Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and other social networking organizations seem to have hit every facet of society from the golden age set to military personnel.
In fact, the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) is the first combatant command to start using social networks in order to reach more people and garner interest in military practices, the Department of Defense reveals.
One commander, Sarah Nagelmann raised the idea of a blog to her communications director and quickly realized that the way to make it most authentic and natural was to write it herself under her own name.
'We are looking to provide information and to create dialogue,” she says of the Southcom's use of social media. ' What we have enabled is a way for others who do not know how to interact with Southcom to send us comments, questions, thoughts, reactions to any number of things.'
In a way, practices such as this take the mystery out of military operations and make the organization more accessible to civilians.
The Southcom project intended to engage military individuals in the now vibrant social networking world and advises that others in their position decide what they want out of their blog and how it aims to facilitate connections.
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