FrontPage barcampOttawaGov The Event? A chance for Government of Canada employees to get together and talk about what they're doing with social media and new technologies. A chance to meet others in communications, marketing, web development, design (and any other job description) to find some inspiration, some motivation and help build a community.
It's a lot like the hugely successful event held over in the United Kingdom last month, and New Zealand before that. Ideas, demonstrations, crazy suggestions, projects already under way - and all on a schedule set up by the people who show up ready to participate.
Just take a look at all the people blogging about egovernment and government 2.0 already.
When? DATE CHOSEN - September 5, at the Code Factory.
How Long?
We think there's enough happening inside government departments to take up a whole day - in demos, discussions and Q&A sessions.
Will There Be Food? YES The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages is sponsoring lunch for up to 40 people.
What Will It Cost?
The cost will be low. Very low. Like $10. That will pay for coffee and snacks.
Who Can Attend?
CHANGE After five or so discussions about participation (both online and
offline), I think we've arrived at a solution:
1) The September 5 session will be open to GofC employees and long term contractors who effectively work as part of a GofC team. This will give participants the chance to speak as frankly as they want and
to help establish a baseline of common understanding and awareness across all the departments and agencies participating.
2) At the second event ( to be scheduled, but likely this fall), it will be open to whomever wants to participate.
I don't mean to discriminate against consultants and agencies doing some very important work in social media, but I feel that there are some legitimate and fundamental questions about how social media may
affect the work and careers of civil servants. These have to be discussed.
Who's Participating?
Add your name and email address (blog, flickr, twitter, identi.ca or anything else also welcome). Or you can email it to Colin.
1) Carolyn Tateishi c_tateishi@hotmail.com
2} Ian Ketcheson - ian at ketcheson dot com
3) Greg Johnston - ballagher at yahoo dot ca
4. Peter Smith - spaghetti.tester@gmail.com
5) Chamika Ailapperuma - chamikak (at) gmail (dot) com
6) Kerry Colpitts - kcolpitts at gmail dot com
7) Graham Jack
8) Michael di Cola
9) Anatole Papadopoulos
10) Angelina Munaretto
11) Martin Simard
12) Barry Nesbitt bnesbitt@magma.ca
13) Laura Wesley
14) Marquis Côté (Public Health Agency of Canada)
15) Nathalie Gervais
16) Hillary Hartley - "quepol" everywhere - I am coming to ALI's Social Media for Gov't conference 9/15-18. Is there any way barcamp could be that weekend - 9/13-14?? Could be good to piggyback onto their attendance.
17) Robin Cantin robincantin(at)rogers(dot)com
18) Justin Kerr-Stevens - backing @quepols suggestion...
19) Andrew Norman - andrew_norman@hc-sc.gc.ca
20) Felicity Mulgan (CSPS)
21) Mike Kujawski www.mikekujawski.ca
22) Tracey Arnold Tracey.Arnold@cra.gc.ca
23) Amen Jafri, Health Canada
24) Caroline Cote, Health Canada
25) Kathleen Soucy, Health Canada
26) Jean Hachey, Health Canada
27) Nick Charney
28) Dan Matko, Industry Canada (matko.danatic.gc.ca)
29) Paula Colwell, CSPS
30) Julie Sperling, CPSA, julie.sperling(at)cpsa-afpc.gc.ca
31) Robin Browne, Transport Canada - consciousimages(at)gmail(dot)com
Is There Limited Seating?
Yes. We figure we can find a space for 50 to 60 people. We already know about 20 that will attend, so make sure to add your name to the list of participants and sign up for the Google Groups mail list.
Can you Make A Presentation?
Add your name and presentation title here.
Ian Ketcheson - I'll figure out something to talk about. Maybe something on selling your ideas to senior management.
Kerry Colpitts - I could talk about how we got senior management on board at CRA, too, and some of the projects we're doing and looking at. We should be about to launch our YouTube contest when this starts, which is pretty interesting.
Anatole Papadopoulos - I could briefly cover (1) some of the challenges I've observed in efforts to roll out common Web 2.0 tools across the Public Service (2) work on GEDS 2.0 (the internal linkedin/facebook concept) and (3) the Web 2.0 experience with the Canada@150 project. I could also touch on the "wish list" topic below about generations, having worked on this in the renewal context at PCO.
Robin Browne - Working title: "Do before you advise - how to do a weekly podcast."
What Subjects Do You Want Covered?
Add your wish list here
- NRCan's wiki experiment
- PWGSC's DM blog
- National Defence live chat feature
- PM's facebook and YouTube page
- Governor General's blog and social media community manager role/maintenance plan/structure for blog production and publication
- Making the business case for a social media communications approach/tactic
- How to encourage 'collaboration' (or at least co-operation) using wikis, how to get people involved--word of mouth? What works best?
- Édition d'entrées Wikipedia - les bénéfices, le comment, les bénéfices
- Social media for learning (informal and formal)
- Bridging the generation gap(s): what do young public servants expect re: social media in the workplace, and how do we get older generations on board?
- Current status of social media monitoring in the federal government
Volunteers
Can you bring drinks, snacks, food, thousands of multi-coloured post it notes, entertaining slide shows, a mime? Just put a note here.
- No mime, but I'll bring some cookies (Caro)
How to get in touch?
Colin McKay colin@canuckflack.com
Join the Google Groups Mail List
Sign up for the barcampOttawaGov mail list on Google groups.
Is This An Official Event?
This is not an event put on by the Government of Canada. You can argue with your boss that this will be a highly effective low-cost training opportunity, and if you really need it we can make up a convincing yet completely untruthful conference pamphlet to help make the argument.
