Catching Up With DoD

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, 2009 AT 6:09 PM Catching Up With DoD Posted by Molly Fedick

Roxie Merritt, Director of Community Relations and Public Liaison at the Department of Defense, reports back from the Alliance of Youth Movements. She is down there with four members of her team, where she's been meeting with leaders from all over the world, all of whom have found success employing social networking tools in their businesses and organizations.

Taking a break from the Mexico sunshine (the conference is in Mexico City), she shared some of her observations on the DoD blog:

With social media being increasingly used across DoD, we were invited to attend the Alliance of Youth Movements to learn from other organizations that have successfully used Facebook, Twitter, Howcast, and other online tools to communicate with their own communities and the world at large. We’ve had the opportunity to meet many dynamic individuals who have been eager to engage with us about the transformative opportunities of their on-line tools. Jason Liebman, co-founder and CEO of Howcast and Jack Dorsey, Chairman and Co-Founder of Twitter took a lot of time to share possibilities for the future of DoD communication and stopped for a quick photo op before attending a panel on Using Social Media for Anti-Violence. We look forward to continued partnerships with everyone we’ve met here as we develop the DoD Social Media Hub that will be launched in November on Defense.gov to help the DoD community use social media safely and effectively.

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2009/10/digital-technology-summit-connects-people-from-around-the-world/

Digital Technology Summit Connects People from Around the World
By Roxie Merritt
Director of Community Relations and Public Liaison, Department of Defense

Valerie Miller, Marianne Oliva, Katie Ingebretson, Jack Dorsey, Roxie Merritt and Jason Liebman at the 2009 Alliance of Youth Movements Summit. Photo by Marianne Oliva.

I’m at the Alliance of Youth Movements in Mexico City with four members of my Community Relations team. The conference is supported by the U.S. State Department and seeks to bring together organizations and leaders from around the world who have found success in employing new media and social networking tools to increase awareness and broaden support for their causes. Attendees include humanitarian relief organizations as well as groups dealing with domestic issues, such as suicide prevention.

We’ve had the opportunity to meet many dynamic individuals who have been eager to engage with us about the transformative opportunities of their on-line tools. Jason Liebman, co-founder and CEO of Howcast and Jack Dorsey, Chairman and Co-Founder of Twitter took a lot of time to share possibilities for the future of DoD communication and stopped for a quick photo op before attending a panel on Using Social Media for Anti-Violence. We look forward to continued partnerships with everyone we’ve met here as we develop the DoD Social Media Hub that will be launched in November on Defense.gov to help the DoD community use social media safely and effectively.

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By cmccluney – October 16, 2009

WHAT IS THIS????? Alliance of Youth Movement

U.S. Will Ask Youth To Fight Crime and Terrorism Online

November 26, 2008 by national
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The US State Department announced plans on Monday to promote online youth groups as a new and powerful way to fight crime, political oppression and terrorism.

Drawing inspiration from a movement against FARC rebels in Colombia, the State Department is joining forces with Facebook, Google, MTV, Howcast and others in New York City next week to get the “ball rolling.”

It said 17 groups from South Africa, Britain and the Middle East which have an online presence like the “Million Voices Against the FARC” will attend a conference at Columbia University Law School from December 3-5.

Observers from seven organizations that do not have an online presence such as groups from Iraq and Afghanistan will attend. There will also be remote participants from Cuba.

They will forge an “ALLIANCE of YOUTH MOVEMENT,” said James Glassman, under secretary of state for public diplomacy.

“The idea is put all these people together, share best practices, produce a manual that will be accessible online and in print to any group that wants to build a youth empowerment organization to push back against violence and oppression around the world,” he told reporters.

The conference will be streamed by MTV and Howcast, he said.

The list of organizations due to attend include the Burma Global Action Network, a human rights movement spurred into action by the ruling junta’s crackdown on monks and other pro-democracy protestors last year.

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/tag/alliance-of-youth-movement/

Wearing a new hat:

James K. Glassman

Journalist, economic analyst, entrepreneur, speaker, financial columnist and book author, and diplomat. He is president of the World Growth Institute, which promotes global economic development

14 May 2009
Three Hopeful Words

For those who despair of the future of public diplomacy, I have three hopeful words: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The new Secretary of State is a great public diplomat herself. She understands the importance of connecting ordinary Americans with ordinary foreigners. She brims with enthusiasm. And, unlike others in this administration, she is not reluctant to adopt and extend programs begun in the Bush Administration. A good example is the Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM) – the organization that came out of the meeting we convened in New York last December that brought together young representatives of global online anti-violence and pro-social-change groups with top technologists from U.S. firms like Google, Facebook, AT&T, and Howcast.

In a superb speech yesterday at NYU’s commencement exercises (in Yankee Stadium!), she alluded to the original group that got the AYM ball rolling: the Million Voices Against the FARC movement, founded in 2007 in Colombia by an unemployed computer technician named Oscar Morales. It was an applause line.

Her point was that diplomacy is changing, and she urged the young graduates to participate.

“When I was graduating so many years ago,” she said, “diplomacy was the domain of privileged men working behind closed doors. Today, our diplomats are not limited, and our diplomacy is no longer confined to the State Department or our embassies. We are laying the foundation for 21st century statecraft. Where? In the classrooms of NYU, in the board rooms of the businesses of this great city, in the halls of academia, in the operating rooms of our great hospitals. We are looking for those personal commitments and connections, and that is where all of you come in.”

This was not just rhetoric. Secretary Clinton announced that “over the next year the State Department will be creating Virtual Student Foreign Service Internships to harness the energy of a rising generation of citizen diplomats. Working from college and university campuses, American students will partner with our embassies abroad to conduct digital diplomacy that reflects the realities of the networked world.”

You can learn more about the program on the State Department website, right here. The write-up, as you’ll see, is a bit sketchy. But it’s actually a good sign that the Secretary is willing to launch a fine idea and fill in details later. She did tell graduates that they “don’t have to wait for us to create a new program,” and referred them to Kiva, the website that links microcredit borrowers with lenders around the world.

http://www.jameskglassman.com/?p=138#more-138

The First Alliance of Youth Movements Summit

From December 3-5, 2008 the First Alliance of Youth Movements Summit took place at Columbia Law School in New York City. Streamed live on Howcast.com and MTV.com, the Summit brought together 17 inspiring leaders who shared how they used online tools to create social change.

The Summit was organized by Howcast Media with additional support from Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, Columbia Law School, the U.S. Department of State and Access 360 Media.

Speakers at the Summit included:

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Whoopi Goldberg, Host of ABC’s “The View”
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Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook
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James K. Glassman, Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State
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Oscar Morales, Founder, One Million Voices Against the FARC
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The Obama Campaign’s New Media Team
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Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Panel topics included How To Mobilize in a Challenging Environment, How To Use Online Media to Create Social Change and Building a Global Movement. View the whole agenda, watch the discussions and view the presentations here.

These discussions contributed to the construction of Creating Grassroots Movements for Change: A Field Manual and the launch of a new organization, The Alliance of Youth Movements that will work to help other organizations use online technology to advance their causes.

The Summit also launched the Youth Movements Hub where emerging youth organizations can access and share “how-to” guides and tips on how to use social-networking and other technologies to promote freedom and justice and counter violence, extremism and oppression. Including instructional videos and text guides, links to related online resources and discussion forums for sharing experiences, ideas and advice, the hub will remain the central resource for The Alliance of Youth Movements.

To celebrate the success of the summit and these inspirational leaders, the participants were honored at a red-carpet event with entertainment celebrities, business leaders, and civil society figures at the former home of MTV’s Total Request Live (“TRL”) overlooking Times Square as well at the Google Headquarters in New York.

http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/summit

The Second Alliance of Youth Movement Summit

Partner with Alliance of Youth Movement for 2009 Summit
Posted by TakePart on October 14, 2009 at 7:24 pm

On October 15, the 2009 Alliance of Youth Movement Summit will bring together individuals, government officials, academics entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders from over 15 countries including Columbia, India, Saudi Arabia, and UK to discuss best practices and ways to use social media and technology to further grassroots movements and causes. The majority of the speakers are youth activists and leaders, or nonprofit/technology experts, making for an awesome international dialogue.

Speakers include Carlos Pascual (United States Ambassador to Mexico), Jason Liebman (CEO, Howcast), Jack Dorsey (Founder, Twitter) Jared Cohen (U.S. Department of State), Steve Grove (Head of News and Politics at YouTube) and both executive directors, creative directors, writers and marketing managers for organizations including Full Court Peace, Invisible Children, Genocide Intervention Network, Stand, Witness, Blue State Digital and Sri Lanka Unites.

The conference will be livestreaming and Alliance of Youth Movements is looking for bloggers to help spread the word and partner in providing coverage to their communities. Key speakers at the AYM Summit will answer questions from online submissions during their speeches and panels, and via the widget below, anyone can submit a question then tune in to see it answered by watching the live stream from Mexico City.

Beginning 8:15am on October 15th through 3:30pm on October 16th you can watch the Live Stream of the 2009 AYM Summit.

http://www.takepart.com/blog/2009/10/14/parter-with-alliance-of-youth-movement-for-2009-summit/

http://www.howcast.com/system/hubs/5507896/aoym-hub.png?1248814848

http://youthmovements.howcast.com/
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Cindy: Doesn’t all of this this strike you as ODD? the organization is not even 1 year old. And notice there are trying to say it is a holdover from the Bush Adm. lol. Started in Dec 2008

Department of Defense??

from post #1 -— quoting from the White House blog

“Roxie Merritt, Director of Community Relations and Public Liaison at the Department of Defense, reports back from the Alliance of Youth Movements. She is down there with four members of her team, where she’s been meeting with leaders from all over the world, all of whom have found success employing social networking tools in their businesses and organizations.

Taking a break from the Mexico sunshine (the conference is in Mexico City), she shared some of her observations on the DoD blog:

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