I have to say that one of the more interesting takeaways from WordCamp was how wildly used it was. There was great presentations of how Education has turned towards it. There was a presentation about a project to use WordPress as a backend to create your own personalized Social Network. But the most interesting in some ways was the fact the US government has found it suecure enough to use it themselves…
Here is a list (probably not all-inclusive) of United States government agencies or organizations using WordPress (whether privately or publicly):
- Air Force
- Army
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Coast Guard
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of State
- Department of Treasury
- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
- Marine Corps
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Agency
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Navy
[List provided by Mark Janquith]
Tags: Blogging, government, Interesting, Irony, Security, Wordpress
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