Many in the government often complain that their organization or agency blocks access to Facebook and Twitter feeds from the internet. Many users want to monitor their organization’s Facebook or Twitter feeds, so they can keep up-to-date on happenings and important programs for the public.

Unfortunately, most IT Security find it difficult to allow one page of Facebook or Twitter while denying overall access to those resources.

How does eGov Kit help solve this? eGov Kit has a SharePoint Webpart that allows this feed to be a server-side call.

Again, how does this help? IT security can easily install a SharePoint Webpart and enable access to that Facebook and Twitter from only that server IP. This allows all internal users to go to a SharePoint page and see the latest feeds. IT get the benefit of controlling what pages on Facebook and Twitter are accessed, from what machine/domain, and allow caching of the feed to reduce strain on pipes.

This is what the organization or agency employee would see:

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