by mkhmarketin (cc) A quick post about Twitter and the restriction that the company has chosen to put on its services regarding the number of people you as a user can follow. I guess this is kind of a Twitter hack without actually hacking or breaking the system. Twitter is by nature a non-reciprocal social network, where you can follow people/companies/media without them having to grant you permission or without following you back (Facebook has since copied this in adding a follow-function on their service). *this is true re public accounts, private account you need to be granted permission...

Fra den rigtige Dyrehave. Taget af Risager fra Flickr. CC As invited to on Twtter, Politiko-tweep-up tomorrow afternoon at for the politically minded at dyrehavenkbh.dk from 4.00 pm. Find the location through Google maps. The idea is to meet the nice and interesting people, you’ve had discussions with on Twitter about politics, whether it be Danish, EU, British,  German or what ever interests you. No need to sign up or anything – just come along, everyone is welcome. We’ll be the ones talking a lot, and using smartphones a lot. And if you don’t find us then DM @karmel80 or...

No more room for hand baggage.   “There is no more room for trolley bags, they will have to be checked-in. So please remove your lap-top computer, iPad and other valuables or fragile items to bring on board.” The supervisor of my EasyJet flight from London Gatwick to Copenhagen on a Friday afternoon made more or less this announcement after about 4/5 of the passengers had boarded the air plane. I had followed the long list of rules and tricks for getting as far as the gate as easily as possible. When booking my flight I had given EasyJet my mobile phone number and my email. I had not asked...

I am looking forward to reading this article: Futures for Diplomacy: Integrative Diplomacy in the 21st Century by Jan Melissen, Shaun Riordan, Paul Sharp en Brian Hocking  [EN] Rapport in , The Hague, The Clingendael Institute, 18 October 2012 ***** I think I should have a look at this article from 2008 Engagement: Public Diplomacy in a Globalised World   2008 Collection of essays, commissioned by Jim Murphy MP (FCO Minister for Europe): “[Objective is] is to generate debate and stimulate thinking on this issue in a way which will inform and inspire policy-makers. The individual...

Here is a list of books and articles, which write about or give a good introduction to the concept of Public Diplomacy. Please let me and others know in the comments if you have any recommendations. Thank you. I am reading and using this recent book/casestudy “New Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century – A comparative study of policy and practice”A good recent case study / introduction by James Pamment from Karlstadt University. First 3 chapters cover Introduction, methodology, origins, changes and perspectives: A bit theoretic for me, but had many good points and good...

Sometimes you hear or read something, and just think yes exactly that is what I would have said if  I was more articulate. Watching Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter talk about how Twitter has changed the way she gets news and interacts with different interests groups, made me think that. On the video Professor Slaughter says: Twitter has changed the way I consume news … Social media allows you to construct different communities … On twitter you can be part of all of those. … Create customised information communities. Getting real time links to articles you would never...

When I was at the Danish embassy in London, I received a tweet from a close friend pointing me to a story by the Guardian, this meant that we were able to repond quickly and calm some nerves online while we got a response to the story from back home in Copenhagen. Here is a storify of the media and blog coverage. The tweets unfortunately are a bit harder to find. But I will try to add them later. [View the story “The story about the Danish Marmite \”ban\”” on Storify] The story about the Danish Marmite "ban" The story about the so-called Danish Marmite ban...