# Presentation: 109049

## Agenda

- Welcome and Round Table – 10 min
- New Governance Section (NREL) – 5 min
- EERE Web Redesign (GTI) – 15 min
- Social Media (Drew/NREL) – 15 min
- FY09 Funding (Sarah/Michael) – 10 min
- Questions/Discussion (Sarah)
- Next Meeting (Sarah)

## Welcome and Round Table

## Agenda

- Welcome and Round Table – 10 min 
- New Governance Section (NREL) – 5 min
- EERE Web Redesign (GTI) – 15 min
- Social Media (Drew/NREL) – 15 min
- FY09 Funding (Sarah/Michael) – 10 min
- Questions/Discussion (Sarah)
- Next Meeting (Sarah)

## Governance Section

## Agenda

- Welcome and Round Table – 10 min 
- New Governance Section (NREL) – 5 min 
- EERE Web Redesign (GTI) – 15 min
- Social Media (Drew/NREL) – 15 min
- FY09 Funding (Sarah/Michael) – 10 min
- Questions/Discussion (Sarah)
- Next Meeting (Sarah)

## EERE Web Redesign

## EERE Site Analysis and Redesign

- Home page Information Architecture (IA) following the Card and PET Sorts

## 63 of 78 recruited participated

- In-Person:  23
- Remote:	   40

- Recruiting for Card and PET Sorts

## EERE Home Page Audience Groups

**Education: ****	****  15**
- Educators: 	    5
- Students:	    3
- Researchers:     7
**Decision-makers: 29**
- Businesses: 	  13
- Government: 	    8
- Non-profits:	    8

## Card Sort / PET Sort Online Tracking 

- Card Sort / PET Sort Online Tracking
- Spreadsheet

## Work Planned for June 2008

- _June 10__th_, Card Sort & PET Sort Analysis Meeting
- GTI and HFI review activity findings
- Use sorting results, survey opinions, and comments to “fine tune” development options
- _Week ending June 20__th_, Sorting Activities Report Draft
- _Rest of June_, identify content per the Inventory Reorganization objectives to increase overall usability of the site as an outcome

## Agenda

- Welcome and Round Table – 10 min 
- New Governance Section (NREL) – 5 min 
- EERE Web Redesign (GTI) – 15 min 
- Social Media (Drew/NREL) – 15 min
- FY09 Funding (Sarah/Michael) – 10 min
- Questions/Discussion (Sarah)
- Next Meeting (Sarah)

## Social Media

- Definition
- Elizabeth and Drew

## Social Media Benefits

- Creates awareness to new audiences
- Bring content to their space
- Create a dialogue with audiences
- Peer to peer sharing of information
- Effective as part of a targeted campaign

## Social Media Technologies

- RSS, Podcasts, Syndicated Feeds
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Video & Photo Sharing
- Social Networking & Microblogging
- Social Bookmarking
- Mashups
- Widgets
- Mobile Applications
- Virtual Worlds
- eGames

## EERE TAO & Social Media

- RSS feeds on ENN stories
- Communications Standards blog
- Solar Decathlon blog and podcasts
- Tracked EERE rankings in Technorati
- Draft Blog Policy
- Launch Consumer Blog in FY09

## EERE Programs & Multimedia

- Audio – _[Hydrogen](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/education/hydrogen_report.html)_
- Videos - _[Biomass](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/)__, __[FEMP](http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/financing/superespcs_fda.html)__, ITP, Vehicle Technologies, _
- Animations – ITP
- Standards – Podcasts, Video, Multimedia

## Tips for Using Social Media

- Use social media as part of overall Web strategy and plan
- What are you trying to achieve?
- Is the tool appropriate for audiences and content?
- Do you have funds and staff to support it?
- What are the goals and measurements of success?
- Work with TAO on approvals and standards
- View explanations of various social media tools on YouTube (from home) _[http://](http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leelefever)__[www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user](http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leelefever)__[=](http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leelefever)__[leelefever](http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leelefever)_

## Federal Agencies & Social Media

- View presentations from _[Web Manager’s Forum](http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WebManagersForum/Web_Manager_University_Annual_Conference_2008)_
- Visit USA.gov _[list of RSS feeds](http://www.usa.gov/rss/index.shtml)_
- Visit USA.gov _[list of government blogs](http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/News/blog.shtml)_

## Agenda

- Welcome and Round Table – 10 min 
- New Governance Section (NREL) – 5 min 
- EERE Web Redesign (GTI) – 15 min 
- Social Media (Drew/NREL) – 15 min 
- FY09 Funding (Sarah/Michael) – 10 min
- Questions/Discussion (Sarah)
- Next Meeting (Sarah)

## FY09 Funding 

- Redesign
- Content inventory
- Implementing new template
- RedDot Accounts

## RedDot Maintenance Budgets

- Lawrence Wiggins – Our Maintenance Manager
- Plans & Agreements prepared for review
- We’ll be setting up meetings in the next 2 weeks with each of the programs
- Plans for FY ’09 – Redesigns, New Sites, Applications

## EES Activities Update

- The “Server Centralization” Task
- Recent Development Activities
- Builders Challenge:  Password Protected, Online Applications
- TEAM Initiative: Password Protected Website, Data Collection Screens, Reporting, Graphing and integration with COGNOS Executive Information System.

## Agenda

- Welcome and Round Table – 10 min 
- New Governance Section (NREL) – 5 min 
- EERE Web Redesign (GTI) – 15 min 
- Social Media (Drew/NREL) – 15 min 
- FY09 Funding (Sarah/Michael) – 10 min 
- Questions/Discussion (Sarah)
- Next Meeting (Sarah)

## Questions/Discussion

## Next Meeting

- July 10, 2008
- 	1:00 pm