No surprise, huh? Well, let me show you another unsurprising sight I found when I visited the Malaysia Ministry of Defense website on June 9.
What in the world is happening to the Malaysia government websites online? Bad enough it’s been reported Malaysia government websites aren’t updated in a scheduled manner. But now, a Malaysia government website can still be found experiencing downtime.
Well, here are more embarrassing news comparing the Malaysia defense ministry website and other international defense ministry websites. While some Malaysia government websites are down or catching up with the technology trend, the US navy are employing social media like blogs, YouTube, FlickR and Facebook!
Image source: Guy Kawasaki
But that’s only for the US Navy. The British army’s website is now running a recruitment campaign to get more people interested in the army. And mind you, this isn’t some “we want you” marketing idea your local agency would recommend.
It’s a full interactive campaign placing you as an army commander with game like options to select the best motive of strategy. In it, they’ve even incorporated weapons introduction and training like how you play on a computer game. Plus, you can even experience a full 3D environment!
This is what makes people interested in the army. This is what makes youngsters being recruited at 17 years old want to experience the army.
This is one of the examples the Malaysia ministry of defense needs to keep in mind if they want 90% of students to not freak out about having to join the National Serrvice program.
Don’t they feel the least bit embarassed when compared to others?
not surprised from m’sian government websites. always not updated and always down under and lost in tim-buck-too.
wonder what the IT tech people are doing in their offices…