The Pentagon and Public Engagement

  • May 23rd, 2010

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The Pentagon and Public Engagement: Price Floyd is the newly appointed Special Advisor for International Communication at the Department of Defense. He’s an active twitterer, a keynote speaker on social media and strategic communications at the Gov 2.0 Expo, and he joins us to talk about reaching young people with a public affairs message and how social media impacts massive organizations. “This has to be leadership driven,” he says. Our wide-ranging discussion about the changing global new media environment touches on public debates over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on newspaper Web sites, and mixed opinions on warfighters covering a Lady GaGa routine on YouTube.

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