🚨 #IPBA2023 @IPBA2023 participants - a quick favor request. If you happen to have a photo from your ferry trip, could you share it with me? I have an idea for next year's art gallery.

Another one of those days....

I wonder how awkward it would be if I start a crowdsourcing campaign to attend this conference... I am okay with medium levels of awkwardness, and with high levels if I get to fly business.

It was a pleasure to be a part of this project. It gave me a chance to actually empirically test a couple of theoretical arguments both in city diplomacy and digital diplomacy. Looking forward to reading all the contributions.

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Updated my Vacancy Counter for the Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy & Public Affairs. 2014 → 2019 → 2022 → now 2025. efesevin.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/upd…

New blog post from the 25th Anniversary Conference: the second entry in my “old man yelling at stuff” series. I tell young people to put down the AIs (for a moment) and talk to each other. Innovation matters, but without human connection, there’s no real public diplomacy.