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Agencies advance use of online social networking tools

by Carter Smith - Thursday, 7 February 2008, 06:04 PM
Government agencies are moving well beyond the experimentation stage in adapting online social networking tools to advance internal collaboration and in reaching out to citizens. Efforts by the Centers for Disease Control, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the intelligence community were among a number of working examples attracting public and private sector interest in Web 2.0 technologies at what is being billed as the largest Web 2.0 conference on the East Coast in Reston, Va., today. Janice Nall, director of eMarketing at the Centers for Disease Control, highlighted the various ways CDC is reaching out to the public using social networking and communications methods techniques. Many of the tactics, she said, are viewed internally as pilot projects, but are clearly making an impact. Among them:

• eCards giving consumers ways to send greeting cards that share health related messages with family members.
• Podcasts CDC has downloaded more than half a million Podcasts this year featuring health related information.
• Virtual worlds CDC opened a virtual flu clinic on Whyville.net, a site that explains a wide range of topics for children. Nall said 135,000 individuals visited the clinic which led to 20,000 vaccinations in a six-week period. CDC is also expanding its presence in Second Life, beyond a gallery of posters, toward hosting virtual health workshops.
• Social networks The agency is establishing a new presence on MySpace beginning next week, Nall said, but is also concentrating on posting resources and application widgets on three other sites, eons.com (targeted at those over age 50), DailyStrength.org and sermo.com (a physician-centric site).

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