Welcome to the State Department's first-ever blog, Dipnote. As a communicator for the Department, I have the opportunity to do my fair share of talking on a daily basis. With the launch of Dipnote, we are hoping to start a dialogue with the public. More than ever, world events affect our daily lives--what we see and hear, what we do, and how we work. I hope Dipnote will provide you with a window into the work of the people responsible for our foreign policy, and will give you a chance to be active participants in a community focused on some of the great issues of our world today.
With Dipnote we are going to take you behind the scenes at the State Department and bring you closer to the personalities of the Department. We are going to try and break through some of the jargon and talk about how we operate around the world.
We invite you to participate in this community, and I am looking forward to stepping away from my podium every now and then into the blogosphere. Let the conversation begin.
Also see the DoS Video / Audio page and YouTube channel.
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No offense, but in a world where more than half of the polity functions in "populist" mode, names and brands have a meaning. Thus, while I am hoping for something good out of the blog, "losers announce themselves early" is just about what's happened with the name.
However, their first question to the public on Nuclear Technology is right out of the chute with "confrontational".
Dipnote is shortspeak for "Diplomatic Note" according to their web site. I'll give them a pass on this one. Let's wait and see if this blog becomes yet another means to spew "we want to be buddies with everybody in the world and love everyone and flowers are pretty and so is sunshine" State Department-speak, or if it is a real life, real time exchange of hard and confrontive ideas.
Time will tell the story, not the name of the blog. In the battle of ideas, losers announce themselves early on.
Okay. I see someone beat me to it. Either someone up at state is an idiot in PR or they thought they were being funny.
"Dipnote"?
Good lord. Why didn't they just call it "Idiots Blog"?
Branding, people. Don't they have any fifth avenue advertisement agencies on the rolodex they could have consulted?