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USAGov’s mission is to make government information accessible and easy to understand. To help fulfill that mission, our Outreach team builds and grows relationships with agency partners, supporting their public engagement campaigns to reach more people. 

Each quarter at USAGov, our data tells us a little bit about what's on people's minds. From April to June 2021, we saw a renewed interest in travel information and a big drop in demand for information on unemployment benefits. See what else we discovered.

For over a decade, USA.gov and USAGov en Español have used Twitter to reach the public and amplify information for our agency partners. 

2020 posed an interesting challenge for the USAGov outreach team. We needed to focus on getting the latest pandemic information to the public, and we wanted to collaborate with agency experts to promote other timely and important topics too. 

It has been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since that time, people have had many questions and concerns about their health, safety, and financial security.

Social media is a powerful tool that can help government agencies connect directly to the people they serve. Agencies have been using Facebook and Twitter for years. But many are still unlocking the power of Instagram to share resources in an engaging, simple manner.

The top 20 pages in 2020 for USAGov en Español represent a mix of interests. Topics included the coronavirus pandemic, election season, travel and immigration, and life in the U.S. Find out which pages were most popular in English on USA.gov in 2020.

The coronavirus and election season dominated not just news headlines but USA.gov's top 20 pages for 2020 as well. Find out what the top pages were for USAGov en Español in 2020.

How do people use Facebook and Twitter differently? Do they know which accounts and links in social media posts they can trust? What started as a USAGov study of people’s thoughts about short links in Facebook and Twitter posts taught us more than we were expecting.

Social media is a key part of the USAGov outreach strategy. It helps us share quick and clear information directly with the public. We regularly review our social media channels to see where we’re getting the best return on our investment.