{"id":329340,"date":"2010-02-16T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:50:44","slug":"help-us-serve-you-better-by-being-more-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/329340","title":{"rendered":"Help us serve you better by being more open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/open\/images\/OpenEPA_share.jpg\" alt=\"Open EPA logo\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Have you heard about President Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/assets\/memoranda_2010\/m10-06.pdf\">Open Government Directive (PDF)<\/a> (81K, <a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/epahome\/pdf2.htm\">about PDF<\/a>)? Under this plan, we&#8217;re looking for your help making EPA more transparent and finding ways for us to work with you better. The ultimate goal? Getting the best ideas for how we can meet our mission of protecting health and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m personally excited about this new effort because it ties in so well with many other projects that use new tools to connect with you and get you involved.\u00a0 One of the first was this blog, launched in April 2008.\u00a0 Since then, we&#8217;ve started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/epahome\/socialmedia.html#Facebook\">Facebook fan pages<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/epahome\/socialmedia.html#Twitter\">Twitter accounts<\/a>, put together <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/oswerforum\/\">online discussion forums<\/a>, done some <a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/live\/\">live video webcasts<\/a>, and launched <a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/pick5\">Pick 5 for the Environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/open\">new open government Web site<\/a>, which links to many innovative projects and our social media sites.<\/p>\n<p>It also shows our progress on several milestones.\u00a0 The next one is to write our open government plan.\u00a0 It&#8217;s due April 7, so until March 19 we&#8217;re using a special\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openepa.ideascale.com\">idea collection system<\/a> to get your thoughts about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what should be in the plan<\/li>\n<li>how we should prioritize what we publish<\/li>\n<li>how to improve the quality of our information<\/li>\n<li>new ways of doing business and new tools we should be using<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also vote and comment on other people&#8217;s ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to hearing from you!<\/p>\n<p><em>About the author: Jeffrey Levy is EPA&#8217;s Director of Web Communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about President Obama&#8217;s Open Government Directive (PDF) (81K, about PDF)? Under this plan, we&#8217;re looking for your help making EPA more transparent and finding ways for us to work with you better. The ultimate goal? Getting the best ideas for how we can meet our mission of protecting health and the environment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}