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Coast Guard Report has been under attack from Coast Guard Headquarters for well over a year now.  The recent flap between the White House and FOX News in indicative of the struggle Coast Guard has had with coming to terms with this site.  While Admiral Thad Allen, Coast Guards Commandant does the social media circuit talking about his twitter, Facebook and iCommandant blog, his staff wages a war against the very social media he claims to embrace.

We have had our readers, our number of readers and our site challenged by the machine that is Coast Guard Headquarters.  On June 6th of this year, we established a Clustrmap account identical the one on iFORCECOM.  The Clustrmap on iFORCECOM has been active since December 2008 with just 14,114 unique visitors as of today.  By contrast our Clustrmap has been active only since June 2009, with over 45,000 visitors as of today.

What's our point here, simply that Admiral Allen needs to consider practicing what he preaches and actively participate in social media.  Coast Guard is a multi-billion dollar agency, and yet his FORCECOM blog lags incredibly far behind CGReport in readers.  That said, we recognize our readers are comprised mostly of senior Coast Guard officials, DHS and Congressional leaders.  Our first concerted expansion effort begins in earnest January 2010.

iFORCECOM

[caption id="attachment_7378" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Total visits to iFORCECOM since 11 Dec 2008: 14,114"][/caption]

CoastGuardReport.org

[caption id="attachment_7379" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Total visits to CGReport since 6 Jun 2009: 45,013"][/caption]