Foreign Affairs comes with social media atlas
Also useful for travelers and expats in Thailand: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs brings all its social media accounts together on a world map: www.socialemediagidsbz.nl. With this website you can see where in the world the Netherlands is represented online.
More and more Dutch embassies are active on Twitter and Facebook, including the Dutch embassy in Bangkok. Foreign Affairs is represented online worldwide with more than 275 accounts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Even hundreds of individual employees of the ministry are active on social media in the Netherlands and at the Dutch embassies. To bundle all the different social media accounts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a world map.
Social media
In an online world in which relationships between government and citizens are constantly changing and people use social media to find, mobilize, inform and influence each other, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has now acquired a place. Anyone who wants to know whether the embassy in Japan has a Facebook, what the consul general in Vancouver tweets and which LinkedIn groups the embassy in Australia has, can see this at a glance from today in the social media atlas of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs : www.socialmediagidsbz.nl
Official and personal accounts
The website is designed as a world map on which you can see which social media accounts fall under the responsibility of the ministry, such as accounts of embassies, consulates-general, directorates, project groups, ambassadors, consuls-general and the political and administrative top. We strive for a complete overview of these accounts. In addition, personal accounts of employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who are active on social media are also included, but only Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
Modern diplomacy
Modern diplomacy calls for a different way of communicating, for involvement, for dialogue, for direct contact. People are connected all over the world, want to participate in the discussion and think along, are self-reliant and assertive. Social media are increasingly becoming mainstream platforms for policymaking and public diplomacy abroad. Embassies, managements and employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs use social media to show what the Netherlands stands for and what they do for the Netherlands abroad. By being present on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other platforms, anyone can easily get in touch with embassies and Foreign Affairs staff.