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Tweeting The Government: Preliminary Findings From A Genre Analysis Of Canadian Federal Government Tweets, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luanne Freund, Mackenzie Welch
Tweeting The Government: Preliminary Findings From A Genre Analysis Of Canadian Federal Government Tweets, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luanne Freund, Mackenzie Welch
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Social media is rapidly becoming an integral part of the Canadian Federal Government’s communication plan. Its use has been institutionalized with the adoption of the Guidelines for External Use of Web 2.0, which provides policy guidelines for government agencies on using social media tools. Twitter, a microblogging site, has rapidly gained popularity with Canadian government agencies. The primary purpose of this research is to identify the communicative intents behind federal government agencies’ use of Twitter. A random set of 2,000 tweets were collected over a one month period in 2012 and were coded using a schema derived from both relevant …
Records Management And Peer-Reviewed Journals: An Assessment, Donald C. Force, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Records Management And Peer-Reviewed Journals: An Assessment, Donald C. Force, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
There currently exists no North American peer-reviewed journal for records and information professionals (RIM) devoted primarily to matters of active and/or semi-active records. Peer-reviewed literature is often cited as a characteristic of a profession. This project reports on research that questions whether there exists an expressed desire for a North American peer-review journal. The study also presents an analysis of the current journal landscape in the RIM and related fields.