Comments on: The real voice of an online civil servant? http://www.sosaidthe.org/2008/02/05/the-real-voice-of-an-online-civil-servant/ How Government Organizations Communicate and Integrate Social Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: James http://www.sosaidthe.org/2008/02/05/the-real-voice-of-an-online-civil-servant/#comment-453 James Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:19:24 +0000 http://www.sosaidthe.org/2008/02/05/the-real-voice-of-an-online-civil-servant/#comment-453 The anonymous author E.X. has also slowly but surely tipped his hand over the years as to his identity. The cumulative clues are all there in the pieces online - strictly speaking, the number of youngish, male low/mid-level government Anglo executives who've not lived in Ottawa their entire lives but yet have extensive central agency experience and a flair for creative writing is simply not that high. Particularly telling are instances where quite specific content lines up with very particular departmental initiatives, like in "Online Anarchy" or "Talking about my Generation" : http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/exfiles/stories2.html. A few Google searches (either in News/Canada or limited to domain gc.ca) make it fairly clear which federal departments have been looking at these issues around the time these articles went up. Using the other hints, the possibilities narrow rapidly. Ottawa just isn't that big a town. The anonymous author E.X. has also slowly but surely tipped his hand over the years as to his identity. The cumulative clues are all there in the pieces online - strictly speaking, the number of youngish, male low/mid-level government Anglo executives who’ve not lived in Ottawa their entire lives but yet have extensive central agency experience and a flair for creative writing is simply not that high.

Particularly telling are instances where quite specific content lines up with very particular departmental initiatives, like in “Online Anarchy” or “Talking about my Generation” : http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/exfiles/stories2.html. A few Google searches (either in News/Canada or limited to domain gc.ca) make it fairly clear which federal departments have been looking at these issues around the time these articles went up.

Using the other hints, the possibilities narrow rapidly. Ottawa just isn’t that big a town.

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