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Cabinet members brief Amercan citizens in Year One videos

Luke Fretwell
February 1st, 2010 · 1 comment
Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Departments, EPA, Education, Energy, Gov 2.0, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior, Justice, Labor, Office of Management & Budget, State, Transportation, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, White House

President Obama’s Cabinet taped ‘Year One’ videos to highlight their respective department or agency’s 2009 accomplishments and or goals for the next year.

What do you think? Which are most informative? Authentic? Is this an effective way to familiarize citizens to public servants and put a face on government?

Gov 2.0 Hero and Director of Web Communications Environmental Protection Agency Jeffrey Levy talks Gov 2.0.

What was your path to Gov 2.0?

I started doing Web 1.0 at EPA in 1994, and I’ve been working with great people ever since, both at EPA and not. As the new tools came along, it was a natural progression. Much of Web 2.0 meshes very well with our broad mission, after all. More specifically, I first did Web 2.0 when my team was tapped to help then-Deputy Administrator publish his blog a couple of years ago.