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Social Networking and an Impartial Public Service
A bit late on blogging this, but anyhow. Last week there were a couple of stories in the Ottawa Citizen (on Thursday and Friday) that touched on impartiality in the federal public service. From the...
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Social Networking in a Workplace Context
I came across this infographic behind the GoC firewall. It’s timely given the recent discussions that have been occurring around the future of GCconnex, the GoC’s pilot social networking project. So...
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Your job should be a ‘contact sport,’ PS told
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...
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More on the Wristwatch/Blackberry Analogy
Last Friday, I quickly re-blogged a news item on the 2009 Osbaldeston Lecture, by Martha Piper, former president of the University of British Columbia. Over on my Posterous miniblog, a reader reacted...
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Creativity in the Bureaucracy
From Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen: Maria Barrados, president of the Public Service Commission, has commissioned a study on the implications of generational turnover as the baby boomers retire. The...
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“Corporate Twitter”
"Corporate Twitter" - Brand Camp by Tom Fishburne 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...
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The Clerk is Online
Reaction to the news that the Clerk is on Twitter Wayne Wouters is the Clerk of the Privy Council. He’s the most senior civil servant in Canada, and now he has his own digital footprint. Yesterday he...
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GCpedia: Updated Screenshots and Statistics
It was about a year ago that I first shared a snapshot of GCpedia. Here’s an update. Screenshots Home page has gone through a major revision and is now much simpler. Click the thumbnails to see full...
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In-Between Spaces
Friday thought about social media, the workplace and generating ideas. The following appeared in the comments thread on a lighthearted post about things not to say if you are trying to get your org to...
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Putting Web at the Centre of Government
The speed with which the American federal government has been moving forward with its web agenda is nothing short of breath-taking. From open data to social media, mobile and beyond, the American...
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