Vizie

[Music plays and text appears: Connecting with Customers on Social Media]

[Image changes to show Amanda Dennett, Senior Media Adviser, Department of Human Services]

Amanda Dennett: Vizie is a social media monitoring tool that helps our team track when people are talking about the Department and its key words in social media.

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It prioritises information that we need to see so that we can respond quickly to alert business areas that need to know what’s happening in their area, to alert our executive and Minister’s office about issues as they come up. That’s something that five years ago a lot of people in our Department wouldn’t have thought was possible.

[Image changes to show Tamati Shepherd, General Manager, Digital Transformation Division, Department of Human Services]

Tamati Shepherd: Social media is a really key part of our transformation journey and the social media project under the alliance was a really important aspect.

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Amanda Dennett: We’re a big Department that delivers services on behalf of the Government to almost all Australians so we want to make sure that people can trust what we do, the information that we give and the services that we deliver, but also we want to know when individual customers are having a problem.

[Image changes to show Dr Cecile Paris, Research Leader, CSIRO]

Dr Cecile Paris: We spend a lot of time observing the address to understand what they were doing on social media and how they were doing it, to get an understanding of how we could develop a tool to help them in their task and to be integrated in their workflow.

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Amanda Dennett: In the early days of our social media monitoring it was a bit of an onerous task to trawl through Google alerts, Twitter feeds and Twitter searches, trying to find where people are talking about Centrelink and Medicare, and now using Vizie we’re able to save a lot of time because those processes are automated.

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[Image changes back to Dr Cecile Paris]

Dr Cecile Paris: Not just an idea of whether it’s positive or negative and who are the main people talking but really trying to understand more deeply what are people talking about and in which way they are talking about it.

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For example to be able to automatically identify what is a question, what is an opinion, what is an opinion which may or may not be true, so those are quite complex questions.

[Image has changed back to Amanda Dennett]

Amanda Dennett: Our work with CSIRO has been really exciting. It’s been really collaborative.

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My team thinks about it in a communication and customer service way, they’re coming at it from a research and data-mining and analysis way, but we’re able to meet in the middle and develop a tool that helps our team each day to do our jobs.

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It’s become one of the main channels that we use to communicate with customers.

[Image has changed back to Tamati Shepherd]

Tamati Shepherd: One of the key things that we’ve learnt is there actually is a science to service delivery.

[Image has changed back to Amanda Dennett]

Amanda Dennett: Vizie tool is now used by other Departments and agencies across Government, which I think gives us all a pretty good sense of pride.

[Text appears above CSIRO and the Australian Government Department of Human Services logos: The Human Services Delivery Research Alliance used innovative technologies, research and approaches to support an evidence-based, sustainable national service delivery program]