Government agencies regularly rely on social media to engage with their customers for improved citizen services and cost savings. Social media integrates technology, social interaction, and content creation, using the "wisdom of crowds" to collaboratively connect online information. Read more about how the U.S. federal government uses social media.
Wordpress
Wordpress is a blogging service which the Office of Response and Restoration uses to communicate and stay connected through the publishing of posts featuring news, images, videos, and perspectives related to our work.
We maintain NOAA's Response and Restoration Blog at http://usresponserestoration.wordpress.com. We typically post two to three times each week to keep you abreast of what's new at the Office of Response and Restoration. In addition, we maintain the NOAA ESI Blog at http://noaaesi.wordpress.com, which is intended to serve as a forum for sharing news and ideas about Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps and data, an Office of Response and Restoration product.
Please note that you are subject to Automattic's privacy policy (Automattic Inc. is the company which owns Wordpress) when visiting our Wordpress blogs.
In addition, users may post comments on the Office of Response and Restoration's Wordpress blog posts. We encourage readers to leave comments on our blog posts; however, comments will be moderated and any comment submitted that contains any of the following will not be approved:
- Profanity and vulgar language.
- Personal attacks or threats of any kind or offensive terms that target identifiable groups.
- Promotes services or products (spam). Non-commercial links that are relevant to the blog post or comment are acceptable.
- Makes unsupported accusations.
- Comments that suggest or encourage illegal, dangerous, or destructive activity.
- Personal identification that identifies the commenter by name, etc.
- Long embedded URL strings.
- Duplicate posts.
- Off-topic comments.
- Comments that are really customer support questions (for that, please contact us via our agency website).
The Office of Response and Restoration is unable to post comments from children under the age of 13 due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If you are 12 years old or younger, you may e-mail us rather than posting a comment on the blog.
Moderating and posting comments should only be expected to occur during normal business hours.
Please note that you are subject to Automattic's privacy policy (Automattic Inc. is the company which owns Wordpress) when visiting and commenting on our Wordpress blog. Please see our privacy policy for more information.
Wordpress is a third party Web service used by the Office of Response and Restoration (part of the Department of Commerce) for outreach. The Department of Commerce does not endorse Wordpress, nor does the Department of Commerce have any control or responsibility for privacy on Wordpress. The views expressed in comments and in the blog posts on our Wordpress blogs reflect those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or the federal government.
