Government Websites - OMG There Are a Lot of Them!

Hi All,

Don't know if you know this or not, but the United States government has many, many different websites. Let me explain...

I imagine that you know there are different branches of government, right? For example, there is the executive branch, and the legislative branch, and the judicial branch of government...(click on any of the highlighted and underlined links to visit that particular branch of government).

Well, the federal government has gotten very smart - they created a website called USA.gov where users can type in the name of an agency, department or organizations in the government. Essentially this is 'the go to site' to find almost anything related to government - whether or not it is federal, state or local government.

Why such a good site? Well, there is a link to the National Debt, National Parks, the American Civil War, a super helpful link to contacting government and a link to 'Getting it Done Online'.

OMG! I haven't event touched upon the specifics of each department yet! For example, I'll start with the Department of Health and Human Services - if for no other reason than we are all concerned with health related topics...click here for the direct link to the HHS (Department of Health and Human Services).

Once you navigate your way to the site you are faced with a very easy to read, easy to navigate, clear website with many, many choices. For example, there are links to HHS News, HHS Jobs, HHS Grants/Funding, HHS Families, HHS Prevention, HHS Diseases, HHS Regulations, HHS Preparedness, and more. Whew - what a mouthful.

On the lower half of the first page of the HHS site, users will find links to the Secretary's Key Initiative Sites - including Healthcare.gov, StopBullying.gov, StopMedicareFraud.gov, FoodSafety.gov, InsureKidsNow.gov, FLU.gov, and Let's Move (there are other categories on this part of the page, but at this point, I suspect that get the idea...)

So, now that you get a basic idea of what the HHS site covers, imagine the vast amount of information that the federal government produces for all of its myriad other departments (Education, Defense, Agriculture, Energy, Commerce, Veteran's Affairs, and many, many others...)

Can you say information overload? Can you also say, 'thank you federal government for making all this information readily available on the USA.gov website?' I thought so.

Regards,

Stu


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