Help a Coastie, Support the Coast Guard – Code Name: I’m for 1790

Help raise $1790, in honor of the year the Coast Guard was founded, for the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance fund. By donating, you will be helping our fellow shipmates with confidential assistance that they might not have received otherwise. By using the code in the memo section “I’m for 1790,” we can track our progress and work to support one another. If you use Twitter, please share your support with others by using the hashtag #Im41790.”

Scuttlebutt (yes a little late)…Do YOU know Ben Strong?

Do you know Social Media Fu Master Ben Strong (the focus of this comic)? He is the man with a plan working with AMVER, running their public affairs including a social media program so robust some of us can only dream of keeping up with him!
Here is just the tip of the Ben Strong driven [...]

Coast Guard Podcamp is coming… will you be there?

I mentioned mid last month that there was the possibility of a Podcamp happening at this years Coast Guard Innovation Expo in Virginia Beach, VA (November 17-19)- well it’s now official and we’re moving ahead with it. Yesterday our official site, Podcamp USCG, was launched which will be the central information site leading up the [...]

CGBlog’s first 30 second commercial…

I wasn’t going to post this until next week but our friend John, who runs CoastGuardNews.com, ended up finding it before we were going to post it (which means he’s paying attention since it only posted on YouTube late last night). As such I guess we should go ahead and post it as well. Sean [...]

Some advice to potential Coast Guard recruits

Found on Facebook from someone I follow this has got to be some of the best advice I’ve seen thus far:
True, I was not born to sit in an office…but IN AN OFFICE I SIT. Potential recruits, choose your path wisely, lest you find yourself trapped by the very thing you flee. Not that there [...]

Yours is Theirs: Social Media Responsibility

Earlier this week a fellow social media junkie/friend, Rachel Polish, did a great post titled The Brand of “We” Versus the Brand of “Me.” In short the piece is an overview of how important our/your personal online image is as it can reflect upon yourself as an employee of an organization; in this case the [...]

The Brand of “We” Versus the Brand of “Me”

The Brand of “We” Versus the Brand of “Me”
Part Two – the Brand of “Me”
What does your personal brand say about you AND the Coast Guard?

CG to hire up to 3 people to work on social media issues

Here is an interesting piece I stumbled across on federalnewsradio.com, talking about how the Coast Guard is working to get a handle on social media and its security issues. They talk about how the Coast Guard is looking to hire up to 3 people to work on social media. Ah, listen to me sigh dramatically [...]

The Brand of “We” Versus the Brand of “Me”

Why should each of us care about a cohesive, consistent brand and communications strategy for the Coast Guard?

Hurricane Bill’s gone… how’d the Coast Guard do?

Hurricane Bill is all but gone from U.S. waters and on it’s way to visit Cape Race, Newfoundland most likely as a tropical storm. And now that we can say there was little damage or loss of life compared to past hurricanes of its size it’s now time to play Monday morning quarterback on the [...]