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Obama Administration Opens Up Government to New World of Social Networking

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Time: “At the new President’s urging and by his example, the entire Federal Government [well, not really] has bounded into the world of social-networking. Twenty-five agencies now have YouTube channels. The Library of Congress has begun posting thousands of free historical photos on Flickr. In the past week alone, about 30 agencies, including the White House, have joined Facebook.”

  • News release: “The U.S. General Services Administration now has a terms of service agreement with Facebook, a site with more than 200 million active users and MySpace a leading social portal for connecting people, content and culture. GSA has also reached agreements with Blist which provides a consumer focused service for publishing data on the web, Slideshare a site for sharing of PowerPoint, word and PDF documents and AddThis, a bookmarking and sharing platform reaching more than a half billion users worldwide.”
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