If some marketers, fans and athletes have anything to say, these Games will be the first Social Media Olympics -- the "Socialympics," as some are calling them. Even the Olympic movement, which sometimes steps into the future with great caution, has warily accepted the idea.

Through the Colombo Plan, the Menzies Government draw in the best and brightest students to universities in Australia and students who came to Australia under the plan developed this lasting impression and an understanding of our country and our way of life and built a legacy of enduring friendship between peoples and countries in the region.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy will kick off its 2012 Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy at USC on July 23. The professional training program will run through August 3.

It’s true that grand strategy encompasses military, political and economic strategic approaches. But it also requires the support of the people, and the war weary young people of the United States are looking for a new way of doing things from their political leaders.

Canada maintaining in Haiti, a long-standing relationship. This relationship was built first and foremost, on people, many Haitian and Canadian travel between our two countries and thus contribute to forging close ties. These exchanges have particularly enriched the culture of our two countries and lead to many cultural events and activities.

Embarking on its yet another public diplomacy initiative, the Pakistan Embassy in the UAE recently organised an interactive lecture on regional and trans-regional route to peaceful coexistence and collective security as a means to raising awareness on contemporary political discourse.

Lim You-nam, a third year student majoring in communications at Yonsei University, visits the U.S. Yongsan Army Garrison once every week to teach a diplomat's wife Korean.