Government 2.0 - Best Practices Wiki

 

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Hey everyone, the intent of this wiki is to compile a central list of current initiatives (and eventually "best practices") involving social media and government. These can be internal or external, marketing, HR or IT, it doesn't matter. I even added a special "unofficial" category at the bottom of each page for all side initiatives. Let's see what we can come up with. Please keep your entries very high level and only fill out what you know. If you don't know the answer to one of the fields, leave it blank. If you see an error, please fix it! Should you have any questions or suggestions for improvement please email me here: mike(at)mikekujawski(dot)ca. Good luck! - Mike Kujawski

 

If you are unsure how to use a wiki, please watch this video first.


Index

 

Government 2.0 initatives
Tweeple directory

 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Government

 

Federal

 

Department/Agency Name

Initiative  Type
Objective/Purpose

Social Media Channel(s) Used

Results

Lessons Learned

Key Contact(s)

Additional

Comments

 

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

 

External

 

Raise awareness around upcoming legislative changes to the Canadian Citizenship Act.

 

YouTube

 

Waking up Canadian

 

Se réveiller Canadien

 

Drive as many people as possible to the CIC external website to learn more about the important changes to citizenship law.

 

2 so far:

- Get approvals on distribution strategy as early as possible.

- Have everything in place and ready to rock BEFORE publishing vidz.

 

More to come...

 

Twitter

robwiebe

 

Email

robert.wiebe

 

Phone

613 941 7088

 

 

 

25,000 views already and growing

 

(Posted Thursday April 9, 2009)

 

Our goal is 50,000 views.

 

As of May 20, 2009: over 150K views for English, over 27K for French

 

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

 

Internal and External

 

To enable organizations to integrate the NOC database directly into their Internet applications.

 

NOC WebSite
XML Feed

 

Timely access to current, real-time NOC data presented in your own look and feel.

 

 

 

NOC-CNP

 



Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

 Internal and External

Internal: Faciliate team collaboration. External:Increase impact/reach. Enable proactive, frequent communication that is immediate - that invites conversations about health & safety

Internal: WIKI for social media planning; External: Workscape discussion board, Twitter, WIKIPEDIA, webinars, podcasts, SlideShare account, Facebook page, blog in development

 

 

 

 

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner

External  

Privacy Commissioner Blog

 

 

Colin McKay Great idea to disclose the authors

Canada School of Public Service

 

The Centre of Expertise in Communities of Practice

 

Internal Communities of Practice (CoPs): Knowledge exchange, collaboration, social networking and learning, document repository

Communities of Practice Portal

 


  People, people, people - it's not about the technology Bev Mitelman
The Centre's mandate is to promote and implement CoPs and social learning approaches within the federal Public Service
Office of the Secretary to the Governor General External  

Citizen Voices Blog 

 

 

   

Department of National Defence

External

 

News Rss Feed 

 

 

  Recycled Press Release

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

External  

DFAIT YouTube Channel

Facebook Groups (unofficial)
RSS Feeds
Podcasts

Videos

Foreign Policy eDiscussions

 

 RSS - Providing RSS feeds means you need to rethink your article titles so that they are meaningfull when viewed in a feed aggregator.

Nathalie Gervais

Seems very one-way at this point

 

On point above - Policy eDiscussions have been running for four plus years...

External

(Canadian Embassy, Washington DC)

Connect2Canada - Canada's Network in the United States

Website (and RSS)

Facebook

Twitter

Podcast

Flickr

YouTube

Upcoming

FriendFeed

 

Internal To provide collaboration tools to DFAIT employees in the context of the overall Transformation Initiative.

DFAIT Wiki

 

IBM Lotus Connections social media software (includes functionalities like blogs, communities, dogears, activities, dynamic employee profiles like Facebook, )

 

Public Safety Canada

External

 

News Rss Feed

Cyber Warnings 2008 Rss Feed

Daily Infrastructure Report Rss Feed

Genuine Blogger Relations (example)

 

 

  Recycled Press Release

Government of Canada Hub

External

 

Rss Feeds of Every Department

 

 

   

Natural Resources Canada

Internal

 

 

External

Improved internal collaboration

 

 

MediaWiki

 

 

CFS YouTube Channel

Bookmarking

 

 

  MediaWiki based
National Research Council Canada External

NRC Podcasts -

Drawing on interviews with NRC researchers, business people and subject matter experts, these 10-minutes podcasts introduce subjects such as the environment, your health and a variety of technological advances. Mostly a PR exercise to sensitize the listener to NRC's role in improving the lives of Canadians, while informing potential business partners of NRC's competencies.

Podcast Unknown      
National Research Council Canada External

CISTI Lab Wiki

MediaWiki        

Library and Archives Canada

External

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


External

Understand the Second Life platform; determine what utility it might have for libraries & archives

 

 


 

Some Second Life presence and participation

 

 

 

 

 

 


Flickr album

Flickr geo-tagged image map

 

Valuable contacts & collaborations; could have done more but resources were limited

 

 


More than one person should be involved to maintain a  viable departmental presence in SL


Donna Dinberg
 
  
  
 
 
 
 

Anna Lehn
 

Public Health Agency of Canada

Internal & External

Listening, Participating and Initiating. Social Media monitoring. Using Social Media to reach the audiences on the issues of Public Health.

RSS (ENG)

RSS (FRA)

Mobile (ENG/FRA)

Twitter (ENG)

Twitter (FRA)

Facebook (ENG)

Facebook (FRA)

YouTube (ENG/FRA)

Flickr (Soon)

 

Share Feature on the PHAC Site

Case Study and Report will be made available on request soon.

 

Mark Hudson & Marquis Cote  
Canada Post  External    SecondLife Presence     

Stephanie Bullock

 
Treasury Board Internal   ADM Wiki Experiment        
Treasury Board Internal A collection of resources created by the Public Service, for the Public Service intended to help us work better in the service of Canadians MediaWiki based GCpedia     Thom Kearney borrowing a little from the US Govt's Intellipedia experiment
Intellectual Resources Canada External An inter-departmental and inter-sectoral initiative seeking the participation of any community engaged in the joint creation and evolution of data, information or knowledge. Trac's wiki & project management tools        
Canada Revenue Agency  External

Reach multilingual audiences in alternative format

RSS Feeds

Tax tips to go (Audiocasts)

     

 

 

Canada Revenue Agency External Crowdsource anti-"underground economy" videos. YouTube Contest        
Statistics Canada External Engage students and teachers Learning Resources Podcast      Media Relations  
Statistics Canada External Reach targetted audiences, use Web 2.0

RSS The Daily news releases; CANSIM updates;

2011 Census Dissemination Discussion Forum /

Forum de discussion sur la diffusion du Recensement de 2011

    Media Relations  
Statistics Canada Internal Training materials / Collaboration Wiki (various divisions)      

 

 

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

External Mashup Tool to help newcomers to Canada make informed decisions about where to live and work

Working in Canada Tool - mashup that pulls data from a variety of GOC and non-GOC sources.

Number of Web Services developed with database holders. Aim is for clients not to have to visit 6-7 sites to get complete labour market picture.   

Benoit Verreault

 

Kelly Archer

 
Canadian Food Inspection Agency  Internal Information sharing and collaboration

Yahoo Groups

Google wiki

Considerable interest, but limited use to date Changing behavior will be a long, difficult process Albert Simard  Primary need is to service external clients 

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

 Internal Small closed Working in Canada Pilot Wiki between Federal and Provincial players who are working on Immigration Portals  JSP Wiki  Informal best practice Information sharing taking place between feds and Provincial players with common goals.

Slow pick-up.  Regional folks not yet educated on how to use Wiki.

 

May switch to Media Wiki in

Benoit Verreault  

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (Goint to Canada Immigration Portal)

External Social Media Pilot Strategy being developped to invite clients to discover specific areas of our Web Site that they may not be aware of. (current plan is for 2 notices per week)

Twitter.com (English)

(Français)

(Chinese)

Facebook (English)

(Français)

Youtube

(English)

(French in dev.)

Orkut

(English in dev.)

XiaoNei.com (Chinese)

 

   

Benoit Verreault

 

Kelly Archer

 

Policy Research Initiative (including Canada@150)


300 active policy analysts plus invited outsiders doing Horizon Scanning and foresight in a year long project.

New Meta-Scan project uses same tools with a growing number of people across the Federal government doing scanning

Explore how new collaboration tools can facilitate policy research, analysis and foresight

Jive / Clearspace (with 5000 active wikis, 2500 discussion groups, self-organizing project management and polling)

Mind 42 (for online group scenario development)

Go to meeting

Survey Monkey

You Tube

plus open source video conferencing tools

Anthony Williams, the co-author of Wikonimics said it was one of the most innovative uses of the technology he had seen.

Participants say the software helps them be more effective but face to face meeting are important.

Both technical expertise and new group skills are needed to make it all work.

It challenges the traditional culture of the bureaucracy

Peter Padbury

 

Stef Christensen

 
Canadian Tourism Commission External

Finding and sharing news stories

Drupal based Social Bookmarking Options
 

Tagged news releases (although not by the public)

 

       
Communications Research Centre (Industry Canada)     

Drupal based CLF 2.0 website

 

Rss feed

       
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Internal Cross-departmental collaboration, file sharing, event management, and discussion support. HRSDC Interactive Forum In production since July 2007. Now have over 2500 registered users in 150+ communities. Custom, in-house solutions can be a cost-effective alternative. Al McFarland  

Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages


Commissariat aux langues officielles

Internal/External
Interne/Externe
Media/Internet monitoring + PR applications

 

Surveillance des médias et Internet + applications de communication publique

RSS feeds

Google News alerts

Possible blog


Canaux RSS

Alertes Google News

Possibilité d'un blogue

Better all-around issue monitoring


Meilleure surveillance générale des enjeux

  Robin Cantin  
CIDA & others External a look at Cnada's engagement in Afghanistan through photos, video, audio

 

AfCam website

YouTube Channel

Flickr Photostream

Facebook Page

 

       
National Housing Research Committee External   masups, rss, social sharing on main website
       

 

 

Health Canada

Strategic Policy Branch

 

 

 

Internal

 

Collaborative intra-governmental Environmental scan

 

HC Intranet Wiki

       
Industry Canada Internal

"Connect, Contribute, Collaborate…". The ICWiki is a corporate knowledge repository and a platform for collaboration.

Wiki using Confluence

A Confluence based internal wiki has been used by CIOB at IC for 3 years with good results (over 800 users). It was expanded, rebranded and launched as IC's Corporate wiki on June 16, 2009.

     

 

 

 

Provincial

 

Department/Agency Name

Initiative Type
Objective/Purpose

Social Media Channel(s) Used

Results

Lessons Learned

Key Contact(s)

Additional

Comments

Government of Ontario External   Social Media Releases        
Government of Ontario  External  Recruitment  SecondLife presence         
Premier of Ontario External   You Tube        
Government of Ontario
Ministry of Government Services
External online collaboration on broadband with stakeholder groups Interactive website Digital Ontario     Digitalontario@ontario.ca  
Government of Ontario
Ministry of Revenue
External   RSS Feeds
Social bookmarking
Twitter (en Français)
       
Government of Ontario
Ministry of Finance
External   RSS Feed
Social bookmarking
Twitter (en Français)
       
Government of Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs External   Podcast        
Foodland Ontario External   Twitter        
Alberta Geological Survey  External  Reach our younger audiences and extend communication reach.

RSS Feeds

Facebook

Social Bookmarking

Podcasts

Podcasts are now our most popular downloads.

 

  Gisela Hippolt-Squair  In process of converting our intranet into a wiki. 

 Service Canada

 External

Add options for job seekers to get job updates

RSS Feed

http://www.jobsetc.ca/toolbox/job_search/jobSearchRSS.do

 

 

   

Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

External

Learn about the Environmental Bill of Rights; read reports online

MediaWiki

Twitter

 

 

Hayley Easto using mediawiki as CMS (locked for public editing)

British Columbia Securities Comission

External

InvestRight investor education program

Blog

YouTube (various other video sites via TubeMogul)

Facebook

Wikipedia

Delicious

Twitter (Director)

Twitter (staff)

 

Videos are most popular right now. 

Have a strategy and be prepared to spend time with it. 

Anthony Wong Next step is to increase participation and integration to support and grow community.
British Columbia Securities Commission External Industry website RSS        
British Columbia Securities Commission Internal internal communications

Blogs

Wikis

       
Ontario Government Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing External education Facebook page and YouTube yet to be seen learning as we go Ania Sroka  
Ontario Government Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing internal employee communications blog on intranet more two-way comm requires time / resources to keep fresh    
Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (MNDM) External Extend communication reach and new potential audiences

Twitter

RSS feed for individual programs / news releases 

Social Bookmarking

  Still learning Jason Guitard, Jennifer van der Valk  

 

Municipal

 

Department/Agency Name

Initiative Type
Objective/Purpose

Social Media Channel(s) Used

Results

Lessons Learned

Key Contact(s)

Additional

Comments

City of Ottawa External   RSS Feeds        
City of Ottawa Internal Improved internal collaboration; and cultural change Blog & Wiki   Start with a pilot & get a strong senior champion  e-Media Team  
City of Ottawa External To allow residents to easily track  crimes occuring in their area Mashup         
City of Guelph  Internal  Reducing silos by providing corporate wide collaboration.  Blogs, Wikis, SharePoint Team Sites, Interactive Leadership Training program, Forums, eCards, Employee profile webpages     Web Services   
City of Guelph  External  Improved communication with residents  Mayor's Blog, Flickr page, Youth Blog, Facebook Group (coming soon), Google Maps, Google Transit (coming Soon), RSS Feeds, Tourism RSS, Council Meeting Live Feeds, Twitter with updates added using twitterfeed     Web Services    
City of Toronto External   Twitter:  City, Council, 311 ; Web2.0 Summit; toronto.ca/open        

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Unofficial

 

 

Name

Description
Author(s)

Additional

Comments

Public Sector Marketing 2.0 A blog providing fresh insights on government, association, and non-profit marketing in a Web 2.0 world Mike Kujawski  
CPS Renewal Blog An unofficial blog on public service renewal operated by public servants.  The blog points at information that may be of interest to those interested in renewal, and exclusive commentary posted every friday.

Nicholas Charney 

Mike Mangulabnan

 
CanuckFlack A blog about public relations, marketing, retail quirks, government communications and oddities … and written in Canada! Colin McKay  
GovLoop A Social Network for government employees and consultants Steve Ressler  
SpotCrime Google maps + police crime reports = easy to use mashup. Crime maps for communities all over the US, as well as many Canadian cities, and other cities across the globe.    
Calgarypedia A wiki for present and future Calgarians. Calgarypedia is a registered trademark of Calgary Economic Development.   Powered by MediaWiki

Worksafe BC

The Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia has a Twitter account and a YouTube Channel.

   
CommonLookandFeel.ca A community space where those who work for and on Government of Canada Web projects can come together to share, learn and create. digitalOttawa, Partners & The Community Powered by Wordpress and Drupal

CLF 2.0 Discussion

A discussion site about Common Look and Feel themes, from within a CLF 2.0 theme.  Discussing accessibility challenges, theme improvements, etc..

OpenConcept & Forum Contributors Powered by Drupal
eaves.ca A blog that frequently touches on the intersection between public service sector renewal, public policy, technology and open source David Eaves
The Government of Canada 2.0 A blog about the government of Canada and Web 2.0

Douglas Wai-Chung Bastien

Spaghetti Testing A federal government communicator blogging about Web 2.0, social media, etc. Peter Smith
     

 


 

 

Comments (20)

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Melanie Lamoureux said

at 2:36 pm on Oct 16, 2008

Hey Mike, how come aren't we able to see the full table? Thanks!

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Peter Smith said

at 3:19 pm on Oct 16, 2008

Is that DFAIT wiki external? Link please!

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Mike Kujawski said

at 11:01 pm on Oct 16, 2008

Melanie, the only thing that I can think of is that your sidebar needs to be collapsed (press the little arrow). If your screen resolution is under 1024x768 then this is likely the problem. Please let me know if you still can't resolve this issue.

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Mike Kujawski said

at 11:03 pm on Oct 16, 2008

Peter, I think it's internal, although I'm not the one that added it.

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Melanie Lamoureux said

at 8:29 am on Oct 17, 2008

Thank you for your answer Mike, but my screen resoultion is actually correct. I might be innocent, but the problem seems to be the sidemenu that overlap, and which I can't "minimize".

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Mike Kujawski said

at 10:08 am on Oct 17, 2008

Melanie, if you follow the top title bar (where the buttons "view" and "edit" are) all the way to the right, there should be a little arrow. This allows you to hide the sidemenu.

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Melanie Lamoureux said

at 10:56 am on Oct 17, 2008

In case someone else is facing the same issue, please note that there were actually no arrow showing, but I just clicked on the end of the blue bar/tab and it worked! Thank you for your advice Mike.

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Brigitte Torok-Watkins said

at 8:29 am on Oct 24, 2008

Melanie - I also had the same issue and followed your advice. Problem resolved. It may have something to do with our old software (at least mine is!).

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Mike Kujawski said

at 4:43 pm on Oct 25, 2008

If anyone else is having usability issues with this wiki, please let me know.

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Benoit Verreault said

at 2:30 pm on Nov 6, 2008

Been thinking about the Twitter "Following" feature as I develop a Social Media Strategy for my initiative. I was initially going to sidestep this feature and not use it. It may be neat and useful for GOC initiatives to use the follow feature to create a network of the fed resources that use Twitter. It woud be a way to highlight each other and help users tap into the network of GOC Twitter resources.

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Mike Kujawski said

at 11:52 am on Nov 11, 2008

Great idea, definitely worth a try!

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Scott Smith said

at 9:30 pm on Nov 12, 2008

Benoit, if you are thinking about Twitter for GoC, do you think Yammer? It has the advantage of a closed system - only people within the email domain can belong. What do you think?

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Mark Faul said

at 2:29 pm on Dec 12, 2008

Would be nice to have a directory of Canadian Government Twitterers akin to http://newthinking.bearingpoint.com/2008/11/20/govtwit-directory/ in the US

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Mike Kujawski said

at 3:53 pm on Dec 15, 2008

Mark, I've been meaning to do that for a while now! I will create a separate section for people to input their Twitter user names

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Anthony Wong said

at 11:33 am on Feb 13, 2009

Where would I enter the social media projects of international associations made up of Government agencies such as the North American Securities Administrators Association who's membership is comprised of Provincial and State securities regulators?

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Mike Kujawski said

at 9:01 pm on Feb 25, 2009

Hmm...looks like we need a wiki for associations and non-profits...i've been thinking about this for a while now...i should have something for you soon

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Lia said

at 12:09 pm on Mar 23, 2009

Has anyone sent a message to their employees about the implications of Facebook? I have been asked to prepare a communication to send via email to gov't employees; discussing how their personal accounts can have implications on their professional lives etc.
Has anyone drafted something similar?

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Mike Kujawski said

at 9:57 am on Apr 20, 2009

What happened to the "provincial" and "municipal" sections? I am going to have to revert back to an older version....

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Mike Kujawski said

at 10:00 am on Apr 20, 2009

If you have added something and see it missing...please add it again

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Mike Kujawski said

at 10:06 am on Apr 20, 2009

Lia, I would stay away from mentioning a specific tool (i.e. Facebook) and focus more so on the concept of online privacy. Don't simply send a "fear-inducing" email but rather re-enforce the concept of "thinking 3 times" before posting something online...anywhere...not just Facebook.

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