Comments on: Putting the Federal Government on Facebook – My New Job

By: Blake Newman

Blake Newman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:35:18 +0000

Congratulations on the gig. I’m sure with the new administration, you’ll have many more social networking project management opportunities.

By: Mammoth Tuesday

Mammoth Tuesday — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:48:36 +0000

Give the government a super-poke for me!

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:41:15 +0000

Congratulations! You and this project were meant to be.

BTW, in IE6 this particular blog post appears completely blank except for the big letters (T, U, A). And yes, I still use IE sometimes. Don’t judge me!

By: Anittah Patrick

Anittah Patrick — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:58:54 +0000

Oooh! Hey! As it turns out! I was just thinking about this yesterday morning in fact …

http://anittahpatrick.com/thinking/should-the-gubmint-build-a-social-network/2008/07/31

By: Lisa Brewster

Lisa Brewster — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:12:43 +0000

Congratulations!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:16:37 +0000

Jed,

Bienvenido! We are thrilled to have you on board and Captura Group supporting GobiernoUSA.gov and USA.gov.

I hope the return to office life is treating you well. Considering you are inhabiting my old office, I hope you are treating IT well. That is, until we move to our swanky new digs on the other side of Hillcrest. Bread and Cie for lunch anyone?

By: lee

lee — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:32:47 +0000

Jed … again, congrats. We will be coming to you for lunch soon :)

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:09:19 +0000

Thank you both for the comments and clarification. I’m lucky to be working w/ people who are so passionate about their work and who really understand the potential of social media.

By: Bev Godwin

Bev Godwin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:43 +0000

And we are delighted to have you Jed. We are glad you and Lee found each other.

Thanks for using your blog to let others know about the great work we are embarking on.

We are glad you and Captura will help us expand what we have already started in social media for both USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov. You will not be starting from scratch. We already have presence on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and MySpace as we began to experiment with social media to see who it could help achieve our mission to help the public easily find U.S. government information and services. We look forward to you helping us take this to the next level. And you are right, other agencies watch what we do, so your work will have an impact governmentwide and throughout the U.S.

One clarification. GobiernoUSA.gov is its own portal, not a translation of USA.gov. If we had translated USA.gov it would point to English sites. We began GobiernoUSA.gov in the same way we began USA.gov. That is, we looked at who the audience was for the site, what they wanted from government, and then began a complete inventory of what government information was available from federal, state and local governments in Spanish. We then organized the information to make it easy for the public to find and use. We have been using public feedback to continuously improve GobiernoUSA.gov over the last three years.

By: leilani

leilani — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:54:04 +0000

hi jed,

i loved this entry…i wonder why ;o)

welcome to the team! glad you’re doing ok and i’m really happy to hear that you’re enjoying this opportunity AND the lunch options! ;o)

ah! one thing i wanted to mention and just so you know gobiernousa.gov was launched in 2003 and was developed by government employees. the spanish site is not a direct translation of usa.gov but a unique site created for the Spanish speaking community…just thought it was important for you to know.

anyhow hope all is well. i’m sure we’ll catch up soon.

have a great weekend.

un abrazo,

leilani