Yesterday, TechCrunch posted some numbers showing that Facebook drives 44% of social sharing. Which is great, except that the cutesy pie chart does not include email as one of the forms that social sharing takes. And I think email is still pretty key, so I went looking for some numbers to test that assumption. Here’s [...]
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Email and Social Sharing
Posted in social media, uncategorized, Web 2.0, tagged addthis, email, ShareThis, sharing, statistics on 18 February 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Corporate Twitter”
Posted in bureaucracy, social media, tagged comics, twitter on 10 February 2010 | 1 Comment »
Source I love that guy in the lower left — he’d be a perfect civil servant. While I was laughing over this, I realized that this could easily be transposed to the government context — simply swap “Legal” with “Communications.” Us government communicators are also strong on accuracy and approvals, less so on timeliness and [...]
Breaking the #gc20 Twitterbot
Posted in social media, strategy, tactics, tagged #gc20, bots, feeds, hashtags, twitter on 25 January 2010 | 2 Comments »
At the end of last week, I made some tweaks to the #gc20 twitterbot I built — and today, the @gc_20 account started re-tweeting the same stuff over and over. Obviously stuck in a loop of some kind. Of course, my little bot blew up while I was attending a training session — so I [...]
@StatsCan Comes Alive
Posted in government, social media, tagged Government of Canada, Statistics Canada, twitter on 19 January 2010 |
Statistics Canada is about to start tweeting. The accounts @statcan_eng and @statcan_fra will begin posting links to The Daily starting tomorrow. What’s the significance? The national statistical agency’s Twitter accounts have been live but inactive since late 2008 — and combined, they have amassed nearly 1500 followers without a single tweet. As far as I [...]
AddThis and Finance Canada
Posted in government, social media, uncategorized, Web 2.0, tagged addthis, bookmarking, Finance, sharing, tools on 7 January 2010 | 2 Comments »
A while back I blogged about Finance Canada’s use of the AddThis widget to facilitate sharing their website content. Just noticed that the AddThis button has vanished from www.fin.gc.ca. Bummer! Here’s to hoping that it will make a reappearance once whatever issue they had gets sorted out.
Apples and Oranges
Posted in observations, social media, social networking, tagged Canada, Canadians, Forrester, Ipsos, research on 10 December 2009 |
In my post on Monday, I wondered at this data point from Forrester’s Social Technographics research for Canada: The study also found that 79% of Canadians take part in social media at least once a month, whether they’re checking Facebook, uploading a video to YouTube or posting ratings and comments on a blog. My wondering: [...]
Canadians Love Their Social Networks
Posted in research, social media, social networking, tagged Canada, Canadians, Forrester, Social Technographics on 7 December 2009 | 1 Comment »
Forrester finally does social technographics for Canada and guess what? We are extremely social. Maybe it’s got something to do with all the time we hunkered down and crouched over our keyboards during the cold winter months, but Canadians are the most active social networkers of any country in the Western world, according to the [...]
Final Thoughts on Public Servants and Contact
Posted in government, social media, social networking, tagged demographics, Facebook, michael wesch, students on 1 December 2009 |
A final thought on that Osbaldeston Lecture. Then I promise I will move on to something else. Social media is today’s contact sport and the sooner governments understand this new form of communication the better. What better way to let people know what is happening in your department or Ministry than by posting a blog [...]
Government 2.0: I’m Keeping a List
Posted in government, observations, semantics, social media, Web 2.0, tagged #gov20, government 2.0 on 26 November 2009 |
“Government 2.0″ means many things to many people. Here’s a list of a few variants, with some (slightly) tongue in cheek observations. :+) social media focus: using social media for government communications/marketing/outreach. This is about the outward face of government, mostly the domain of government communicators and marketers of the digital persuasion. Oh and” social [...]
Your job should be a ‘contact sport,’ PS told
Posted in bureaucracy, government, social media, social networking, tagged citizen engagement, digital engagement on 20 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Speech last night by Martha Piper, ex-President of UBC, as reported by the Ottawa Citizen: In a speech at the National Arts Centre, Piper likened today’s public service to the declining popularity of the wristwatch. Everyone over age 50 wears one, but most Canadians under 25 don’t. The wristwatch only does one thing, tell time, [...]
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