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7th Fleet Hits Social Media Milestones
YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- When Maudy Ramadhani clicked the "Become a Fan" icon on the 7th Fleet's page on Nov. 22, the Facebook user from Indonesia became the 5,000th person to actively follow the 7th Fleet on the world's largest social networking site, and further demonstrated the power of social media to connect. More than 65 percent of 7th Fleet's fans on Facebook are international, with India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, and Singapore accounting for the top ten, according to data provided by the site. Of those users, 54 percent are age 24 and under. "One of the fleet's persistent priorities is to build partnerships, and that requires us to promote transparency and foster goodwill," said Vice Adm. John Bird, 7th Fleet commander. "Social media has dramatically increased our ability to engage with people and tell them not only that we are here, but also to show them why we are here, and how our presence promotes regional stability, enables prosperity and fosters cooperative security." USS George Washington (CVN-73), 7th Fleet's only forward deployed aircraft carrier, also experienced rapid success with the launch of its Facebook page. It accumulated over 1,300 fans as of Nov. 22, just tens days after launching its group on the site. The milestones are further progress in a series of initiatives in 7th Fleet to embrace social media as a central element of public communication. Rear Adm. Richard Landolt, 7th Fleet's Amphibious Force commander, actively used both Facebook and Twitter to inform the public about U.S. Navy humanitarian assistance operations in Indonesia in the weeks following a devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near Padang on Sept. 30. "Amazing response by Sailors and Marine volunteers who came ashore to help," he wrote on Oct. 9. "The Indonesians thanked them all! Sama-Sama (you're welcome)." Landolt's once- to twice-daily "tweets" helped not only inform the public at large, but also helped to rapidly disseminate practical information in real time to local residents, government officials, and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives, many who spoke only limited English. "I tried to use Twitter as a way to try to talk to somebody, say in the fifth grade," said Landolt. "As I learned something that I thought was useful, I would [send a 'tweet'] out and post it; a factoid on what we were doing or what kind of capacity a CH-53 helicopter has, for instance." The Navy's humanitarian and civic action mission Pacific Partnership 2009 also made social media a key component of its communications efforts during the mission earlier this year. In addition to a Facebook page, PP09 launched a blog to capture a variety of personal perspectives on the mission from Navy, U.S. government, NGO and partner nation participants. "This has been a very personal experience," State Dept. liaison officer Tom Weinz wrote in on the blog in July during a mission to Samoa. "Our band has played for kids with special needs and marched with the police band in the streets of Apia… It makes Samoans and Americans and our several partner nation participants a little wiser, a little more understanding and even more appreciative of random acts of kindness and love." For more information about the U.S. 7th Fleet, and for links to its social media pages including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace and YouTube, visit www.c7f.navy.mil. For more news from Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, visit www.navy.mil/local/c7f/.
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