Archive for 'fco'
British Ambassadors' blogging excellence
It's almost ten years since I left the Foreign Office, but it's always nice to be back. This time, I'm a guest at a roundtable seminar featuring some of their - actually, to be fair, some of the country's - leading bloggers. The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones chairs proceedings. I'm struck by the different takes on [...] read on »
Departmental blog platforms
When you think of 'official' blogging platforms inside government, the obvious example is the Foreign Office blogs site - headed of course by David Miliband, but featuring some truly remarkable contributions from various global 'hotspots' (Beijing, Kosovo, Zimbabwe). But it's not the only one out there, and it'll soon be joined by others. One which [...] read on »
Another new FCO blogger (ish)
The Foreign Office launched itself into blogging last September, with a couple of ministers and a couple of high-profile ambassadors joining in the fun. Indeed, I note they've been scoring some PR points with it: Jolyon Welsh, FCO's head of 'Public Diplomacy' presented a case study on it at a conference last week. But what [...] read on »