Social Media Gurus Needed by the Pentagon

August 16, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Social Media Gurus Needed by the Pentagon

Looking for a new job? Do you spend hours a day on Facebook? Can you browse Twitter like lightning spotting new trends before others? The Pentagon might be looking for you.

This interesting piece of information was found on The Atlantic in their article, “The Pentagon Enters the Social Web With a Call for Memetrackers.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense geeks, are calling for research applications of social media to strategic communication. The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program is to develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base.

DARPA has a budget of $42 million for “innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.” Don’t get too excited, that isn’t the position salary.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.