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GoC Web Widgets

Posted in government, Web 2.0, web communications, tagged , , on 4 May 2010 | 7 Comments »

screen capture of the jobs.gc.ca search widget

The jobs.gc.ca search widget

Last week, I learned about a search widget for the jobs.gc.ca site. It’s a simple little badge that can be deployed in the right column of any gc.ca site (I gather it’s only being distributed with the GoC realm at this point). Users can start their job search from the widget. See the widget in action on the Public Service Commission site.

Love the idea of widgets as a means to extend your presence beyond the confines of your own site. Widgets also have the advantage of allowing people to take complex actions — such as starting their job search — from wherever they happen to be encountered. Compare this to email or RSS, where often, the action that can be taken is limited to clicking through to your landing page (and then doing whatever it is that you wanted them to do in the first place). A difference of degrees maybe, but still.

I already knew about the widget for Working in Canada from HRSDC. But are there more out there? I searched a little the other day but couldn’t find anything. But I’d be surprised if there weren’t others. If you know of any, please drop a comment or otherwise flag me down.

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Working in Canada: The Widget

Posted in government, social media, tactics, tagged , , on 19 November 2009 | 1 Comment »

Innovative HRSDC program Working in Canada has added another online point of presence – an embeddable widget.

Example of the Working in Canada widget in action

In addition to their social media presences, the Working in Canada team has now developed a code snippet that can be dropped on to any web page to allow access to the Working in Canada site. It’s a great way to spread awareness and distribute access points to the Working in Canada tool across the web.

It’s not fully self-serve (yet?) — if you want to add the widget to your site, you will need  to contact the program by email to request it.

The program appears to be doing some blogger outreach as well. I was contacted earlier this week by an analyst from the program alerting me to the launch of this latest feature. He pointed me to two examples of where the widget has already been deployed: www.peterboroughcareers.com and www.immigrationpeel.ca.

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If I Was the GTEC Blog

Posted in blogging, collaboration, social networking, tagged , , , , on 7 October 2009 |

OK so the frist day of the GTEC conference is over and the second one is getting underway.

I just checked out the GTEC blog to see if there were any posts outlining highlights from yesterday. Nothing. Last post is from Oct 5, and was a primer for one of sessions from yesterday. To keep momentum up, why not a post about what took place?

I fully understand that in the midst of putting on a big conference, it’s hard to sit down and pull together some coherent copy about the day’s highlights. There’s a lot of other stuff going on, and resources are usually stretched thin in the heat of an unfolding event. So why not take advantage of the steady stream of tweets about the event?

A quick search reveals lots and lots of relevant content in the Twittersphere.

And best part is that this can be automated. I’m thinking here about a blog post with an embeddable widget — like ScribbleLive or CoverItLive, for example — to pull in tweets about GTEC that hit the right keywords or hashtags.

While not as coherent as a well-written blog post, grabbing tweets about the event would help to show the level of action happening. Even better, it allows the blog’s readers to make connections with others who are at the event or interested in it. And having something fresh on the blog as your event is occurring is far better than nothing at all.

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