Pentagon social media czar pushes Web 2.0, despite ban threat

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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