Facebook Ambassador
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Description
Facebook Ambassador is a generic term representation as an idiom, buzzword, or neologism that can be attributed to individual users on Facebook who have developed a Facebook page presence and professional representation on Facebook as an 'ambassador' of 'networking' that promote their agendas in a general socially beneficial manner and ideally a cooperative way in their representative appearance to other Facebook users by following Facebook best practices, strictly adhering to Facebook's policies, and by following selective hybridized protocols conducive to the generation of compounded social networking activity as a virtual communitarian, and peacemaker to promote multiple social causes and other socially beneficial activities.
Alternatively, Facebook Ambassador may also refer to Facebook Garage Ambassadors whom are dedicated to the technical aspect of Facebook development. For more information read below or see: Facebook Developer Garage and Garage-In-A-Box.
Facebook Ambassadors of the social networking and public diplomacy type or of the technical type are not employees of or directly affiliated with Facebook (the corporation). Each Ambassador who chooses to represent themselves publicly as a Facebook Ambassador is an independent agent of their own source work and individual network efforts as a professional Facebook user.
Ambassadors on Facebook
The concept of a Facebook Ambassador and the formal development of Facebook diplomacy is an original creation of the Globcal International Cooperative which has promoted and developed a group of over 200 individual Facebook Ambassadors within the public Facebook social network platform between March and September of 2009.
Globcal's innovative concept of creating social network ambassadors was established initially by a group of social networking professionals in March of 2009 as a result of the formation an academic demonstration of the United Nations, initiated and led by Col. David Jeffrey Wright, a Facebook User/Developer, a policy institute strategist, and former ambassador at-large for the city of Caracas, Venezuela, who developed the idea using his combined experience to realize a special network creation. The 'Model United Nations' (MUN) group he created first was parallel to the United Nations and a representative facsimile to social networking across the larger platforms beginning with Facebook, the original group was called the 'Model United Nations, Social Network Embassy,' (MUNSNE) for short.
By May of 2009 the Facebook Group they developed began to grow exponentially and though they were permitted by the United Nations to create an academic re-creation (Model UN) of an on-line United Nations Assembly, concerns later posed by UN officials caused the group to revamp their ideal and they founded Globcal International, and started a website and launched a Facebook page dedicated to their endeavors.
As of November 01, 2009 the ideal has expanded has over 100 trained and identity verified ambassadors and now includes the integration of several applications for use on Facebook that permit direct interactions between verified or validated fan pages and general Facebook users. The application (under development) uses traditional verification methods between 'fan page' owners to alleviate problems users have encountered with fake profiles and avoid social capital developers that are engaged in creating false profiles.
Facebook Diplomacy
The term Facebook Diplomacy was coined sometime in October 2008 in casual notes exchanged on Twitter, relative to President Barack Obama and his campaign's keen use of Facebook and other social network platforms. The term Facebook Diplomacy was further introduced and elaborated to describe the potential power of Internet social networking tools like Facebook to counter terrorism, create soft power, and interfere with repressive governments in a discussion at a social networking and technology conference several months later in New York.
During the December conference in New York, the United States Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy, James Glassman said, "New technology gives the United States and other free nations a significant advantage over terrorists." In his presentation at New York's Columbia University Law School, he went on to illustrate how Facebook diplomacy and on-line activism created success through the use of Facebook groups and the use of the platform to create activism and cause global awareness relative to issues in Colombia against the infamous FARC rebels.See News Article
In general, Facebook diplomacy is public diplomacy and citizen diplomacy as applied in the Facebook social networking platform, other terms that have also evolved here include Twitter diplomacy and Google diplomacy.
Globcal International engaged the further development and refinement of public and citizen diplomacy as it applies for use within the Facebook Platform with the developed introduction of protocol, principles, and a best practice guide based on several ISO standards. Globcal's public diplomacy concept differs from that of the US State Department because it offers a broad global democratic world-view instead of the United States propagandized perception of how the world should be.
Articles that document the existence of Facebook Diplomacy include the following:
- U.S. immigrant builds bridges with the 'Facebook of Peace'
- Facebook Diplomacy (comic)
- Facebook Diplomacy (Newsweek)
- Facebook Diplomacy: State 'friends' the World
Facebook Diplomacy Game
Facebook Diplomacy may also refer to an adaptation of the Diplomacy strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer as elaborated on-line at Facebook, for more information see: The game application web Diplomacy (also called php Diplomacy), the game group Facebook Diplomacy, the Game, the Diplomatic Pouch Game page Diplomatic Pouch
The Globcal FB Ambassador Project
Globcal's Facebook Ambassador Program is a complex one involving training of individual Facebook users in public diplomacy, diplomatic protocol, the use of several groups, the installation and ongoing development of its applications, and positively identifying each program protagonist (ambassador) using traditional and/or electronic methods in order to participate.
Facebook Groups
- Globcal International Cooperative
- Facebook People's Embassy (formerly MUNSNE)
- Facebook Diplomatic Corps | Ambassador and Diplomacy Training
- Facebook Ambassadors
Facebook Confidential
- Ambassador Page Guide Open only to Facebook Ambassadors that have and manage a Facebook Page
- Public Figure Page Guide Open only to Public Figures that have and manage a Verified Facebook Fan Page
- Celebrity Page Guide Open only to Celebrities that have and manage a Verified Facebook Fan Page
- NGO|iNGO Page Guide Open only to organizations that have and manage a Facebook Fan Page and have an active ambassador representative in the Facebook Diplomatic Corps
Facebook Pages
Facebook Applications
Application Developers
Notes
This article and reference are part of a Facebook Application that is under development by the Globcal International Cooperative by a team of professional social network developers and users that have migrated to the Facebook Platform from XING, ecademy, InterNations, Sonico, Hi5, Bebo, Plaxo and several others.
Disambiguation
Facebook Developer Ambassadors or Facebook Garage Ambassadors - The Facebook Developers and the Facebook Developer Garage who specialize in the development of applications and the constant evolution of the Facebook Platform, has also created an ambassador program to serve as anchors for other developers and users to resource from within their local area, host video conferences, and orchestrate developer events.
For more information about the Facebook Garage Ambassadors see: Facebook Developer Garage and Garage-In-A-Box.
Disclaimer
Facebook Ambassador(s), Facebook Diplomacy, Facebook Diplomatic Corps, and Facebook People's Embassy, are terms first placed into use on Facebook and on other social networking platforms by the Globcal International Cooperative, there is no affiliation or direct association between Globcal or the Facebook Ambassador Program or other terms used to describe and develop our project with Facebook (the corporation).
Facebook is our social network service platform provider, without Facebook the program would not have been developed nor would their ambassadors have ever organized. The Globcal (formerly MUNSNE) program operates exclusively on Facebook, all the ambassadors have Facebook hosted pages. Inasmuch, the program and format is Facebook dependent yet independent from Facebook legally speaking. The use of the Facebook name is descriptive and is based on legal 'organic usage' and inevitably 'natural law' based within the English language and perception by third parties.
© Copyrights
Globcal International Cooperative is a free open source service based on Facebook, there are never, nor shall there ever be any fees associated to become an ambassador through their program and no profits are derived from our common use in general of Facebook or its service platform as a social network.
The copyrights of Globcal blogs, e-books, websites, other on-line publication efforts, Twitter news-feeds, Facebook pages and groups are all the 'cooperative intellectual property' of the Globcal Cooperative Members (Ambassadors). The 'copyright and inclusive work' related includes but is not limited to the following: Facebook Diplomacy 2.0, Goodwill Ambassadors of the World, Ambassadors of the World, World Leaders Coalition, Community of Nations, Facebook People's Embassy, Globcal Now, No Borders 2012, the Imagine Campaign and International Observances are all protected under the Globcal Copyright and may be used by others when the appropriate citations and credit are given.
