Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen posted “200th blog posting” yesterday, underscoring his commitment to using web-based technology in support of the Coast Guard’s mission, internally and externally:
This is our 200th blog posting, coming just over six months since we launched this site. We have really enjoyed the dialogue and appreciate all of the apparent interest and growing readership (though we could always use more comments). As you hopefully know, iCommandant is just the tip of the iceberg for the Coast Guard’s effort to leverage social media for the benefit of our mission execution and support, including our external communication and internal coordination. Since we initiated this effort, Team Coast Guard has stepped out aggressively to meet my intent. With social media really being about building networks, I thought I’d mark this milestone blog by sharing those sites that I read, both officially and unofficially. (This is not all inclusive, but a pretty good representation of some of the stuff I follow and/or find interesting).
Click through to read the entire list.
Suffice to say that I’m tickled to see both Navagear and Puget Sound Maritime represented in that list. I follow the readership figures closely, but Google Analytics doesn’t tell you what portion of your readers are influential movers and shakers!
