PDiN Monitor July/August Issue Out Now

The July/August issue of PDiN Monitor, CPD's electronic review of public diplomacy in the news, features Digital Diplomacy.

• In this issue, Tori Horton reviews the benefits and critiques of digital diplomacy in her article A New Breed of Foreign Policy. In Beyond the BlackBerry Ban: Realpolitik and the Negotiation of Digital Rights, Shawn Powers discusses BlackBerry's latest brush with the law, Internet freedom and the potential impact on global communications. In Everybody's Diplomacy, Matt Armstrong urges the U.S. government to rethink its use of social media, while Rima Tatevossian discusses the growth of mobile technology and the use of social media by the U.S. government in No Simple App for Public Diplomacy.
• The PDiN Extras section includes a brief round up of PDiN Headlines assessing the impact of the 2010 World Cup Games and of the catastrophic Floods in Pakistan & Aid Diplomacy.
• PD in Print presents the latest blogs from CPD as well as the Summer 2010 issue of PD Magazine.

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