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Public Library Features Army Captain’s Blog
Cheryl Napsha, the director of the William P. Faust Public Library in Westland Michigan, persuaded an Army Captain who is stationed in Baghdad to write a blog about his experiences and features it on the library's Web site, westland.lib.mi.us. Captain Adrian Massey, who is from Michigan, posts to the blog about twice a week. Massey is the author of a book of poems titled "A Soldier's Poetic Response: A Slice of his Life." The blog itself is at poetadrianmassey.blogspot.com/.
- Library shows another side of war in Iraq, By Cecil Angel, Detroit Free Press, February 13, 2008.
AIDS.gov blog on how to use new media to fight AIDS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of AIDS Policy website AIDS.gov. has recently launched a blog blog.aids.gov for discussions of effective ways of using new media tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Each Tuesday morning they post information from an interview with leading new media and HIV/AIDS professionals, summarize the interview and reflect on ways AIDS.gov and others can implement new media. They invite comments!
Continue readingThe Transportation Security Administration has a blog
Yes it's true. The Transportation Security Administration, those people who xray your suitcase and make you take your shoes off at the airport, has started a blog called Evolution of Security with the blog description "Terrorists Evolve. Threats Evolve. Security Must Stay Ahead. You Play A Part.
And it's (gasp) clever! Take for example the opening sentence of a Feb. 1 post: "Throughout the ages, there have been many unanswered questions that continue to baffle the human race. Who built Stonehenge? Is there life on other planets? Why does the TSA make me place my liquids in a clear sealable baggie?" There are even a couple of videos about why they do what they do, and they promise more. Transparency and humor from the government. Thank you. I'm so pleased that I won't even ask about the mascara they stole appropriated from my toiletry bag last year. Continue reading
Conversations, Not Memos
Last week saw the launch of a new blog, the Ideas for Development blog. Authors include the Director General of the World Trade Organization, the President of the African Development Bank, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and other A-list types. A quick scan of the posts (why are there no dates on the landing page?) shows big chunks of text with no hyperlinks. This tells me that it's a one-way conversation. A blog is not a memo distribution system. A blog is an online conversation.
And speaking of conversations, James Jacobs responds to my World Library post.
Moving on in the blogosphere, Simon Johnson, Director of Research for the International Monetary Fund, launched a blog last week. Yes, this is the second blog launched by the IMF in the past month. "Strange days indeed".
Finally, a short requiem for the IFC's Innovations in Emerging Markets blog, which appears to have died over the summer. I am sad because these folks, along with the PSD blog, were the ones who introduced blogging to our IFI community. The fact that the IFC let this blog die tells me we still have a ways to go in convincing organizations of the benefits of blogging.
Continue readingThe IMF Starts Blogging
The International Monetary Fund launched its very first blog yesterday; the Public Financial Management blog. Some blurbage on this new blog:
The PFM blog aims at sharing the IMF staff's vast experience with PFM practitioners in Ministries of Finance and other fiscal agencies, academia, students, non-governmental organizations, as well as with the general public. It will also feature current news, resources and ideas about public financial management systems, their operation and improvement, and their contribution to economic growth and achieving national objectives, including economic and financial stability.
There will probably be more to come. The new managing director of the IMF (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) has been blogging since last year. He even set up a blog for his campaign to become MD.
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