small talk 2.0

La semaine derniere, le Departement de Formation du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres israelien a inaugure un nouveau cours : « Diplomatie a l’age des Media Sociaux » Ouvrir un cours special centre sur les Media Sociaux est un tout premier pas, non seulement pour notre ministere mais aussi pour tout le secteur public israelien. Le but principal de ce programme est la formation des diplomates a l’utilisation des outils propres aux media sociaux. Le cours comprend trois parties : 1. Connaissances de base est les outils fondamentaux propres aux Media Sociaux– reseaux sociaux, blogs, wikis, etc. 2. Revue d’ examples de Gouvernment 2.0 et Diplomatie 2.0 en Israel et dans le monde. 3. exercices pratiques sur l’usage des outils propres aux Media Sociaux dans le travail diplomatique. Je vous tiendrai au courant quant aux prochaines rencontres sur mon blog et Twitter

Last week the training department of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs opened the new course: "Diplomacy in the age of Social Media". It's the first time not just in our Ministry, but in the Israel public sector in general, that there is a special training program dealing with social media skills. The major goal of this program is to train the diplomats to use the tools of social media in their work. The course includes three parts: - basic knowledge and skills in social media, including social networks, blogging, wikis, - review of the best practices of Government 2.0 and Diplomacy 2.0 in Israel and in the world - practical exercices and sumulation of social media use in diplomatic work. I'll update more on the meetings of the course (scheduled once a week), here and on twitter.

Look here: http://ow.ly/Dvgn This is the essence of what the diplomats stationes on the host countries should when they plan public diploamcy through social media tools.

Here is the PP presentation, about the use of Web 2.0 tools by Israeli diplomats, since 2004. There are also some tips on how to work with social media. http://ovdeimedina.ning.com/group/web20/forum/topics/short-pp-presentation-on

Last week (October 27-28) I represented our Ministry's Training Bureau in the Second Meeting of the EMPTA Network - the network of representatives from Public Administration Instituitions in the Euro-Mediterranean area. The conference was held in the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, Rome http://www.sspa.it/ (below see a symbol of the school). The conference was a real success. First of all, the fact that the representatives coming from countries which don't have diplomatic relations, sit around the table and talk to each other - is an achievement in itself. There were no discussions of political situation - just the dialogue about the issues important to all of us - in Israel, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and of course our European neighbours. We were discussing the skills and competencies that are necessary for all public servants in our area. Despite the differences in our cultures, in our backgrounds and our political systems - the conc...