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Canadians speak out on the future of government eServices

I just came across an excellent new research report from PWC. It has a rather long  name “Next Generation of  eservices – CitizenCompass – Enhancing service delivery in the Canadian public sector“, however it’s quite informative nonetheless. Essentially its purpose was to ask Canadians how they are interacting with government now, and how they would like to interact in the future regarding service delivery.

Confusion Surrounding Social Media Monitoring

Here are some verbatim responses I often get when asking public servants the following question: “Have you ever monitored social media while at work?”

  • “social media monitoring is not our responsibility, it’s done by the [comms/web/IT] people]”
  • “we have a social media monitoring tool gathering info for us”
  • “we already do  media monitoring”
  • “our [branch/department/organization] doesn’t have time for social media monitoring”
  • “we are already ‘doing’ Google Analytics”

Here are my short responses to each: