Join the Association for Social Media and Higher Education for our inaugural event. As a group, we’re fascinated by the ways in which the U.S. Military adapts new technologies and tools to reach the public, provide better services to its members, and recruit new servicemen and women. Details below.

Trust and Authenticity in Social Media: The Case of the U.S. Military

WHEN: Thursday, November 12th at 3-4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street, NW, Room 602 (Google map)

The Association of Social Media and Higher Education (ASMH) invites you to a panel on the nature and role of social media in the military. The panelists, who include current and former U.S. military officers, will address the ways social media can be used effectively, efficiently and transparently to connect the military, civilian and veteran populations. The conversation will also address the ways Twitter, Facebook and blogs can:

  • offer a more nuanced view of military life;
  • generate public support for veterans;
  • serve as a support system for wounded soldiers;
  • increase transparency through social media;
  • build authentic dialog about military issues and defense policy.

Panelists:

- Moderator: Scott Talan (Twitter: @talan), director of communications, National Association Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and adjunct faculty member, GW

- Lindy Kyzer (@LindyKyzer, @USArmy), public affairs specialist at U.S. Army

- Steve Field (@fieldsteven), former spokesman, Pentagon, blogger, The D-Ring: Where the Military and New Media Collide

- Nicole Schwegman (@nicoleschwegman), former Navy Public Affairs Officer


RSVP here (and see full bios of the panelists): http://tinyurl.com/yc3tb3p


For live updates on Twitter, follow @JuliG or the hash tag #ASMH. For a live webcast of the event, click here.


The event is cosponsored by The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, Graduate School of Political Management and Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, and George Washington Today, GW’s official online news source.