Jack Holt is a Department of Defense career civilian employee, former active duty with the National Guard at the National Guard Bureau and with deployments to Operation Joint Guard in Hungary, Croatia, and Bosnia and also a recent 1 year tour in Afghanistan. The New Media Outreach program is built around the fact that the Internet has changed the way we as a society communicate and the changing mediascape is challenging our traditional channels of communication. Web 2.0 technologies have afforded us new capabilities to communicate and the New Media program's mission is to study these dynamics and new technologies to inform and educate the public.