Canadian Government Embracing Social Media

May 26, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Canadian Government Embracing Social Media

The Canadian Government will combine Identity technologies with social media to enable their Open Government 2.0 strategy – Enterprise 2.0 – and it will be available to the public.

The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ was coined by MIT Professor Andrew McAfee, who became widely known for the topic following his MIT white paper ‘Dawn of Emergent Collaboration’, describing how organizations could greatly improve their knowledge management capabilities through adopting the social software that powers Web 2.0 sites, like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc.

We found this interesting piece of news on Sys-Con Media in their article, “Open Hypermedia Government – High performance public service.” Of course, we already knew the power of social media and semantic technology. But it will be interesting to see its application in the government sector.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.