Military Services Win Social Media Kudos

The Armed Services -- particularly the Navy and Marine Corps -- made the best use of Facebook in 2010 among government agencies, according to a new survey.

Facebook's Washington office in late December 2010 asked a handful of social media experts and fans on three Facebook pages (Congress on Facebook, U.S. Politics on Facebook, and Government on Facebook ), for their thoughts on which politicians and government agencies were the most Facebook savvy.

Respondents praised the Navy for posing interactive questions and responding regularly to wall comments. And they commended the Marine Corps for having close to 1 million followers, which is the most of any military branch.

Fans gave honorable mention to the Environmental Protection Agency; Veterans Affairs Department; and the Disability.gov page, which the Labor Department's Office of Disability Employment Policy administers.

Meanwhile, in a separate survey about Twitter, Washington Post readers rated NASA as their favorite government user.