Working Out Social for .gov

摘要

In a January memorandum titled "Transparency and Open rnGovernment" (http://tinyurl.com/openg), President Barack Obama called for greater transparency in making information available online as well as more citizen participation in federal websites.rnThe concepts were embraced by Washington, already abuzz about new possibilities for federal web publishing. Friends who work on dot-gov websites began to walk a little taller, and why not? Federal intranets have leveraged blogs, wikis, and other new social tools for years, but public federal websites have remained almost entirely read-only. Obama's memorandum provides the impetus (and cover) to more freely experiment with the kind of Web 2.0 tools and approaches on public websites as well.