10 January 2009

USAF: Air Force develops a positive strategy to deal with negative bloggers


Hat tip to the Air Force Pundit, here...

"Good idea.. By Noah Shachtman Wired Magazine January 06, 2009 | Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don't be surprised. They're just following the service's new "counter-blogging" flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force's public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle "trolls," "ragers" -- and even well-informed online writers, too. It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force," Captain David Faggard says. Over the last couple of years, the armed forces have tried, in fits and starts, to connect more with bloggers. The Army and the Office of the Secretary of Defense now hold regular "bloggers' roundatbles" with generals, colonels, and key civilian leaders."

The origional article here...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great post. I didn't know the AF actually had a plan.