• Brian Paddick to hold first UK political interview on Twitter
  Good effort! Following the US Presidential candidates.
  (tags: twitter interview events politics london)
• Woopra
  “Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analytics tool that works perfectly on any website” it says.
  (tags: analytics data statistics websites visualization tools)
• Seedcamp
  Seedcamp enables entrepreneurs from across Europe compete for seed capital and top quality mentoring in Septemer 2008.
  (tags: barcamp finance socialenterprise business entrepreneur startups innovation events)

• Interview: Health Secretary Alan Johnson - Telegraph
  Announcing the NHS Choices initiative, including individual NHS budgets for people with long-term conditions.
  (tags: healthcare NHS choice)
• Musings on social media, enterprise, wine-making and terroir : Media Influencer
  Some metaphors for you
  (tags: social media enterprise2.0)
• Chomp Chomp. » Hidden Google Secrets
  How to make best use of Google
  (tags: google howto)
• The 101 most useful websites - Telegraph
  Exactly what it says on the tin.
  (tags: internet websites google howto)
• London Borough of Hounslow - Webcasting system
  Impressive stuff from the west London council.
  (tags: localauthority webcast)
• Goplan - Online project management and collaboration tool
  Promising looking uncomplicated project management tool
  (tags: apps projectmanagement software enterprise2.0 collaboration opensource tools)

• Microsoft Citizen Service Platform
  Good to see Microsoft making the effort, but the more I read the more it scares me (especially as I fear people will buy it!)
  (tags: microsoft customers engagement communications)

• Life is tweet for connected professionals - Technology, Business - Independent.ie
  Useful little analysis of Twitter and the way ahead [via Paul Walsh]
  (tags: twitter news newspaper via:paul walsh)

• Quotably
  Tool to help you follow Twitter conversations [via: @monkchips via @jowyang]
  (tags: twitter mashup tools social networking media via:monkchips via:jowyang)
• Freebase
  “An open database of the world’s information” according to the publicity. Another what is bound to become a long line in semantic web tools.
  (tags: semanticweb tools search social media tagging information internet bookmarking collaboration)

• Dissident: What has Web 2.0 ever done for us?
  Interesting (and pretty accurate) reflection of the impact and adoption of web 2.0 in local government
  (tags: localauthority government social media)
• Health Innovation Accelerator - Call for Ideas | Launchpad
  Launchpad at the Young Foundation launches its Health Innovation Accelerator aimed at supporting social innovation in the health sector by calling for ideas from people with long-term conditions, employees, employers and social entrepreneurs alike.
  (tags: socialenterprise healthcare)

The applications have been assessed, the marks have been counted and now the results are in. With the unenviable task of whittling down over 70 applications, the advisory board to the camp has decided on its final 6.

Hosted by the socially active Young Foundation, supported by public sector heavy weights NESTA and the Cabinet Office’s Office of the Third Sector and hard wired by the Yahoo! Developer Network, things are well set for48 hours of mass collaboration, creativity - and fun!

• Interview: Clay Shirky | Technology | The Guardian
  Shirky and Leadbeater on the future role of the web in human advancement.
  (tags: internet futures technology collaboration)

• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData
  Via Chris Dalby at Yellow Park
  (tags: twitter visualization community social media information statistics maps design networks via:yellowpark)
• Participatory Budgeting: A Draft National Strategy - Giving more people a say in local spending
  Communities and Local Government’s new draft strategy on how to get people better involved in decision making around public service budgets at a local level.
  (tags: finance government participation consultation)

• How Blogs Improve Customer Service AND Product Development | chrisbrogan.com
  Example of a company using early customer engagement to give their customers what they want.
  (tags: wiki customers customerservice engagement beta)
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Telecommuting - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  A CIO’s take on why he’s a telecommuting convert.
  (tags: flexibleworking)
• The City of the Future
  Business week article on the authors of “the Endless City” give their view on the future of cities.
  (tags: architecture books cities sustainability future)
• Government innovation plan omits IT skills - 14 Mar 2008 - Computing
  IT suffers at the hands of science and engineering.
  (tags: IT skills technology future)
• Canuckflack / Secret Guide to Social Media in Large Organizations
  Handy little guide to social media and how best to encourage adoption in organisations.
  (tags: enterprise2.0 government howto community social media)
• edublogs: Social media and ambient intimacy for software engineers
  Helping software better understand their audience.
  (tags: development design innovation technology social media)
• Demos | Demos 2050 | Blog | Time for some big ideas
  According to Time Magazine, more than money and more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on. Here Demos discuss Time’s ten big ideas…
  (tags: future business life)
• We Tell Stories - ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming
  Book one in this amazing series of books transcending the reader/geek divide
  (tags: books maps)
• Social Innovation Camp - Backnetwork