The EPA’s web presence and outreach – some assembly required

Google Alerts are great. They lead you to all kinds of nifty little discoveries. One of the recent discoveries I made, just a few hours ago, is that the EPA is holding an online/video meeting to help the public by answering questions on the principles of “reduce, reuse and recycle” as far as solid waste management goes.

That is really nice. But, I found a couple of shortcomings, that I want to write about here and maybe email EPA about them:

Shortcomings of the EPA’s online efforts

While the outreach by the EPA is very good, and I would like to watch the meeting myself, here are a couple of observations.

1. How is it that the general public can find these meetings so that they have enough notice to prepare and/or listen to the meetings? That part seems to be shrouded in some type of enigma here.

2. There appear to be errors on the website – a little too obvious. Here is a glaring one at the bottom of the page where the web meeting is advertised (linked at the end of the post):

I am not trying to build mountains here so that some EPA-haters can do some virtual top-removal here. It is just that when doing outreach like this, the EPA is best advised to fix errors, especially obvious ones….here’s to hoping!

The meeting itself:

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/videotownhall.htm

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February 23, 2010 Posted in: EPA