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Situation
• NOAA’s 200th Celebration in 2007 highlighted the rich history of science, service, and stewardship provided to the American public by NOAA and its predecessors.
• NOAA 200th Anniversary events happening around the country.
• Telling the story of NOAA.
Challenge
• Need to publish news of events from around the country, in a timely manner, using different contributors. Can’t teach them all Dreamweaver.
• Must be published on http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/
• Have to follow the site’s editorial review process.
Solution: WordPress/RSS
• Contributors blog at http://noaa200.WordPress.com/
• http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/ subscribes to WordPress RSS2 feed using Feed2JS parser.
WordPress
• Contributors trained in WordPress.• Contributors can write but not publish. Only
an Editor or Administrator has rights to publish.
• Editorial guidelines provided and all posts edited prior to posting.
• “Blog Operating Plan” laying out roles and responsibilities created.
Advantages
• Very easy to use. Contributors can be trained rapidly and easily.
• Contributors can’t publish and can’t break anything.
• Fast, efficient web publishing process.
• Contributors can blog from anywhere.
Disadvantages
• Security. WordPress.com is not as secure as NOAA.gov
• Gov’t info on a non-gov’t site.
• Dependent on an outside site (WordPress.com) and a parser (Feed2JS).
• Not a true CMS.
Next Steps
• Building upon a successful experiment.
• Install blogging software on NOAA server.
• Identify potential blog topics and bloggers.
For More Information
• http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/chronicle.html
• http://noaa200.wordpress.com/
