• Greenmonk: the blog : Green Shoots at Microsoft: Public Sector Engagement: EU, UK
  Mentions of public sector getting green - oh and FutureGov
  (tags: green localauthority microsoft sustainability)
• Digital Dialogues
  Digital Dialogues-an independent review of central government use of ICT to enable and enhance public engagement commissioned from the Hansard Society by the Ministry of Justice.
  (tags: access engagement consultation communications participation digital democracy web24gov)
• Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
  Using paper and video to help people understand web technology and the like (via David Wilcox)
  (tags: howto video education guides skills rss bookmarking blog communication social tools)

• Local Wellbeing Conference
  Interesting concept, not sure if it has the legs to make a difference. Will watch with interest.
  (tags: government policy events wellbeing localauthority)
• Isle of Wight council
  Very interesting use of rss to create the official council website (even if it is u-g-l-y)
  (tags: isleofwight rss localauthority aggregator government social media)
• Online Community Research Network
  Brings together building online communities (via Steve Dale)
  (tags: community virtual groups)
• Jennifer Government: NationStates
  “NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals.” Sounds fun! (via @digitalmaverick)
  (tags: fun government nations policy simulation virtualworld games)
• The Nag
  “Do one thing a month to make the world a better place”. Oh alright then, you twisted my arm!
  (tags: activism community green environment culture sustainability UK)
• Innovation Agent
  Mitchell Sava’s top notch musings on innovation and collaboration. Well worth keeping tabs on.
  (tags: blog innovation creativity government collaboration)
• GovXchange from SOCITM
  Not sure of the target audience, but looks like it has been designed by a techie for a techie. Blog broken too. Not even sure I want to register to find out more (via Steve Dale)
  (tags: community government IT SOCITM)

• Tag Galaxy
  Fun way to mess around with visualisations of flickr photos based on tags (via Alberto Nardelli)
  (tags: aggregator flickr visualization tagging photos)

• LeWeb’08
  Registration is now open (cheap tickets all gone so on to the £1000 ones. Hmmm, is it really worth £1000..?)
  (tags: events leweb)
• Tag Galaxy
  Cool app that provides a great way to introduce the concept of social media/folksonomies/tags to newbies (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: aggregator social networks tagging rss mashup tools flickr)
• Cabinet Office Strategy Survival Guide .pdf
  Best of its kind that I’ve seen.
  (tags: strategy government howto)
• Strategy Survival Guide
  More from the Strategy Unit within the Cabinet Office.
  (tags: strategy government policy UK howto)
• Hack, Mash, & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency
  Article from the Columbia Science & Technology Law Review. “Government should be encouraged to release public information online in a structured, open, and searchable manner. To the extent that government does not modernize, however, we should hope that p
  (tags: law government information transparency openrights politics crowdsourcing)
• Innocentive Open Innovation
  Seminal open innovation site.
  (tags: enabledby entrepreneur innovation opensource sharing design networks projects creativity crowdsourcing community business collaboration)
• yet2.com
  “Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Patent Exchange, IP Licensing Marketplace” it says
  (tags: technology VC collaboration innovation projects patents knowledge entrepreneur information crowdsourcing)
• Social Lab
  “a space where people can develop concepts to address social change”. Really love the idea and style of this initiative. If only more people knew about it!!
  (tags: thinkpublic social change socialenterprise publicservices)

As tipping points go, last week seemed like a pretty significant one in the world of UK government and social media. It was the week when Prime Minister Gordon Brown went on the attack looking to rebuff claims by opposition leader David Cameron once and for all that he was nothing more than an “analogue politician in a digital age”.

• BarCamp wiki / BarCampNorthEast
  Loving their work. Good news for the northeast (although why does everything up there have to happen in Newcastle especially when Middlesbrough - Teesside Uni - is doing some of the best digital work going?)
  (tags: digital barcamp events newcastle northeast)
• Twittermania: 140 More Twitter Tools!
  Tweet-tastic post listing a bunch of twitter tools (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: twitter tools apps social media mashup)
• Thinking Digital Conference
  Annual event about technology, ideas and the future
  (tags: new newcastle UK events technology futures)
• spEak You’re bRanes
  “A collection of ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar” (via Kate Bevan)
  (tags: humour blog politics participation ignorance)
• In the Web 2.0 world the only way to control content is to deliver it | web24gov
  A government funded widget factory to help communities make best use of government data?
  (tags: government data widget access)
• National Association of Local Councils (NALC)
  Amazing the things you can miss despite working in local government for 6 years. Never heard of them but guess that comes from working in London (no town/parish councils)
  (tags: localauthority government groups association)
• Big Blue Embraces Social Media
  Not exactly new news but interesting nevertheless
  (tags: IBM enterprise2.0 social networking media)
• RedMonk offers job and accepted on Twitter « Technobabble 2.0
  Big news on a green tip at Redmonk towers
  (tags: redmonk greenmonk green IT)
• Kable - Government joins Google in climate project - 19 May 2008
  A force for good?
  (tags: green government google)
• Host Written | Podnosh Blog
  Me and others chatting on Twitter during Innovation Edge
  (tags: twitter innovationedge)
• dynamo london
  “Dynamo london is a showcase for the best of interactive and digital design in the capital.” Funded by the LDA
  (tags: GLA LDA localauthority design london enabledby)
• Nexus
  Amazingly powerful friend graphing tool
  (tags: facebook mashup friends visualization socialgraph networking networks tools)
• Wanobe
  “The lifestyle place for my generation” - well over 50s at least.
  (tags: networking social boomers)
• 50connect
  Networking for the over 50s.
  (tags: boomers silversurfer olderpeople networking social enabledby)

• BetaNews | A look inside Google’s new do-it-yourself intranet creator
  Blimey, is there no end to their viral stranglehold of home and business computing? (via Carrie Bishop)
  (tags: google intranet software)
• Innovation in governance and public services.pdf
  According to Jean Hartley at Warwick.
  (tags: governance innovation government localauthority)
• Innovation in public services.pdf
  According to Geoff Mulgan at the Young Foundation
  (tags: innovation publicservices government localauthority socialenterprise)
• Spreading Innovation.pdf
  Challenges faced and best methods according to Peter Wilkinson of the Audit Commission
  (tags: innovation sharing government publicservices localauthority)
• shifthappens presentation | wiki
  “Started out as a PowerPoint presentation for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, United States then “went viral” in February 2007. Today the old and new versions of the online presentation have been seen by a
  (tags: education video presentations internet change globalisation futures trends)
• Zazzle
  Custom t-shirts and more, create or shop for unique designs shipped in 24 hours
  (tags: t-shirts design printing merchandise innovation badges branding shopping)
• Moviestorm
  Make a movie quickly and easily. Useful for things like scenario planning?
  (tags: film games digital software video tools animation creativity)
• Machinima.com
  Upload your videos from game play
  (tags: digital education games streaming film art animation video)
• Smart Mobs: the next social revolution
  Seminal book all about the use of pervasive technology in changing society and driving collective action.
  (tags: books blog collaboration disruptive politics social activism networking futures)
• William’s oxen may not be invited to Russell Square
  Stinging attack on Intellect’s public sector work by William Heath
  (tags: government policy intellect publicservices)
• UK Government’s Draft LegislativeProgramme 2008/09 | Involve, the Participation Organisation
  Programme for next year including plenty on empowerment and engagement, the words of the moment.
  (tags: empowerment engagement Involve involvement legislation UK)
• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Twitter Demographics …
  The younger you are the more intensively you use it.
  (tags: twitter statistics research demographics)
• Web Directions South: Government
  A full day two track conference focusing on the concepts, technologies and techniques for meeting the challenges of eGovernment in Canberra, Australia (via Trib)
  (tags: presentations events government technology social media)
• acidlabs » What a difference a week makes
  Trib’s feedback on the Interesting South and Web Directions South Government events.
  (tags: government australia technology web24gov innovation)
• PollDaddy.com
  Possibly the best free online surveys and polls tool.
  (tags: tools surveys polls websites analytics statistics community)

• the Institute for Social Media — i4SM
  The Institute for Social Media is a joint initiative between the ONE-Manchester partnership (led by the Manchester Digital Development Agency – MDDA), Manchester Business School and other partners, and is linked to the proposed Matrix Digital Cooperativ
  (tags: projects social media manchester university research)

• NESTA Connect: The view from the Innovation Edge
  Really interesting views coming out about how to run major events like this and make best use of social media as a tool to support their success (oh and on the future of the country etc too!)
  (tags: NESTA networking social media events innovationedge)
• No 10: Interactive
  A social media special from the boss.
  (tags: social media networking government communications)
• localism : Tags : Daniel Hannan : Politics : Telegraph Blogs
  Collection of pieces by the Telegraph on localism and the state in the UK.
  (tags: government local localauthority centralisation governance)

• thinkpublic

  These guys do great work with public service providers to rethink they way they work and improve the customer experience.

  (tags: customers customerservice government localauthority publicservices design UK blog)

• Equality and diversity monitoring - should we be concerned? | Steve Dale online

  An age old debate in government - and an odd one given it has been overtaken by all the info people share on public (not public sector) social network sites. Not a view I agree with but certainly a debate worth having to remind people why collecting this matters.

  (tags: diversity information government localauthority)

• The Innovation Edge event content

  Videos etc from the event itself.

  (tags: events NESTA innovationedge)