Thursday, February 18, 2010

Ask the British Foreign Secretary: Sharing Ideas and Questions Across the Pond

Cross-country communication used to be a far more difficult task -- now, exchanging ideas, questions and feedback across national boundaries is easy. The British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is proving this, with a new exercise called "Global Conversations," in which he's using the new Google Moderator/YouTube integration to solicit user thoughts about the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. Hear more from Miliband about this project here:



Specifically, Miliband is interested in hearing your questions about the war in Afghanistan and how to end it. But feel free to fire away here about any aspect of the U.S. - U.K. relationship - it's a storied one, so we're sure you have lots of questions. Miliband is headed to M.I.T. to give a lecture on the subject and will address top-voted ideas there.

3 comments:

The Internet said...

Afganistan? I say we take off and nuke the entire site from space. It's the only way to be sure.

youtube said...

youtube would be positive developments

Tim Hood said...

Hi
The moderator/youtube hook up is long overdue-congratulations.

Incidentally, we started a Global Conversations channel for the Foreign Office 18 months ago, so it is not new-here it is www.yoosk.com/fco

And here are a number of case studies of how we use Yoosk (which pre-dates Moderator by a year) plus YouTube for government engagement in the UK.

http://www.scribd.com/TimH1

This is the way to go so glad to discuss more.

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