24th December 2012 London, UK
A year of digital diplomacy
Here are some of the social media highlights from the Foreign Office and its network of British embassies, high commissions and missions overseas during 2012 …
20th December 2012 Beirut, Lebanon
Lebanon 2012: Running to Stand Still
Each year, many ambassadors send Ministers a review of trends in their country, and thoughts on what lies ahead. To share the more candid elements would be a bit of digital transparency too far, but here is a redacted version of what I have just sent. You can read the rest when it is released […]
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11th December 2012 London, UK
Moving to GOV.UK
On Thursday, the Foreign Office will become one of several more ‘trailblazing’ Government Departments moving part of its publishing operation onto the new single government website GOV.UK. We will start by publishing our news, speeches, policies and corporate information on Inside Government. And by March 2013 we’ll be moving our travel advice,other consular information and […]
12th October 2012 London, UK
Digital Diplomacy in Beirut
Last week digital communicators from the Middle East, North Africa and our central communications teams in London and New Delhi met in Beirut – a unique chance for everyone to share the excellent work they’ve been doing and look at new opportunities.
2nd October 2012 Beirut, Lebanon
The Naked Diplomat
Tomorrow, we’re hosting in Beirut a conference on how diplomats can respond to the way in which social media is changing our work. We’ll be hosting a tweetup (#digiconflb) and drawing on the feedback so far on the FCO’s digital consultation. I was lucky to take part in a panel on social media during last […]
25th September 2012 London, UK
Digital Strategy: delivering FCO priorities
The Foreign Office is working up a Digital Strategy looking at how we can use digital to work more effectively and deliver more effectively for UK citizens.
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13th January 2012 Washington DC, USA
The Internet, Diplomacy, and My Mother
Long before I knew I was coming to DC, I saw Alec Ross, Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary Clinton, give a talk at the London School of Economics on foreign policy in the era of social media. He argued to an enthusiastic London audience that high speed Internet is the infrastructure of the 21st […]
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20th December 2011 Beirut, Lebanon
Social Media Changing Lives, and Lebanon
The theme of last week’s International Human Rights Day was the role that social media can play in highlighting and challenging human rights abuses. So I was excited to be invited to take part in the American University of Beirut’s conference on Social Media Changing Lives, put together by the excellent @mhijazi and his team. […]
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