The Environmental Protection Agency invites anyone over age 18 to contribute to its ongoing photo project. Using Flickr, the agency will feature user-submitted photos to celebrate Earth Day on April 22. It chose the photo sharing platform “to encourage participation and provide maximum public access.” Photos can be submitted until April 30. The project (which was promoted on [...]
A closer look at the EPA’s Blogging Guidelines and how they set an example for other federal agencies.
It’s great that many federal agencies are actively embracing blogs. These blogs, such as the EPA’s Greenversations and the State Department’s Dipnote have great content and are popular with constituents. However, one issue that is frequently discussed is that many of these blogs do not allow comments. While both Greenversations and Dipnote do allow comments, [...]
With Twitter being all the rage lately, there are bound to be questions about how the popular microblogging tool should be deployed in government. Some agencies fully embrace Twitter, giving the intimidation of government a human face. Others simply have no clue what they’re doing. Accordingly, their follower count reflects that. But, you can’t blame [...]
On a recent Internet-wide trek for information about the federal government’s use of social networking tools, I stumbled across this page on Webcontent.gov. The page, written by USA.gov Director Bev Godwin, stated the following as one of a few “examples of government using social networks:” “Many government agency networks and groups have sprung up on [...]
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