The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Under Secretaries

Friday, March 30th 2012

Tara Sonenshine was confirmed Thursday night by the Senate, and she will probably take office officially early this week.  (She can be sworn in privately by some current official and begin work, even as a more formal ceremony is planned for a few weeks hence.)

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Brian E. Carlson

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Summary: An experienced public diplomacy officer, Ambassador Brian Carlson advises the InterMedia research organization on military and foreign affairs issues and serves the State Department as a senior inspector. For the last three years he was the State Department liaison to the Department of Defense on strategic communication.

 

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• Sonenshine
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Six Degrees of Separation: Now 4.7 Degrees of Proximity

Tuesday, November 29th 2011

Social media is a lot like the weather:  everyone talks about it, but very few are doing anything about it. 

The news that social science researchers have determined that the distance between friends seems to be shrinking in the digital age came as no surprise to millions of Facebook users.  And it did not come as news to public diplomacy practitioners.

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Brian E. Carlson

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Summary: An experienced public diplomacy officer, Ambassador Brian Carlson advises the InterMedia research organization on military and foreign affairs issues and serves the State Department as a senior inspector. For the last three years he was the State Department liaison to the Department of Defense on strategic communication.

 

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• Facebook
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• Obama in Brazil
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PD In Uniform

Friday, March 25th 2011

A new article in American Diplomacy, the non-profit journal published in association with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and edited by yours truly, "Public Diplomacy in Uniform" describes the current practice of PD abroad with an ever expanding role for the uniformed military.  Rachel Greenspan, a student of Council Member Ambassador Bill Rugh, wrote the piece.

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William P. Kiehl

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Bill Kiehl is founding President & CEO of PD Worldwide, consultants in international public affairs, higher education management, and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Kiehl is currently the Book Review Editor and editor emeritus of the journal American Diplomacy, published by the American Diplomacy Foundation in cooperation with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He served as Executive Director of the Public Diplomacy Council from February 2004 through April 2007. Dr. Kiehl has taught public diplomacy at the Foreign Service Institute and has lectured at a number of colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He holds his Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania; his dissertation was "The Influence of Campus Internationalization on Local Communities."

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