April 17, 2024 - Updates, priorities of the week
Back to GC Web Priorities Meetings - Réunions des Priorités Web du GC
Meeting information
Agenda
Updates
PCO
- Congratulations to all for the work on the budget
- Budget bleeds into ad approval budgeting
- We’re expecting ad campaigns coming soon, also with tracking capabilities such as Adobe campaign
Roundtable
Principal Publisher
- 11 news items for Budget put through AEM, and 6 non-news items
- The visuals looked great, everyone was happy
- GC search:
- Our contract with the current search provider is ending this year
- We have found a new provider for the search engine, a Canadian company named Coveo
- We are getting ready to reach out to teams that are involved with search
- We will need to work with teams to refine and test the search
Question: Did the search email go out to all AEM publishers?
Answer: Yes it did.
Question: Is the search assessment tool that DTO is working on being incorporated into the internal search tool?
Answer: Yes, DTO will work with PP to refine the search with the Search Assessment Tool.
- We offer A/B testing and personalization service
- We work with Adobe Target
- It’s integrated with Adobe Analytics
- Personalization
- Allows you to display customized web content to users
- Examples include geographic, mobile vs desktop, new vs returning users etc.
- How does A/B testing work?
- Traffic is randomly allocated to different variations
- Example - My Service Canada Account - Requesting access code
- Ran a test for 7 days using 4 different variations to see which had the highest click-through rate
- We keep a library of past testing on GCPEDIA
- These tests support digital government
- Digital ambition
- Policy on Service and Digital
- Digital Standards
- This is a cost-recovered service
- Institutions can get access to Adobe Target to create and manage your own tests and personalizations
- We offer training and support
- Contact us: gc.analytique-analytics.gc@servicecanda.gc.ca
Question: How can we add to the library?
Answer: Just reach out to us and we can add it.
DTO - Institutional landing page
- Launched this week. More details can be found here: New stabilized institutional landing page template
- ILP is the mandatory landing page for institutions and agencies
- We’ve stabilized the Beta version (available since 2021)
- We’ve clearly marked which elements are mandatory and optional
- You can reuse elements for other web purposes
Question: Are we back to using images for Ministers?
Answer: When we took out the pictures, we saw that many departments used images anyway. Then we were specifically asked to include the images for this iteration.
Question: Is the WET 4 version updated with the new ILP components?
Answer: Yes, everything should be good, the changes were merged into WET 4 today.
Discussion - Meli-melo - Principal Publisher
- There are only a few users that have implemented the older version of meli-melo that caused problems
- This situation is similar to ROT - it’s up to departments to make sure content is working properly
Question:
It can be difficult to keep up these developments without any notice. Is there any plan to ensure that a similar problem doesn’t happen again?
Answer:
Meli melo is a way to experiment. Principal Publisher gives departments a checklist, and we’re here to help. It’s not a service that will expire that we can give notices about.
If a deprecated Meli-melo stays on the page, it doesn’t necessarily mean that pages will break.
Question:
Could there be a heads up before moving from one version of Meli-melo to another?
Answer:
The dates are indicated on the page Méli-mélo features - Canada.ca (wet-boew.github.io)
Agriculture and Agri Food Canada
- Our AgPal chatbot is back online https://agpal.ca/en/home
National Research Council
- X and new thick redline has been implemented - this is manual until the WxT Drupal file are provided.
DTO
- Reminder that the Generative AI Chatbot kickoff mtg is tomorrow. See Slack Chatbot channel if you missed it or contact lisa.fast@servicecanada.gc.ca.
Principal Publisher
- WET-BOEW office hours are every Tuesday
- Walk-in from 1pm to 2pm (Eastern time)
- Booking available from 2pm to 4pm (Eastern time)
- Check this link for more information: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew/wiki/WET-Office-hours,-Heures-de-service-de-la-BOEW