NASA built its own community building, collaborative workspace site. NASA’s CoLab program develops and supports online and offline communities collaborating with NASA. With the involvement of many NASA centers, CoLab provides frameworks for partnership projects between the nation’s space program and talented, creative, tech-savvy communities. In addition to getting people more interested and involved with the space program, CoLab provides a way for individuals to actually contribute to NASA.

Many government agency networks and groups have sprung up on sites like Facebook. EPA’s facebook network, for example, has over 750 members anyone with an EPA email address can become a member of the group. There are similar examples for most agencies.

USA.gov started a Facebook USAgov page in March 2008, for RSS feeds, videos, photos, and other news. The public is invited to become a “fan” of that page.

The CIA has used Facebook to invite students to apply to work at the agency.