Clinton's High-Tech Diplomatic Message
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing technology early in her tenure. She recently posted her first entry on Dipnote, the State Department's official blog and is participating in a new online forum, "Ask the Secretary." She also launched an internal agency Web site, "The Sounding Board," to solicit feedback from department staff. "There is no doubt in my mind that we have barely scratched the surface as to what we can use to communicate with people around the world, and in fact, to use them [new technologies] as tools...to further our own work and be smart about it," Clinton said at a town hall meeting earlier this month.
"There are legitimate concerns about security, but I believe we cannot just take that at face value and stop thinking about it. We've got to figure out how we're going to be smarter about using technology," she said. Clinton also cited social networking site Facebook as an example. "For everybody who is applying for a visa, you just should know that the State Department is on the watch here for Facebook," she said. In her Dipnote post, she said she intends to take advantage of new social media tools during her travels around the world "so the State Department can share its diplomatic work with a broader audience." "I invite you to use these tools and become a part of this conversation," she told blog readers.
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