Information & Ethics committee  Instead of people coming to our websites and finding the data, we're taking the data out to where the people are online. Social media that may seem a little lightweight take that data out there to where people are living. So you're on places like Flickr. You're out there in Twitter and it's actually bringing information to people who would never look for it, and that's an exciting next step in this process.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. It's representatives from the federal agencies working together to talk about a lot of the things that Beth discussed: best practices, how to implement and make happen all the information from the open government directive.

Information & Ethics committee  I'd like to add that staff are getting more comfortable with openness in government. As we work on social media projects in which they get involved, if they do a blog post or start tweeting, they get to a comfort level and a trust is built between them, among each other and the public.

Information & Ethics committee  The data sets were in XML, so that was easily put on to data.gov. In part, some of the data sets that we chose were the low-hanging fruit, what is easily put on to data.gov. We used XML, and that works well.

Information & Ethics committee  What was exciting about working on the open government plan was the opportunity to really create a plan based on open government. The process we used was to ask folks for their opinion. What would they like us to release? What kind of data do they want to see up there? We used a social media tool, IdeaScale, to ask the public to participate and tell us what they'd like to see available.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. We've always surveyed and tried to get a good bead on who is using our data. In opening it up on opengov, it's no different from what we've known traditionally. We have a wide variety of users--educators, researchers, veterans, the general public--who are looking at our data and using it.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have any--