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www.YeniDiplomasi.com | @yenidiplomasi |[email protected]

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This review aims to map out best performingdigital diplomacy actors, institutions, teamsand units. In turn, our study targets to inspire

others who are willing to make progress. Wealso want to create new categories for furtherand more collaborative analysis. Our study

assesses the following: contribution,committment and determination to the use,advocacy, research & publication of digitaldiplomacy issues, tools, apps and methods in

both official and non-official practices.


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Digital Diplomacy is diplomacy for everyoneby everyone, anywhere, anytime Through thisprism, 2013 was the golden year of digital

diplomacy. It was a real boom. There is somuch food for thought. Several new projects,campaigns by ministries/states and netizen

initiatives were deployed in the past 12months. New academic reports & op-eds werewidely published in conventional & digitalmedia outlets. Digital diplomacy ecosystem is

now more organized and vibrant worldwide.


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Our choices are by no means definitive andfinal. On the contrary this review desires toopen a new platform for fruitful data-driven

discusssion on digital diplomacy. We welcomeany criticism. We are open to suggestions andalternative views to improve our framework.

During the course of drafting this study, weassessed almost every single written, audio &visual open-source material and took intoconsideration what global digital diplomacy

ecosystem talked about in 2013.


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Yenidiplomasi.com team collected data fromvarious sources after holding discussions regardingeach category. The Digital Diplomacy Review is as

inclusive as possible. It highlights the trendsettersas well as highly-motivated new netizens,diplomats or researchers. Our team alsoacknowledges failures of the Internetional system.

The Digital Diplomacy Review 2013 is a newbeginning. We believe that the real job starts nowonwards in order to maintain the enthusiasm &committment to monitor day-to-day developments

in the field of digital diplomacy in 2014 & beyond.


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Yenidiplomasi.com is a platform for the advocacy, research, training, consulting andpublication of digital diplomacy issues. Since 2012, we have been focusing on the new rules ofengagement, units of analysis, actors and innovations that shape the new Internetionalsystem. Our platform engages with the global digital diplomacy ecosystem and each teammember has shown great enthusiasm to learn from the global leaders, diplomats, researchers,journalists and perhaps even more from the netizens.

Our dynamic team considers digital diplomacy in its broadest sense as the current phase

of an ongoing transformation towards a growing Internetional world order shaped by digitalnatives, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0. Diplomacy 3.0 is therefore our main focus. It is no longer anoption; it is a necessity.

Insofar as Diplomacy 1.0 deals with international relations and law, military power,territorial integrity and sovereignty; Diplomacy 3.0 acknowledges the new forms & methods ofhierarchy-free, borderless, digital, viral communication & influence. We should benefit morefrom the digital anthropology and critical geography studies at the academic crossroads to

better understand the new Internetional system, its netizens, communities and relations. Thisreview is our first attempt to undertake a comprehensive annual outlook to this multisectoraland crossdisciplinary ecosystem. We hope to make a conribution to the existing debate andhear your feedback to collaborate with like-minded parties for similar initiatives in the future.

Gkhan Ycel, President

@goyucel


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Content is the King, Distribution is theQueen and she wears the Pants

Jonathan Perelman, Buzzfeed@JPerelman


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Best State

Hashtags of the Year

#DigitalDiplomacy

#Ediplomacy#Twiplomacy

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Best State

State of the Year

#Iran

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Best State

Cartoon of the Year

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Head of State of the Year

HassanROUHANI

@HassanRouhani

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Digital Diplomacy Strategy of the Year

Foreign Office

#FCO @foreignoffice

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Foreign Ministers of the Year

CarlBILDT@carlbildt

JavadZarif@jzarif

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Portal of the Year (Ministry)

#FCOhttp://blogs.fco.gov.uk/

digitaldiplomacy/

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Digital Diplomacy Team of the Year

#Sweden

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Digital Diplomacy Team

Leaders of the Year

Petrit

Selimi@petrit

Adam

Bye@adamwbye

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Social Media Team of the Year

@UNMedia TeamUn.org/social

blogs.UN.org

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Ambassador of the Year

Tom Fletcher@HMATomFletcher

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Digital Engagement of the Year (Embassy)

UK in

Lebanon@ukinlebanon

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Digital Engagement of the Year (Portal)

DigitalKosovo.org

conx.state.gov

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Twitter Engagement of the Year (State)

@sweden

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Tweet of the Year

The White

House@WhiteHouse

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Conversation of the Year

JackDorsey

@jack

Hassan

Rouhani@HasanRouhani

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Video of the Year

#Iran@jzarif

There is a way

forward

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Instagram Activation of the Year (Leader)

Abdullah Glhttp://instagram.com/cbabdullahgul

@TRPresidency @CBAbdullahGul

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Instagram Activation of the Year (State)

#Israelonceinalifetime.org.il

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Facebook Engagement

of the Year (State)

#Kosovo

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Facebook Engagement of the Year(Embassy)

US Embassy in

Jakartafacebook.com/jakarta.usembassy

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Youtube Engagement

of the Year (Ministry)

#Germanyyoutube.com/user/GermanyDiplo

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Youtube Engagement of the Year(Embassy)

UK in Lebanon@ukinlebanon

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5508E396DD3004C

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Pinterest Activation of the Year (Embassy)

Embassy of Jordan@JoEmbassyUS

pinterest.com/joembassyus/

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Inter-Parliamentary Engagement of theYear

ParliamentaryExchange & Dialogue@pexdproject

@TBMMResmi & @Europarl_EN

https://www.facebook.com/pexdproject

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Digital Diplomacy Advocate of the Year

Andreas

Sandre@andreas212nyc

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Special Profiles of the Year

e-diplomat

@ediploMatthiasLfkens@Luefkens

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MinistersBlog Article Of the Year

John

Kerry@johnkerry

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DiplomatsBlog Of the Year (Bilingual)

Leigh Turner@leighturnerFCOhttp://blogs.fco.gov.uk/leighturner/

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Digital Agenda of the Year

#EU@EU_Commission@NeelieKroesEU

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E-Consular Affairs of the Year

#Turkey@MFATurkey

@TC_Disislerikonsolosluk.gov.tr/

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Global Study of the Year

#Twiplomacy

@TwiplomacyTwiplomacy.com

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Promoted Tweet of the Year

@IsraeliPM

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Non-Global Study of the Year

Siege Arts"The Gezi Park Incident" Evaluation Report

siegearts.com/reports/tr/geziparki/index_en.php

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Book of the Year

The NewDigital

Age@ericschmidt &

@jaredcohen

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Suggested Reading in 2014

Cyberspace &

International

Relations@jf_kremer

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Think-Tank Publication of the Year

Roland Paris@rolandparis

@CDFAI

The Digital DiplomacyRevolution:Why is Canada Lagging

Behind?"

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Private Sector Publication of the Year

Portland@Portlandcomms

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Ranking Report of the Year

World Leaders

on TwitterReport Ranking

digitaldaya.com

@Digitaldaya

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Digital Diplomacy

Blog of the Year (Analysis)

@public_diplomat @GuyGolanhttp://thepublicdiplomat.com/

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Journal Article of the Year

Alasdair Pinkerton

@Alpinkerton &

@mcbenwell Matt BenwellRethinking popular geopolitics in theFalklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute:

Creative diplomacy and citizen statecraft"Political Geography / Volume 38, January 2014, Pages 1222

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Student Work of the Year

Jeannette GaidaSocial Media in Public Diplomacy:

Twitter and DC Embassies"takefiveblog.org/author/hawkgirl11

@sweetandcrazy11

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B.A. Dissertation of the Year

David Robert

@DrFolley FolleyBritish Senior Diplomats

Use of Twitter: A Content

Analysis

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M.A. Dissertation of the Year

Helen HoffmanTwitter as an Instrument of

Public Diplomacy:A Case Study of Sweden and

Germany

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Ph.D. Dissertation of the Year (2012-2013)

Omar A. El-Khairy

American Statecraft for aGlobal Digital Age: warfare,

diplomacy and culture in a

segregated world

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Sylabbus of the Year

Social Movementsand New Media

http://bit.ly/SMANM

@zeynep @carolina_news

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Regional Focus of the Year

Dubai School of

GovernmentThe Arab World Online: Trends inInternet usage in the Arab region

@MBRSG

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Virtual Embassy of the Year

Tehran.Irantehran.usembassy.gov

@StateDept#EmbIran

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e-Book of the Year

AndreasSandre

@andreas212nycTwitter for Diplomats"

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Scholars of the Year (Digital Sociology &Anthropology)

Zeynep

Tfeki@zeynep

technosociology.org

MarcSmith@marc_smith

connectedaction.net

Leon

Wattswww.cs.bath.ac.uk/Leon

MichaelWesch@mwesch

michaelwesch.com

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Media Outlet of the Year

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1.Jimmy LeachDigital diplomacy: facing a future without borders

@jimmyTleach The Independent, 19 July 2013

2.Alan W. Silberberg4 Years of Digital Diplomacy and Change

@ideagov HuffPost World, 17 June 2013

3.Gergely PolnerThe New Golden Age of Diplomacy

@eurocrat HuffPost Politics, 17 August 2013

4.Brett Daniel ShehadeyA Revolution in Digital Diplomacy

International Policy Digest, 16 May 2013

5.Stuart Hughes Digital Diplomacy: here to stay and worth the risk @stuartdhughes BBC Academy, 24 May 2013

6.Andreas Sandre Fast Diplomacy: The Future of Foreign Policy

@andreas212nyc HuffPost World, 11 June 2013

7.Arturo Sarukhan

Diplomacy and the Digital Age@Arturo_Sarukhan HuffPost Media, 3 April 2013

Op-Eds ofthe Year

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Interviews of the Year

1. Maysam AliAlec Ross: Diplomacy in the Digital Age

@maysoumie @alecjross Aspen Institute, 3 January 2013

2. Alex FitzpatrickThe Future of Digital Diplomacy: An Interview with Alec Ross

@alexjamesfitz @alecjross Mashable, 13 March 2013

3.Alexander HowardExit Interview: Alec Ross on Internet Freedom, Innovation and Digital

Diplomacy@digiphile @alecjross HuffPost Tech, 12 March 2013

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Newspaper/Magazine Reports

of the Year

1. Barak RavidPrime MinistersOffice recruiting students to

wage online hasbara battles@barakravid Haaretz, 13 August 2013

2. Dan BilefskyKosovo attains status (on Facebook) It Has Sought for Years: nation@danbilefsky New York Times, 12 December 2013

3.Philip BoyesKosovosDigital Diplomats

@Philip_Boyes Foreign Policy, 6 December 2013

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1.Twitterati 100twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/lists/twitterati-100

@ForeignPolicy

2.Twiplomacytwitter.com/andreas212nyc/lists/twiplomacy

@andreas212nyc

3.MFAs on Twittertwitter.com/DiplomacyEdu/lists/mfas-on-twitter@DiplomacyEdu

4.Diplomats & Missionstwitter.com/Twiplomacy/lists/diplomats-missions

@Twiplomacy

5.Foreign Office on Twittertwitter.com/foreignoffice/lists/foreign-office-on-twitter

@foreignoffice

6. Think Tankstwitter.com/atlanticcom/think-tanks/members

@atlanticcom

7.nyt-foreign-journalists

twitter.com/nytimesworld/lists/nyt-foreign-journalists@nytimesworld

Twitter Lists ofthe Year

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Think-Tank of the Year

The

BrookingsInstitution

@BrookingsInst

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Research Centers of the Year

MIT Media

Lab@MediaLab

Oxford

InternetInstitute@oiioxford

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Digital Firm of the Year

Burson

Marsteller@BMDigital

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Cultural Diplomacy Project of the Year

#Turkayfe@Turkayfe

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Digital Diaspora Accounts of the Year

World Uyghur [email protected]

No Sochi 2014@NoSochi2014

nosochi2014.com

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Digital Diaspora Study of the Year

E-Diasporas@EDiasporasAtlas

e-diasporas.fr

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Digital Diaspora Book of the Year

Marie Gillespie & Alban

Webb

Diasporas and Diplomacy:Cosmopolitan contact zones at

the BBC World Service (1932

2012)"

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Digital City Diplomacy of the Year

#Dubai@DXBMediaOffice

@SmartGov_Dubai@DubaiExpo2013

@DubaiExcellence

dubai.ae

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Digital Corporate Diplomacy of the Year

TurkishAirlines

@TurkishAirlines

turkishairlines.comyoutube.com/user/TURKISHAIRLINES

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Digital Country Branding of the Year

#Sweden@Sweden

curatorsofsweden.com

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Digital Diplomacy Quote of the Year

As a prime minister of Kosovo,

I found it difficult to accept that

I have to declare myself as

being from Serbia. Being listed

by Facebook was like beingrecognized by a global

economic superpower. It has

enormous impact.

Hashim Tachi

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Most Popular TweeQuote of the Year

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International Organization of the Year

#UNRefugee

Agency@Refugees

unhcr.org

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Visualization of the Year (State)

Mapping@DFATDCanada

@TheCIC

opencanada.org

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Visualization of the Year (Corporate)

Coordinated

MigrationFacebook Data

Science Team@facebook @hofleitner

Facebook.com

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Data Journalism of the Year

The

Guardian@guardiandata

theguardian.com/data

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Dataset of the Year

World Leader

TwitterDirectory

@picobee

@VITweepleworldleadertwitterdirectory.wordpress.com

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Travel Portal & App of the Year

#Peru@VisitPeru

peru.travel

Youtube.com/user/VisitPeru

Facebook.com/visitperu.travel

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Travel Advisory App of the Year (Ministry)

#France@FranceDiplo @ConseilsVoyages

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Innovation of the Year

World's FirstDigitally Signed

International

Agreement

#Finland &

#Estonia

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Public-Private Partnership of the Year

StateDepartment

MOOC

Camps@StateDept

@EdxOnline

@Coursera

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Start-up of the Year

#Diplomatify@Diplomatify

Diplomatify.com

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Digital Game of the Year

Trace Effects@StateDept

traceeffects.state.gov

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Search Engine of the Year

Hshtagshshtags.com

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Academic Program of the Year

Bahcesehir University#DigitalDiplomacy Program

bahcesehir.edu.tr/digital_diplomasi

@Bahcesehir

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Netizens of the Year

Iranians

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Ambassadors Conference of the Year

Foreign OfficeLeadership Conference

#digitaldiplomacy

@ForeignOffice

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Professional Event of the Year

Digital DiplomacyOpen House

Digidiplomats.com/openhouse

@DigiDiplomats

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Conference of the Year

Digital Diplomacy+ Social Good Forum

Digidiplomats.com/socialgood

@DigiDiplomats @plus socialgood

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Professional Group of the Year

The Digital Diplomacy CoalitionDigidiplomats.com

@DigiDiplomats

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Linkedin Group of the Year

The Digital Diplomacy Coalitionhttp://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4467848&trk=anet_ug_hm

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Pioneer of the Year (Special Award)

10th AnniversaryTech@State @statedept

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Project in Progress of the Year

Who representthe Arab world online?http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=70

@oiiresearch

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Conflict & Peacebuilding Project of theYear

Blogs & Bulletshttp://www.usip.org/publications/blogs-bullets

@usip

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Social Influence Analytics of the Year

#KloutKlout.com

@klout

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Social Media Semantics Platform of theYear

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#[email protected]

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Free Social Media Tool of the Year

#[email protected]

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Geodata Platform for Twitter of the Year

#Worldmap@Harvard

worldmap.harvard.edu

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Free Complex Network AnalysisPlatform of the Year

#[email protected]

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Failure of the Year

#Syria

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Job Vacancy of the Year

Part Time Digital

Diplomacy Officer

@UKinUzbekistan

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