We’ve been out about on the streets of Barnet doing some vox pops, talking to local people about what they think of where they live - what they love, what they hate and what they would change about the place. Its all part of a bigger community engagement project we are running, trying to rethink (read: improve) the way we connect with the good people of Barnet (watch this space in late September for a fuller update on the project).

• Technology Review: How Obama Really Did It
  Fascinating in-depth look at the Obama campaign and his use of social tools and community building (on and offline) (via Colin McKay)
  (tags: social networking politics us media barakobama)
• Obama speech to Democratic Congress 2008
  World changing? (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: politics podcast US barakobama)
• Mobilizing Youth
  via Derek Baird
  (tags: youth participation)
• SlideBoom - Share Live PowerPoint Presentations Online
  via Derek Baird
  (tags: presentations sharing collaboration enterprise2.0)
• Harvard's Institute of Politics Releases New Poll of 18- to 24-year-olds' Political Views - MarketWatch
  Based on some solid trend data (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: politics polls us geny)
• Putting people first » User participation in online conversation
  Fascinating (va Derek Baird)
  (tags: participation internet conversation engagement research)

• Demos | Publications | The Future Face of Enterprise
  Study into the modern face of entrepreneurs - as well as intrapreneurs, those important entrepreneurs changing organisations from within.
  (tags: demos entrepreneur intraprenuer organisations research)
• Demos | Publications | Making the most of collaboration
  "Making the most of collaboration focuses on the design stage of public service provision - where collaborative design principles are taking hold."
  (tags: collaboration changemanagement publicservices design demos coproduction)
• Facebook to join Enterprise 2.0 !
  As a corporate collaboration space (hmm can't see many big organisations jumping at it somehow…)
  (tags: facebook enterprise2.0 organisations)
• Amazon.co.uk: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo Barbasi: Books
  Comes highly recommended by Carrie Bishop.
  (tags: books reading networks)

• Four Free Wikis Worth Trying Out - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  Nice simple little review of free wikis to trial
  (tags: wiki software collaboration)
• Ubiquity for Firefox on Vimeo
  "Ubiquity for Firefox, and experiment in connecting the Web with language." (via Christian Heilmann)
  (tags: firefox mashup userexperience browser)
• BBC NEWS | Health | Robo-skeleton lets paralysed walk
  Wowzers.
  (tags: enabledbydesign disability adaptiveequipment)
• Government 2.0: Being Individually Empowerful
  Useful US centric take on government and the social web including uptake of twitter
  (tags: twitter government us politics internet)
• What Is WOA? It's The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  On the back of a recommendation of WOA from Dennis Howlett.
  (tags: enterprise2.0 software work woa architecture)
• Tweetrush
  My habit
  (tags: twitter statistics visualization)
• We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
  Wow
  (tags: visualization social interactive information design)

• Socialreporter | Sketching the social innovation landscape
  Wow. Great work from David Wilcox pulling together the current social innovation landscape - including some work inside and outside of government. Great to see so much going on. More of this sort of thing.
  (tags: social innovation enabledbydesign government)
• Pratham Books: Open Innovation
  Drawing on McKinsey Quarterly
  (tags: openinnovation products enabledbydesign)
• FreshNetworks Blog » Co-creation series
  As it says. The whole lot together. Top reading on co-creation and service design.
  (tags: coproduction serviceimprovement blog marketing enabledbydesign)
• A Second Life for government? « Extended Reach
  Useful post on government forays into SecondLife. With Justin on this one - not a fan on the whole, although there are more and more examples of good thinking in this area, from recreating uni campuses for distance learning purposes to mocking up polyclinics for user acceptance testing pre-construction. One to watch.
  (tags: secondlife virtualworld government)
• India's Infosys to buy UK's Axon Group | Industries | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Reuters
  Big news in the world of IT consulting.
  (tags: axon IT consultancy)

• Barnet to experiment with reducing litter, recycling and lowering carbon emissions | Society | The Guardian
  At risk of over exposure?
  (tags: barnetcouncil nudge guardian sustainability green communications)
• How councils can get started with social media | DavePress
  Nice summary from Dave of some of the work going on out there and what more can be done.
  (tags: localauthority social media networking research)
• BBC - Radio 4 - Beyond Westminster
  Via Ivoivo
  (tags: politics government audio radio bbc)
• More on Behavioural Economics being Applied to Real World Policies | Stephen Kinsella, Ph.D
  And other Nudge mention (an idea that's found its moment it seems)
  (tags: nudge academia blog books barnetcouncil)
• The first nudge grant | Nudge blog
  An honourable mention of Barnet on the Nudge blog
  (tags: barnetcouncil nudge blog books)

• Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom
  Podcasts and transcripts - well worth a listen (via Chris Heilmann)
  (tags: podcast accessibility enabledbydesign)

• Procrastinating Politicians: Barnet gets a nudge
  And another…
  (tags: nudge sustainability behaviour barnetcouncil)
• Geary Behaviour Centre: Barnet to trial "nudge" theory
  Behaviour Centre - how very 1984!
  (tags: behaviourchange nudge barnetcouncil climatechange sustainability)
• C-Questor Carbon Markets and Climate Change News Blog: Barnet tests 'nudge' economics
  One of many on Barnet's efforts.
  (tags: barnetcouncil nudge climatechange green sustainability)
• 10 Downing Street Website on More4 News
  Spot from More4 News going through some of the criticisms of the Number 10 website (via Dave Briggs)
  (tags: news number10 government social media websites wordpress enabledbydesign)
• Mobile Youth - London Lifestyles of 18-35 year olds (Presentation) | mobileYouth
  "An overview of the cultural and fashion trends of 18-35 year olds in London" (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: youth trends presentation mobile london culture)

• Barnet tries out nudging
  Behaviour change a go go! We're going all Nudge down Barnet way
  (tags: barnetcouncil localauthority green sustainability)
• Federal adoption of open source: It's just a question of how much | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com
  "I know from personal experience that there are very few federal organizations that are not already using open-source applications or are evaluating them." Promising (via Rich White)
  (tags: government CRM erp opensource)
• Web 2.0 not a priority for CIOs (Content Matters)
  "72% of CIOs have no plans to use blogs in the next 5 years; 74% no plans to use wikis (a scientifically representative telephone survey of 1400 CIOs, not a self-select, voluntary web survey)" Depressing but can well believe it (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: statistics research IT social media enterprise2.0)
• Citizenscape
  "The CitizenScape eParticipation Programme Trial Project will integrate and test state-of-the-art Web 2.0 social networking ICT-based tools and solutions in a socially purposeful way in concrete legislative and decision-making processes - specifically looking at engaging Citizens to debate and engage with the implementation of EU environmental legislation at a local level." (via Dave Briggs)
  (tags: participation engagement democracy eu)
• FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » Co-creation 1: Mass customisation
  "Mass customisation is at one end of the co-creation spectrum - each product is customised for the particular customer who is purchasing it. Unlike what we often think of as co-creation, the individual customer does not influence the product for others. But they co-create their own product with the brand to deliver a customised version."
  (tags: publicservices improvement coproduction enabledbydesign)
• Enter WakeMe.At at Chaos’n'Coffee
  Location based social networking mixed with to do lists. The mind boggles at the possibilities.
  (tags: fireeagle maps tools projectmanagement)
• British Government Caught Pirating On Prime Minister’s Website | TorrentFreak
  Now that is what I call funny (thanks to Scott Gavin for this one)
  (tags: wordpress government copyright number10)
• Bristol City Council meetings on film and online
  Craply implemented but great idea - really gone the whole hog with the multimedia angle
  (tags: video localauthority events democracy)
• The best explanation of Twitter | Jack Dorsey, Vimeo | iDionome
  Explanation of the full breadth of twitter uses (interesting, goes on a little too long)
  (tags: twitter video events)

• The TALK Project
  "TALK isn't a project about technology, it's a project with the vision to build the most useful online resource that you can imagine, by using leading edge technology. We say that because by using TALK, you will be actively building it towards it's vision." Wow confluence is cutting edge technology - whodda thought it? Interesting project nevertheless.
  (tags: wiki confluence TALK government localauthority social media networking)
• TinEye
  "TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web." Wooo! Genuinely different and interesting (via Derek Baird)
  (tags: photos photography search tools images)
• GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress
  Everything you need to know in one place. Bespoking rss a really top feature (via Tom Watson)
  (tags: us congress research politics rss tools)
• Change your world or the world will change you: the future of collaborative government and Web 2.0
  Surprisingly good analysis of the future of the world of government in the era of collaboration (via Luis Suarez)
  (tags: government collaboration deloitte future social networks enterprise2.0)
• Policy WikiShop : Tree of Knowledge
  One of the better descriptions of how wikis could be used to enhance the policy making process.
  (tags: wiki australia policy government)
• Metropolitan Police Service - Crime mapping test site
  Can someone pls explain to me why this is 1. innovative and 2. useful (via Derek Mantle)
  (tags: crime maps london police)
• Online Information 2008
  Maybe worth a look…
  (tags: events information informationmanagement internet enterprise2.0)
• What would you like to change?
  PwC's foray into social media, crowdsourcing ideas on the future of public services.
  (tags: pwc publicservices crowdsourcing social media)