On May 11th, 2010 in response to hearing about a colleague\’s blog that was blocked by a government IT policy I wrote this post expressing my frustration over the practice.
Rather than just vent, I created this page to list blogs about government, areas of subject matter expertise relevant to government and about the public service that various Canadian Government Federal Ministries block their employees from accessing. I’ll mark a department as “confirmed” if two people from that department contact me and tell me a blog is blocked; it will be marked “unconfirmed” if only a single person contacts me.
If you work for the government and there is a blog that offers relevant content that you are not able to access please let me know, I’ll add it to the list. Alternatively, click on the Copy Edit button below and edit the page directly.
Eaves.ca (yes, CPAC links to me, as has the Globe and Mail, and numerous others, but I’m apparently a threat)
- Canadian Border Services Agency (confirmed)
- Health Canada (Confirmed in the Calgary Region, but not blocked in BC – possibly elsewhere? - biggest irony here is that they’ve hired me to give talks)
- Indian and Northern Affairs (confirmed)
- Department of Justice (confirmed)
- Canada Revenue Agency (unconfirmed)
- Public Works and Government Services Canada (Pacific Region) (Confirmed – I also recently gave a talk to their middle management team, so unfortunate in its timing)
The Snarky Optimist – a blog by a public servant
- Indian and Northern Affairs (confirmed)
- Department of Justice (unconfirmed)
- Canadian Border Services Agency (unconfirmed)
- Canada Revenue Agency (unconfirmed)
CPSrenewal.ca – a blog by a public servant on Public Service Sector Renewal and Social Media
- Public Works and Government Services Canada (no longer blocked as of May 31st, 2010?)
- Canada Revenue Agency (unconfirmed)
Dries Buytaert – a blog by the creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform (not government you say? well, I’d argue the founder of drupal is precisely someone a government IT person should be interested in).
- Canadian Border Services Agency (confirmed)
- Canada Revenue Agency (confirmed)
- Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada (confirmed)
OpenParliament.ca – a website that allows one to search the Hansard. Have had public servants tell me it is invaluable as it allows them to track key files and issues as they are discussed in the House.
- Department of Justice (confirmed)
Others?
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