The document provides best practices for using social media platforms like Facebook, blogs, and Twitter for Army public affairs and engagement. It outlines guidelines for setting up official profiles and pages, including using .mil domains when possible and maintaining OPSEC. The document advises having a strategic plan, committing resources to maintain a presence, and being willing to engage with audiences. It also provides examples of effective military leaders' social media pages.
The document outlines the standard operating procedure for the Army Community Service's social media outreach initiative at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. The initiative aims to increase visibility of ACS activities and services, provide news and information to the community, and encourage feedback. The ACS Outreach Coordinator manages Facebook and blog platforms to engage the community, while staff contribute content. Responsibilities include adhering to social media policies and monitoring interactions to ensure appropriate content.
This document provides guidance on using social media for the Air Force. It includes tips for leaders, Airmen, families and an introduction to common social media platforms and trends. Leaders are encouraged to use social media to connect with audiences and share stories. Airmen should represent core values and be cautious of sensitive information. Families can use social media to support Airmen but should avoid oversharing details. The document also covers hashtags, geotagging and telling the Air Force story on social media.
This document establishes the Department of Defense policy for responsible and effective use of internet-based capabilities including social networking services. It applies to all DoD components and authorized NIPRNET users. The policy configures NIPRNET to provide access to internet capabilities, continues to defend against network threats, and prohibits access to prohibited content. All use of internet capabilities must comply with ethics regulations and guidelines in the attachments regarding official presences, official use, records management, and limited personal use.
Presidential Memo - Social Media and the Paperwork Reduction ActDepartment of Defense
This memorandum clarifies that the Paperwork Reduction Act does not apply to many uses of social media and web-based interactive technologies by federal agencies. It explains that general solicitations for public comments, public meetings conducted virtually, and activities like allowing users to rate or comment on posts are excluded from the PRA's requirements. The memorandum provides guidance on when activities involving these technologies would be considered information collections subject to the PRA. It aims to promote more open and flexible interaction between agencies and the public while ensuring compliance with relevant laws and policies.
La gerente general le envía un memorando a la secretaria general llamándole la atención por llegar tarde a trabajar más de dos veces durante la semana sin justificación. Le recuerda que según las normas de la empresa los empleados deben iniciar labores a las 7:00 AM con un máximo de cinco minutos de retardo y que si vuelve a presentarse la situación podría perder su cargo, ya que los retardos se han presentado durante varios meses.
This document discusses best practices for using social media in a military context. It provides statistics on Facebook usage and outlines Department of Defense policy and guidelines for social media use. Recommendations include having a single command presence, developing a content plan, and being prepared to respond in a crisis by communicating information and correcting misinformation across all channels. The document concludes by addressing privacy settings, impersonation policies, and contact information.
The document provides best practices for using social media platforms like Facebook, blogs, and Twitter for Army public affairs and engagement. It outlines guidelines for setting up official profiles and pages, including using .mil domains when possible and maintaining OPSEC. The document advises having a strategic plan, committing resources to maintain a presence, and being willing to engage with audiences. It also provides examples of effective military leaders' social media pages.
The document outlines the standard operating procedure for the Army Community Service's social media outreach initiative at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. The initiative aims to increase visibility of ACS activities and services, provide news and information to the community, and encourage feedback. The ACS Outreach Coordinator manages Facebook and blog platforms to engage the community, while staff contribute content. Responsibilities include adhering to social media policies and monitoring interactions to ensure appropriate content.
This document provides guidance on using social media for the Air Force. It includes tips for leaders, Airmen, families and an introduction to common social media platforms and trends. Leaders are encouraged to use social media to connect with audiences and share stories. Airmen should represent core values and be cautious of sensitive information. Families can use social media to support Airmen but should avoid oversharing details. The document also covers hashtags, geotagging and telling the Air Force story on social media.
This document establishes the Department of Defense policy for responsible and effective use of internet-based capabilities including social networking services. It applies to all DoD components and authorized NIPRNET users. The policy configures NIPRNET to provide access to internet capabilities, continues to defend against network threats, and prohibits access to prohibited content. All use of internet capabilities must comply with ethics regulations and guidelines in the attachments regarding official presences, official use, records management, and limited personal use.
Presidential Memo - Social Media and the Paperwork Reduction ActDepartment of Defense
This memorandum clarifies that the Paperwork Reduction Act does not apply to many uses of social media and web-based interactive technologies by federal agencies. It explains that general solicitations for public comments, public meetings conducted virtually, and activities like allowing users to rate or comment on posts are excluded from the PRA's requirements. The memorandum provides guidance on when activities involving these technologies would be considered information collections subject to the PRA. It aims to promote more open and flexible interaction between agencies and the public while ensuring compliance with relevant laws and policies.
La gerente general le envía un memorando a la secretaria general llamándole la atención por llegar tarde a trabajar más de dos veces durante la semana sin justificación. Le recuerda que según las normas de la empresa los empleados deben iniciar labores a las 7:00 AM con un máximo de cinco minutos de retardo y que si vuelve a presentarse la situación podría perder su cargo, ya que los retardos se han presentado durante varios meses.
This document discusses best practices for using social media in a military context. It provides statistics on Facebook usage and outlines Department of Defense policy and guidelines for social media use. Recommendations include having a single command presence, developing a content plan, and being prepared to respond in a crisis by communicating information and correcting misinformation across all channels. The document concludes by addressing privacy settings, impersonation policies, and contact information.
This document discusses invasive species and their impacts. It acknowledges that invasive species pose significant challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD) by threatening military training lands and activities. The document provides background on invasive species and their costs, outlines key issues for military installation commanders to consider regarding invasive species, and summarizes Executive Order 13112 which created the National Invasive Species Council and reinforces DoD's role in addressing invasive species.
The document outlines the Department of Defense's strategy for operating in cyberspace. It discusses 5 strategic initiatives: 1) treating cyberspace as an operational domain; 2) employing new defense operating concepts like active cyber defense and network resilience; 3) partnering with other government agencies and the private sector; 4) building international partnerships; and 5) leveraging innovation through cyber workforce development. The strategy aims to organize, train, and equip DoD to operate effectively in cyberspace while addressing growing cyber threats from state and non-state actors.
The document outlines the Department of Defense's strategy for operating in cyberspace. It discusses 5 strategic initiatives: 1) treating cyberspace as an operational domain; 2) employing new defense operating concepts like active cyber defense and network resilience; 3) partnering with other government agencies and the private sector; 4) building international partnerships; and 5) developing an exceptional cyber workforce through training and innovation. The strategy aims to help the DoD organize for, defend, and leverage opportunities in cyberspace while managing threats from state and non-state actors.
The Department of Defense cares about endangered species for two main reasons: 1) to comply with the Endangered Species Act and avoid critical habitat designations that could restrict military training, and 2) to meet the requirements of the Sikes Act which mandates that DoD assess natural resources, complete management plans, and coordinate with wildlife agencies to manage habitat for species. The DoD natural resources mission is to enable military training while providing habitat, achieving both national defense and conservation goals through extensive stewardship efforts across military lands.
The document provides a national security space strategy for the United States. It outlines that space is becoming increasingly congested, contested, and competitive as more countries develop space capabilities. The strategy aims to promote responsible use of space, provide improved US space capabilities, partner with other responsible entities, prevent aggression against US space infrastructure, and prepare for degraded space operations. It will implement these strategic approaches through coordinated planning across government agencies to maintain US advantages in space.
Strengthening Our Military Families - Meeting America's Commitment January 2011Department of Defense
The document outlines the US government's plan to strengthen support for military families. The first priority is to enhance the overall well-being and psychological health of military families. Initiatives include increasing behavioral health services through prevention and community integration, improving awareness of psychological fitness, protecting families from financial exploitation, eliminating homelessness, ensuring substance abuse treatment, and making courts more responsive to military families' needs.
FY 2010 MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE (MURI) – SELECTED PR...Department of Defense
This document lists 30 research topics that received MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) funding. Each topic includes the lead research institution, participating institutions, and the principal investigator. The topics cover a wide range of scientific areas including optics, autonomous systems, biofuels, polymers, computer vision, and more. The projects involve collaboration between universities, with some including international partners, to conduct fundamental research.
This document provides an overview of social media and guidelines for its appropriate use by service members. It discusses how social media can be harnessed for command information and media outreach but notes that OPSEC and UCMJ still apply online. Specific tips are provided, such as staying within one's area of expertise, being mindful of what is said about the chain of command, and educating family on privacy settings. Popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are also described.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides safety tips for using social networks, email, and the internet. The tips include never sharing private contact information publicly, carefully managing privacy settings, considering how content may be perceived before posting, being wary of third party applications accessing profile information, reporting any site abuses, and exercising caution with unsolicited emails or requests for private information. Basic computer security practices like scanning removable media and attachments are also recommended.
The document is a briefing from the Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security about social networking cyber security awareness. It discusses what social networking is, security concerns with social networking, examples of security issues in the news, and provides guidance on how to protect the Department and oneself while using social networking. The briefing covers topics like maintaining privacy settings, securing accounts, avoiding phishing attacks, and being aware of what is posted online.
Here are the key steps to using Twitter summarized in 3 sentences:
To tweet, enter text in the text box on your homepage and click "Tweet"; to delete a tweet, scroll over it and click "delete." Retweeting allows you to share another user's tweet by typing "RT" and their username. Direct messages allow private communication with other users by starting a message with "D" and their username.
1) Twitter is a free social media platform that allows users to post short messages called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 characters in length.
2) Users follow other accounts and see their tweets in their timeline. When a user posts a tweet, it goes out to their followers.
3) To create an account, a user provides a username, display name, email, profile photo and other optional information like location in their profile settings.
The document provides tips for using YouTube's video editor to combine, trim, and add soundtracks to multiple uploaded videos. It describes how to drag and drop clips into the editing bar, trim videos using scissors icons, and add audio tracks from YouTube's library. Statistics on views, demographics, and video popularity can be found using the Insight tool. The document also includes recommendations for video formats, resolutions, frame rates, and codecs for optimal uploading and playback on YouTube. General tips suggest having relevant content, producing your own videos, adding subtitles, and updating videos weekly.
Customizing your YouTube channel involves adjusting settings, themes, modules, and featured content. You can add a name, tags, and background image. Modules allow selecting what sections to display like comments and subscribers. Featured content includes choosing a featured video and whether to display videos in player or grid view. Comments for both channels and videos can be set to require moderator approval.
The document discusses how different military organizations use YouTube. The 129th Rescue Wing uploads videos of combat exercises with international partners. The 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion uploaded a slideshow of promotions. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit subscribes to other Marine videos to create contacts and foster community. The Navy JAG office uses their channel to showcase self-produced videos depicting real life as a JAG.
This document discusses how social technologies can enable open innovation in government in three key ways:
1) Crowdsourcing, by allowing governments to distribute problems to the public to drive innovation from diverse sources. Examples given are IdeaScale and UserVoice tools.
2) Intra-government collaboration, by enhancing speed, scope and reliability of information sharing between agencies through wikis, collaborative tools and immersive virtual environments.
3) Citizen science, by engaging the public to help analyze and apply government data through applications, mashups and analytical tools built from open data on sites like Data.gov. Social technologies will play a critical role in maximizing the value of open government data.
This document provides instructions for creating an official YouTube channel and uploading videos. It outlines how to create a YouTube account, set up a channel profile and privacy settings, create playlists, upload and describe videos, and add videos to playlists. The goal is to help users effectively organize and share videos on YouTube.
The document provides tips and examples for how military services can creatively use Facebook pages. It describes how the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit posts photos from humanitarian missions and how the 28th Bomb Wing Commander answers base questions. Other examples include the 1st Infantry Division advertising events, a Naval Medical Center announcing a contest, and a Marine Forces Reserve advertising bonuses. It then provides best practices such as grouping related content, keeping discussions centered around posted content, and cross-promoting across websites and social media platforms.
This document provides guidance on designing a Facebook fan page, including:
1. Adding basic information like a logo, customizing the wall and tabs, and setting the URL.
2. Adding applications and features like events, RSS feeds, polls, and a boxes tab with Static FBML to customize the page.
3. Using Insights to learn more about your fans and monitor your page's performance.
This document discusses invasive species and their impacts. It acknowledges that invasive species pose significant challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD) by threatening military training lands and activities. The document provides background on invasive species and their costs, outlines key issues for military installation commanders to consider regarding invasive species, and summarizes Executive Order 13112 which created the National Invasive Species Council and reinforces DoD's role in addressing invasive species.
The document outlines the Department of Defense's strategy for operating in cyberspace. It discusses 5 strategic initiatives: 1) treating cyberspace as an operational domain; 2) employing new defense operating concepts like active cyber defense and network resilience; 3) partnering with other government agencies and the private sector; 4) building international partnerships; and 5) leveraging innovation through cyber workforce development. The strategy aims to organize, train, and equip DoD to operate effectively in cyberspace while addressing growing cyber threats from state and non-state actors.
The document outlines the Department of Defense's strategy for operating in cyberspace. It discusses 5 strategic initiatives: 1) treating cyberspace as an operational domain; 2) employing new defense operating concepts like active cyber defense and network resilience; 3) partnering with other government agencies and the private sector; 4) building international partnerships; and 5) developing an exceptional cyber workforce through training and innovation. The strategy aims to help the DoD organize for, defend, and leverage opportunities in cyberspace while managing threats from state and non-state actors.
The Department of Defense cares about endangered species for two main reasons: 1) to comply with the Endangered Species Act and avoid critical habitat designations that could restrict military training, and 2) to meet the requirements of the Sikes Act which mandates that DoD assess natural resources, complete management plans, and coordinate with wildlife agencies to manage habitat for species. The DoD natural resources mission is to enable military training while providing habitat, achieving both national defense and conservation goals through extensive stewardship efforts across military lands.
The document provides a national security space strategy for the United States. It outlines that space is becoming increasingly congested, contested, and competitive as more countries develop space capabilities. The strategy aims to promote responsible use of space, provide improved US space capabilities, partner with other responsible entities, prevent aggression against US space infrastructure, and prepare for degraded space operations. It will implement these strategic approaches through coordinated planning across government agencies to maintain US advantages in space.
Strengthening Our Military Families - Meeting America's Commitment January 2011Department of Defense
The document outlines the US government's plan to strengthen support for military families. The first priority is to enhance the overall well-being and psychological health of military families. Initiatives include increasing behavioral health services through prevention and community integration, improving awareness of psychological fitness, protecting families from financial exploitation, eliminating homelessness, ensuring substance abuse treatment, and making courts more responsive to military families' needs.
FY 2010 MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE (MURI) – SELECTED PR...Department of Defense
This document lists 30 research topics that received MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) funding. Each topic includes the lead research institution, participating institutions, and the principal investigator. The topics cover a wide range of scientific areas including optics, autonomous systems, biofuels, polymers, computer vision, and more. The projects involve collaboration between universities, with some including international partners, to conduct fundamental research.
This document provides an overview of social media and guidelines for its appropriate use by service members. It discusses how social media can be harnessed for command information and media outreach but notes that OPSEC and UCMJ still apply online. Specific tips are provided, such as staying within one's area of expertise, being mindful of what is said about the chain of command, and educating family on privacy settings. Popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are also described.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides safety tips for using social networks, email, and the internet. The tips include never sharing private contact information publicly, carefully managing privacy settings, considering how content may be perceived before posting, being wary of third party applications accessing profile information, reporting any site abuses, and exercising caution with unsolicited emails or requests for private information. Basic computer security practices like scanning removable media and attachments are also recommended.
The document is a briefing from the Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security about social networking cyber security awareness. It discusses what social networking is, security concerns with social networking, examples of security issues in the news, and provides guidance on how to protect the Department and oneself while using social networking. The briefing covers topics like maintaining privacy settings, securing accounts, avoiding phishing attacks, and being aware of what is posted online.
Here are the key steps to using Twitter summarized in 3 sentences:
To tweet, enter text in the text box on your homepage and click "Tweet"; to delete a tweet, scroll over it and click "delete." Retweeting allows you to share another user's tweet by typing "RT" and their username. Direct messages allow private communication with other users by starting a message with "D" and their username.
1) Twitter is a free social media platform that allows users to post short messages called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 characters in length.
2) Users follow other accounts and see their tweets in their timeline. When a user posts a tweet, it goes out to their followers.
3) To create an account, a user provides a username, display name, email, profile photo and other optional information like location in their profile settings.
The document provides tips for using YouTube's video editor to combine, trim, and add soundtracks to multiple uploaded videos. It describes how to drag and drop clips into the editing bar, trim videos using scissors icons, and add audio tracks from YouTube's library. Statistics on views, demographics, and video popularity can be found using the Insight tool. The document also includes recommendations for video formats, resolutions, frame rates, and codecs for optimal uploading and playback on YouTube. General tips suggest having relevant content, producing your own videos, adding subtitles, and updating videos weekly.
Customizing your YouTube channel involves adjusting settings, themes, modules, and featured content. You can add a name, tags, and background image. Modules allow selecting what sections to display like comments and subscribers. Featured content includes choosing a featured video and whether to display videos in player or grid view. Comments for both channels and videos can be set to require moderator approval.
The document discusses how different military organizations use YouTube. The 129th Rescue Wing uploads videos of combat exercises with international partners. The 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion uploaded a slideshow of promotions. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit subscribes to other Marine videos to create contacts and foster community. The Navy JAG office uses their channel to showcase self-produced videos depicting real life as a JAG.
This document discusses how social technologies can enable open innovation in government in three key ways:
1) Crowdsourcing, by allowing governments to distribute problems to the public to drive innovation from diverse sources. Examples given are IdeaScale and UserVoice tools.
2) Intra-government collaboration, by enhancing speed, scope and reliability of information sharing between agencies through wikis, collaborative tools and immersive virtual environments.
3) Citizen science, by engaging the public to help analyze and apply government data through applications, mashups and analytical tools built from open data on sites like Data.gov. Social technologies will play a critical role in maximizing the value of open government data.
This document provides instructions for creating an official YouTube channel and uploading videos. It outlines how to create a YouTube account, set up a channel profile and privacy settings, create playlists, upload and describe videos, and add videos to playlists. The goal is to help users effectively organize and share videos on YouTube.
The document provides tips and examples for how military services can creatively use Facebook pages. It describes how the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit posts photos from humanitarian missions and how the 28th Bomb Wing Commander answers base questions. Other examples include the 1st Infantry Division advertising events, a Naval Medical Center announcing a contest, and a Marine Forces Reserve advertising bonuses. It then provides best practices such as grouping related content, keeping discussions centered around posted content, and cross-promoting across websites and social media platforms.
This document provides guidance on designing a Facebook fan page, including:
1. Adding basic information like a logo, customizing the wall and tabs, and setting the URL.
2. Adding applications and features like events, RSS feeds, polls, and a boxes tab with Static FBML to customize the page.
3. Using Insights to learn more about your fans and monitor your page's performance.