October 25, 2023 - Updates, priorities of the week

Back to GC Web Priorities Meetings - Réunions des Priorités Web du GC

Meeting information

Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

Notes and action items

Updates

Page feedback tool

• Was supposed to be released yesterday, but postponed
• New release date expected imminently

Roundtable

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ECCC - sustainability strategies

Will work with teams to get strategies for sustainability - Marylin Brooks is the contact at ECCC

FCAC

• Financial literacy month
• FLM campaign page - check website
• Theme: Check your financial health, they put up the pages and also a newsletter to stakeholders, then also a promotional toolkit, social media images, ready to use articles, social media toolkit
• They also feature existing pages
• Do a lot to inform stakeholders
• A lot of cross promotion on social media with other departments and Service Canada, at the service canada service points
• Work with ESDC and CMHC for example
• Contact: Martine.carrier@FCAC-acfc.gc.ca

VETERANS AFFAIRS

Remembrance Day and Veteran’s Week

• This year’s theme 75 years of peacekeeping
• Senior leaders wanted more interactivity, so they added QR code to educational poster, takes you to a landing page with the 75 years of peacekeeping theme, which contains educational videos about peacekeeping missions
• Produce a lot of learning materials for schools
• Lots of news stories about peacekeepers in action, will be featured on social media
• Nov 8, Indigenous Veteran’s Day
• Canada.ca takeover one day
• Social media sharing with partners such as DND and other departments
• They are curious how the increased use of interactive features will affect traffic and retention on the site, they will use analytics to see if the interactive features were effective

Question: Did you lower the reading level for the materials aimed at elementary school children

Answer: Yes, we did adjust that material for the audience

DTO

Q2 TSS results

• Small increase in green tasks last quarter
• We are holding steady in task completion this year, which is a slight improvement since last year
• Some tasks with very high rates, some even reaching the 90s, great job teams!
• Other tasks had some great gains this year, including passports and benefits for people with disabilities
• But there are still some tasks that we’d like to see improve
• Some of this information could help your team lobby senior management for time and space to work to improve, as a prioritization cue

Questions and comments

Will this be presented at the Web Executive Board?

A: Yes, DTO has presented this regularly at Web Executive Board, so should come as no surprise

Are there any things DTO is going to do differently for next quarter?

A: Working hard on findability. We are also still working on our transition, which can take away some of our focus on other issues at this times.

When will TSS results be available for department reps?

A: Emails should be going out this week. Also, it’s posted on the GCPEDIA page

https://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/wiki/Government_of_Canada_Task_Success_Survey_reports

GAC

• We will be posting new content about the Industry for Ukraine forum
• Will be coming shortly

PCO

• Please be mindful of problems with infographics
• Happens more often on social media, might not be a good practice to reuse infographics
• Make sure that they are be legible on mobile devices
• Keep in mind accessibility issues if you re-purpose infographics
• Guidance coming soon on when to use infographics

DTO

• Broken links, let’s try to be proactive in reporting and fixing up broken links