Episode 18: Social Media at NASA
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With social media a driving force on the Internet, sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are becoming important tools for government agencies to speak directly to citizens. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is one of those agencies, with an ample social media presence highlighting the work the space agency does.
Veronica McGregor works in the news and social media office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is responsible for the Mars Curiosity Rover's Twitter feed, as well as the Asteroid Watch feed. She tells host Mark Micheli that Twitter is a way to get JPL information "directly to the public" in a way that wasn't possible before 2008.
The music in the podcast is John Pazdan's "The Long Goodbye," used under a Creative Commons attribution license.
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