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US govt agencies get to join in on social networking

By scott

I notice that the US government has signed some new agreements with a variety of social media sites to allow federal agencies to follow President Obama’s lead by joining the likes of Facebook and MySpace to help increase citizen participation in government. The agreements resolve legal concerns found in many standard terms and conditions that pose problems for federal agencies, such as liability, endorsements, advertising, freedom of information, and governing law.

Of course President Obama already has the Whitehouse in full social media/networking tilt, with a presence on Facebook , Flickr , YouTube , MySpace , Vimeo and Twitter

Of course, here in the UK our own glorious leader has seen 10 Downing Street spreading its message via some of the same tools

Facebook, YouTube, Flickr , and Twitter

Although it has to be said they have been rather quiet of late on Twitter - nothing new for a week? Some might say an accurate reflection of the state of the current PM.

Full post as published by Information Overload on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).