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Social media accounts becoming ubiquitous in Congress
Nearly all members of Congress had official Twitter or Facebook accounts as of last year, a new report from the Congressional Research Service says. In the House, three-fourths of members had official accounts on both websites as of January 2012, compared to about two-thirds of senators, says the report, dated March 22 and posted online by Secrecy News .
Pinterest helps Navy meet non-traditional audience
Pinterest is among the three most popular social media tools and the fastest growing. Most importantly for the Navy, Pinterest users are creative, engaged and more than 60 percent are female--helping the service reach a non-traditional audience.
OSHA ranks worst in guaranteeing scientific freedom of expression
Government scientists have gained more whistleblower protection and freedom to express personal opinions under the Obama administration, but most agencies still do not give scientists access to drafts and final revisions in which their work played a part, a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists found .
White House puts the brakes on runaway petition site
The White House has raised the signature threshold petitions on its We the People website must reach to receive an official administration response after the administration was inundated with both serious and inflammatory petitions that reached a previous threshold.
Tips for multilingual social media from State Dept. and GSA
Social media managers with non-English-speaking audiences should make sure the links they post will be useful for those audiences, Mariya Bouraima of the State Department said in an October webinar.
Voters increasingly post their ballot outcomes on social media
In a poll (.pdf) of 1,011 adults living in the continental United States conducted over landline and cell phones from Nov. 1 through Nov. 4, Pew researchers find that 22 percent of registered voters have let others know how they voted on a social networking site such as Facebook or Twitter. The poll has a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.
Data visualizations enhance transparency, says IRS official
Providing access to a data set only goes halfway in delivering transparency; infographics and data visualizations are the second phase of open government, according to one Internal Revenue Service official. "We're trying to redefine what we mean by data user," said Wayne Kei, chief of communications and data dissemination at the IRS's statistics of income division.
GSA launches social media account registry
The General Services Administration unveiled a tool Aug. 16 allowing those with email addresses ending in .gov or .mil and a valid phone number to update or add to the registry of official federal social media accounts.
Social media loosens up gov't hierarchy
Social media has led to a democratization of information within federal agencies and has resulted in new opportunities for more junior civil servants in unanticipated ways, said panelists at the Management of Change conference.
OPM focuses on improving citizen services in refreshed open government plan
Not only will the centralized system make it easier for the public to get answers from OPM, the plan says it will streamline operational functions and, in the process, align with administration goals of reducing duplication.
