RE: Current Policy on memetics: Branding the U.S. State Departmen t

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 12:23:32 BST

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    That's very interesting to stuff we teach here at Stirling, cheers.

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: TJ Olney
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:34 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Current Policy on memetics: Branding the U.S. State
    > Department
    >
    > This was circulated on a list about social marketing. Where issues about
    > how to use the techniques developed for commercial gain to promote causes
    > and behavioral changes seen as "pro-social" are discussed.
    > TJ
    >
    > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:57:28 -0400
    > From: Alan Andreasen <ANDREASA@gunet.georgetown.edu>
    > Marketing rules!!!!
    >
    > The following excerpt appeared in the April 9th issue of Advertising Age:
    >
    > "Secretary of State Colin Powell is making the branding of the State
    > Department an unusual goal of his administration, and has named former J.
    > Walter Thompson Co. Chairman Charlotte Beers [to be] assistant secretary
    > of
    > public diplomacy.....
    >
    > [In public testimony in March, Powell said] "I am going to bring people
    > into
    > the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change
    > from
    > just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy" The
    > goal he said is "branding the department, marketing the department,
    > marketing
    > American values to the world, and not just putting out pamphlets."
    >
    >
    >
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