USA.gov apparently is not the only government site making the major (and overdue?) leap into the modern Web 2.0 world by adding more accessible, interactive and sharable content and features such as news aggregators, widgets, tag clouds, and the like to their site.  I read on Slate's "Big Money" blog today, in an post rather interestingly called, "Social Media Saves Lives," that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, CDC.gov, is making many of these same moves.

Or, as Dan Mitchell, the author of the post, says, the CDC,

"is getting all Web 2.0 on us with a "Social Media Page" that provides all kinds of tools—ranging from highly useful to quite silly—for tracking information about the peanut recalls.  The page...includes blogs, databases of recalled products, widgets of various kinds for outside bloggers to use, links to YouTube channels, podcasts, links to Twitter feeds and the like."

It's encouraging to know that multiple government sites are finally beginning to embrace the social media web world by making their content more accessible, interactive, and shareable -- in other words, er...Web 2.0-able.  I hope to see this trend continue not just on national government sites but also on more regional & local ones too. (You may recall, for instance, an earlier post on this blog where I explained, and applauded, the fact that Schwarzenegger, on the California US Governor's page, has begun to implement widgets an the like).

Perhaps Steve Rubel's recent post on Micro Persuasion, titled "All Media is Social, All Social is Media" is all the more apropros.