Pentagon social media czar pushes Web 2.0, despite ban threat

Wired: Danger Room  08/03/2009

Whether the Pentagon opts to ban all Web 2.0 tools or not, Price Floyd, the military's new social networking czar, is pushing ahead with a wide array of Web 2.0 initiatives. His first act was to sign up the Pentagon for a Twitter account, under his name. He got blogs included in the military's influential "Early Bird" clipping service. Next up: a new Department of Defense Web site, launching in August. It "will have links to Facebook and Twitter. And at the right [of the site], people can vote on questions they'd like answered by the Secretary -- and they can do same thing [voting] on policy."

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