Some Random Thoughts on the Air Force Blog Response Chart
For those of you who are following such things, you know that the USAF (an organization that has kept its distance from the blogosphere in the past) has come out with a “Web Posting Response Assessment”–a stiff-lipped flowchart that nonetheless appeals to the systems analyst/information architect in me.
What do I like about this flowchart? It aims to give the man on the street (in this case, a USAF enlisted person or officer) some easy tools and processes for responding to items out there in the blogosphere. I really like the “no response” solution to trolls and ragers. It’s really easy to get baited by the mental midgets out there, which makes you an even bigger midget. (You know what I mean.)
I also like the transparency clause in the Response section. That’s another thing that’s easy to forget when you’re out there–and something that’s very hard to apologize for, because everyone will assume you were hiding your affiliation on purpose.
Lastly, I like how the process encourages a response with facts, using links to existing materials. Great way to bolster any position and build SEO at the same time. Something like this should be easily adaptable to your organization’s situation.
