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DefenseLINK News: CENTCOM Team Engages 'Bloggers'
Topic: Blogging 4:08 pm EDT, Aug 18, 2006

McNorton said the team contacts bloggers to inform the writers about any given topic that may have been posted on their site. This outreach effort enables the team to offer complete information to bloggers by inviting them to visit CENTCOM's Web site for news releases, data or imagery.

The team engages bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information. They extend a friendly invitation to all bloggers to visit the command's Web site...

"We don't go in there and get into a debate," he said.

One of the members of this team is Army Spc. Patrick Ziegler, who has recently created a MemeStreams account.

A friend of mine used to be a manager at a telemarketing call center. She said they had a high employee attrition rate because the people who worked there would take it personally when they got hung up on or yelled at by the people they were cold calling. I was kind of amazed by that. I figured if you were in telemarketing you knew what you were in for.

This sort of reminds me of that. Running around the blogosphere posting serious information without getting emotionally involved in the chorus of opinions being lobbed at you requires a spectacular degree of detachment. Its certainly easier then getting shot at on the streets of Iraq, but its about as close as the Internet gets.

DefenseLINK News: CENTCOM Team Engages 'Bloggers'



 
 
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