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Military Was Blocking Social Web To Protect Them From The Tweetin’ Taliban


tweetin taliban Military Was Blocking Social Web To Protect Them From The Tweetin TalibanOur military apparently had a policy in place that did not allow our men and women in Armed Services to use Social Media sites (that is an amazing thing for the military to even waste time on enforcing as a rule) …but it seems that they’ve had some change of heart. Read more below…

Wired’s Danger Room blog has obtained a copy of a May 18 operations order from the Army’s 93rd Signal Brigade directing information managers on domestic military bases to allow personnel to access Facebook, Vimeo, Delicious, Flickr and Twitter.

Read the entire article at  http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/06/army_to_stop_blocking_some_soc.php

I still dont get the negative impact that using social media would’ve made… unless they were concerned the Taliban is on Twitter or North Korea has a Facebook Fan Page…maybe I should check LOL

G. Wayne Clayton is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Integerol LLC along with SocialMarketingExpert.org. He’s a former newspaper publisher and investigative journalist. He has been seen seen and heard on CNN, Fox News Talk radio, quoted in The Toronto Star and is a Guest Blogger on FastCompany.com.

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