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January 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Ever want to ask a question to State Department officials? Now’s your chance. January has been declared “21st Century Statecraft Month” at the U.S. Department of State.
According to a statement from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 21st Century Statecraft is about using social media and the Internet in combination with more traditional foreign policy tools to connect people and achieve diplomatic goals. Throughout the month, the State Department will be engaging people around the world on a wide array of digital platforms.
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Upcoming events include a live web chat with Alec Ross, Secretary Clinton‘s Senior Advisor for Innovation. Ross, who tweets from the handle @AlecJRoss, is a firm believer in using social media to help achieve the State Department’s goals.
“Connection technologies are changing the ecology of geopolitical power,” says Ross. “Hillary Clinton is a muscular Secretary of State who has unleashed 21st Century Statecraft so that our diplomats can adapt to the technology-fueled changes in the world and advance America’s interests.”
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That chat will go live Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 9:45 a.m. ET.
As part of the State Department’s digital outreach efforts, Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland will be taking questions live via Twitter every Friday afternoon. Not an English speaker? Not a problem. Questions will be received and translated in 10 languages, all of which represent an area of strategic importance to the State Department. Nuland’s Twitter QAs began last week, and the video of the first session can be found on YouTube.
The full schedule of special events related to 21st Century Statecraft Month can be found here.
The State Department is already highly active on a plethora of media. According to Spokeswoman Nuland, the State Department has 193 social media accounts in total, over half of which belong to individual embassies. State Department headquarters maintains a website, a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter handle, a YouTube account, a Flickr account, and a Tumblr.
The State Department has been using social media to help connect people in natural emergencies or to encourage entrepreneurship in the developing world. Individual ambassadors have used digital tools to connect with locals and to spread knowledge about the United States and its work around the world.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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