GSA Signs Deals For Agencies To Use Social Media 14
An anonymous reader writes "Agencies can now engage with citizens through popular media technologies such as video-sharing service YouTube, using pre-negotiated service agreements that comply with federal terms and conditions. After nine months of negotiations, the General Services Administration signed agreements with four video-sharing and social networking sites: Flickr, Vimeo, blip.tv and YouTube. GSA also is negotiating with the social networking sites Facebook and MySpace. 'We found when we reviewed standard service agreements that they were not a good enough fit for the [requirements] of the federal government,' said Michael Ettner, GSA general counsel."
Please disengage (Score:1)
A whole new way for the government to help us.
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Service guarantees citizenship! (Score:2, Funny)
Would you like to know more?
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I'm doing my part!
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Why reinvent the wheel? If youtube lets you host videos for free why should 20 different govt agencies try to do it themselves? And if they are posting public information again it would be better for it to be on someone else's machines. If the agency was hosting on one of their machines the risks would be higher, since they would have to make sure that public facing machine was guarded and secured very well so that if someone found a vulnerability they could access other parts of the network that weren't me
Has to be said... (Score:2)
Service agreements. (Score:2)
'We found when we reviewed standard service agreements that they were not a good enough fit for the [requirements] of the federal government,' said Michael Ettner, GSA general counsel.
All your Diggs are belong to the Feds?
Gotta admit it's probably cheaper... (Score:2)
than the government trying to do it themselves.
Excellent! (Score:2)