When we think of Social Media these days, we often think of Companies and Individuals such as Celebrities who are promoting their products, their services and themselves by reaching out to people via these platforms. And we don't often think of an organization like the US ARMY, however even they are embracing Social Media and I was quite impressed with the extent that they have done so. Take a look for yourself:
You can see pics at their media center: www.flickr.com/soldiersmediacenter
You can Fan them: www.facebook.com/usarmy (625,000 Fans)
You can subscribe to their RSS feeds: http://www.army.mil/rss/
You can listen to their podcasts: http://www.army.mil/rss/podcasts/
You can follow them on Twitter: www.twitter.com/usarmy
(56,000 followers, 4000 tweets)
And You can even WATCH them on YouTube, check out one of many actual training videos below: www.youtube.com/soldiersmediacenter (8000 subscribers)
This makes me wonder that they must have a very thought-out social media strategy given that they work with sensitive information in sensitive locations.
Do you think companies ought to emulate some of the US ARMY social media best practices?
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