The United States is embracing social networks and other Web 2.0 tools to win the “war of ideas” with Islamic militants and other extremist groups, a top US policy-maker said Monday…”The best way to achieve our goals in public diplomacy is through a new approach to communicating, an approach that is made far easier because of the emergence of Web 2.0 or social networking technologies…We call our new approach Public Diplomacy 2.0…”  (Agence France Press, December 1, 2008)

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