{"id":48,"date":"2012-02-29T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-05-09T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T15:57:35","slug":"almost-all-councils-now-allow-some-access-to-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2012\/02\/29\/almost-all-councils-now-allow-some-access-to-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost all councils now allow some access to social media…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So says a new SOCITM Insight,\u00a0Social media goes mainstream – but in the right way?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The report is available only to subscribers so I’ve not been able to see the detail but our own survey of social services practitioners – Blocked or unblocked<\/a>\u00a0– \u00a0suggests that access is still a problem for many. The findings of our survey will be published in the next couple of weeks but for now here are some examples of the practical and cultural difficulties reported by front line practitioners. One reported that while many sites weren’t blocked,<\/p>\n

the firewall creates significant buffering issues, and very few if any NCs [Network Computers] are enabled for sound. \u00a0So, you may be able to see a video on a website, but you will not hear anything and to all intents and purposes it will be unwatchable<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further, it appeared that the organisation was reluctant to accept the validity of internet based resources, including social media, being used for learning:<\/p>\n

The length of time spent online is monitored which makes some staff nervous accessing the internet. \u00a0This creates a hidden barrier and perhaps sends a tacit message that internet usage is not acceptable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The SOCITM report is based on surveys of\u00a0CIOs, Heads of ICT as well as web, communications, customer services, service and policy managers. \u00a0Our anecdotal evidence points to a gap between the perception of managers on the one hand and frontline staff on the other. One head of ICT reported his council operated a flexible arrangement which would enable access for all practitioners on request. \u00a0In practice the process turned out a little more bureaucratic:<\/p>\n

… as the process says I phoned the helpline to get access to this [Vimeo<\/a>, a streaming video service used by IRISS]. \u00a0I had to give the web address and confirm that this was for work usage – no problem there. \u00a0However, I now have to get my line manager or above to email IT to confirm that my request for access is approved. \u00a0If I want this access to be for more than myself I have to give a list of names – hence to have everyone in social work able to access video clips on IRISS I would have to list all 2,000 staff names…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem of course is that this creates hassle for users, line managers and help desks alike. \u00a0While SOCITM’s new report suggests some progress since its 2010 report\u00a0Social media: Why ICT management should lead their organisations to embrace it<\/a>, people on the front line still face real barriers, rather than being actively encouraged to embrace social media.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already taken our survey, which tests whether your organisation allows access to services such as Twitter, Vimeo, Delicious, Flickr, Doodle, there is still time: \u00a0https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/YTGNQKJ<\/a><\/p>\n

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So says a new SOCITM Insight,\u00a0Social media goes mainstream – but in the right way?\u00a0\u00a0The report is available only to subscribers so I’ve not been able to see the detail but our own survey of social services practitioners – Blocked or unblocked\u00a0– \u00a0suggests that access is still a problem for many. The findings of our… Read More »Almost all councils now allow some access to social media…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,60,6324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}