This study aims to assess IT managers’ perspective of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats(SWOT) of using
public social networking sites(SNS) for work groups collaboration in government organizations. SWOT is one of the tools
that assists organizations on the strategic planning of organizational projects. It is also a very useful tool to strategically
analyze and understand an organization’s current position in any IT deployment (Sabbaghi and Vaidyanathan, 2004). It
examines the benefits by looking at the strengths and opportunities and the costs by looking at the weaknesses and threats of
deploying and using a SNS. From the perspective of strategic management, a good fit maximizes a firm's strengths and
minimizes its weaknesses, seizes opportunities and eliminates threats