The document discusses the establishment of the Greenversations blog at the EPA. It provides details on developing content, managing comments and replies, legal and policy considerations, and staffing requirements. Bloggers were identified and trained using a blogging guide. They monitor and reply to comments to encourage dialogue. A comment policy was developed based on other successful blogs to avoid issues like personal attacks. Legal advised keeping politics out and avoiding positions on ongoing rules to prevent implied endorsement. Approximately half an FTE is used to manage the blog.
Bloggers are educated in and work on topics they blog about which means the science has a conduit for getting back to the commenter via the bloggers monitoring their post and replying to comments
QOTW Coordinated campaigns or general questions thrown out for folks to ponder and exchange thoughts about. Receive the most comments More publicity via EPA press release to more than 50,000 people. In fact, in response to several of these questions, we posted follow-up blogs summarizing the comments we received. Don’t do press release for all due to complaints SPAM SW Posts are coordinated and submitted by out Office of Research and Development. BiLinqual “ Testing the water” for a Spanish blog
And wouldn’t take no for an answer 3. cropped, but he didn’t like it 4. which then led to the idea of having an EPA-wide blog focusing on everything EPA did and everyone in the Agency. 5. Current bloggers are permit writers, scientists, lawyers and everything in between which creates multiple avenues of communication on all sorts of topics.
1. we invited the State Department to come to talk with us about their blog, DipNote, 4. (for example, URLs in posts or mentioning a specific product)
Reporters are asked to send questions to the EPA Newsroom through their normal channels and to refrain from submitting questions here as comments.
which would include - corresponding with the bloggers, - working with OGC for legal clearance, - formatting and scheduling into the blog software the Agency uses. There are several other team members who have the ability to moderate comments, as well as prepping and scheduling the blog posts. OPA web team manages the homepage and the top layers of the EPA web site About 500 people are involved in EPA website. Throughout the program offices, and the 10 regions
1. EPA has their own server which is located at EPA’s National Computer Center located in Research Triangle Park, NC 2. because HHS had a good experience with it and it was a small purchase (about $1,000) 3. when Greenversations was launched, we really wanted to have it in-house.