality of Facebook Connect. So for now, we have different mechanics on different blogs, but this is by wayRead… Read more »