The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to welcome Elizabeth Linder, Politics and Government Specialist, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Facebook. Elizabeth spent time discussing how networking and social media can play an important role in the practice of public diplomacy. Facebook, with its individual and country pages, presents opportunities for the public diplomacy practitioner to engage publics in many diverse ways.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Ben Hammersley for a discussion about the technological mega-trends that will shape the next decade, and what the internet, social networks, borderless memetics, epidemiology, and the changed media landscape will mean for public diplomacy.

On Tuesday, February 26, the US-Mexico Network @ USC co-sponsored a moderated round table discussion with USC faculty and students which focused on the public diplomacy efforts of middle powers and specifically how those past experiences can be implemented into policy recommendations for Mexican public diplomacy efforts.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and USC Annenberg School of Journalism were pleased to host Sausan Ghosheh, Senior Partnership Adviser, United Nations Development Program and spokesperson for the UN Supervision Mission in Syria for the CPD-Journal

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Professor Jay Wang for a discussion about the findings from his research into the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy welcomed Paul Smith, USA Director of the British Council. Paul Smith has been Director of the British Council in the USA and Cultural Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, DC since August 2012.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to welcome Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is a non-profit corporation tasked with managing the logistics of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and domain names.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host a conversation with Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Master's Program in Public Diplomacy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Professor Cull discussed his newly released book, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy 1989-2001 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).