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It’s been a crazy week.

I’m currently providing web comms consulting to The Public Health Agency of Canada. We’re in the midst of the Swine Flu outbreak, and I have to say I’m extremely impressed with how things are being managed.

I’m also really excited to be finally executing a lot of the social media plans we’ve been evangelizing about over the last year. We’ve got the agency Tweeting news updates as they happen, syncing all social media activity across the .gc.ca site, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. We also put together a live webcast in record time (John, you’re wicked).  I’m hoping to add some more of our ideas in the next few days.

I think Canadians should be proud of the way PHAC has been managing this issue, so many people here are working so very hard 24/7 to ensure Canadians stay informed and the governement acts in a proactive manner.

Kudos GC.

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Last Tuesday Marquis Cote, Tamey McIntosh and I headed down to Toronto to deliver a presentation on social media in government. Marquis and Tamey were getting up in front of the crowd, I was providing support.

They did a great job talking about how Publish Health Agency of Canada has used and will be using social media to better meet it’s mandate. There was a lot of nodding going on in the room, especially around e-governance.

I took a cue from the presentation that came before us, Microsoft speaking about developer networks. Barnaby Jeans was talking about using twitter and flickr and blogs all together, so I thought I’d do it for our presentation.

While Marquis and Tamey were speaking I was shooting pics of them with my iphone, and pushing them live to my flickr photostream. I also texed my twitter with a link to the steam, and of course both of those were pushed through to this blog, all in real-time.

It was great to show a live, recursive example of social media through showing the crowd my activities online at the end of our talk.

It’s too bad we couldn’t stay longer to take in some of the other talks.