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- ↑ Marks, Oliver. "eDiplomacy: The US State Department's Global Collaborative Backbone - ZDNet". Archived from the original on October 28, 2010.
- ↑ "Taking Collaborative Risk at The State Department".
- ↑ "Unpaid lawmakers? Don't tell the Founders' ghosts".
- ↑ Clinton presides over State Department 2.0, archived from the original on 2013-06-15, retrieved 2016-10-27
- ↑ "U.S. Department of State's New Media Director: We're 'Still Behind in New Media'".