DOC - Approved Services

Social Networking Services

FaceBook

Terms of Service agreement

NOTES Under the government TOS agreement, you will maintain the following message in a prominent location on your Facebook page: “If you're looking for the official source of information about about [Government Entity], please visit our homepage at [URL Link]."
To set up a Government Facebook page, here are the instructions (pdf).

MySpace

Survey

Survey Monkey

Terms of Service Aggreement

NOTES: No Government TOS required. Use of survey tools require individuals to contact the appropriate General Counsel staff for approval on issues such as records, privacy and employee and labor relations. The amendment only covers the free survey monkey product.

OFFSITE NOTIFICATION: You will be leaving the Department of Commerce Website for a destination outside of the Federal Government.  You may wish to review each privacy notice since their information collection practices may differ from ours. In addition, our linking to these sites does not constitute an endorsement of any products or services.

Survey Builder

Multimedia/Photo Sharing Services

Pinterest

YouTube

NOTES Videos must be captioned to conform to Section 508 requirements

Flickr

NOTES: Photos must contain "alt" tags to conform to Section 508 requirements

UStream.tv

NOTES: Videos must be captioned to conform to Section 508 requirements

iTunes University

Xtranormal

NOTES: No Government TOS required. Establishing a Xtranormal account must be completed throught the DOC application process to ensure accountability

Social Bookmarking

AddThis

Blogs/Micro-Blogs

WordPress

Twitter

No TOS required

NOTES: No Government TOS required. Establishing a Twitter account must be completed throught the DOC application process to ensure accountability

Storify

Idea Generation/General Discussion

IdeaScale

Google Moderator

Linkedin

Analytics, Surveys and Search Engine Optimization Tool

Google Analytics

Social Media Dashboard

Hootsuite

RSS and other Syndicated Feeds

Google Feedburner

Maps

ZeeMaps

Training

Drupalize.me

Other Web 2.0 Technologies that require no Terms of Service (TOS) Agreements

Disclaimer: Use of these technologies, hosted on government servers, do not require a Terms of Service agreement. Use of these technologies may be restricted by each OU/Bureau's internal network and CIO policies.

RSS Feeds (atom; etc)

Podcasts