• BBC to relaunch websites with focus on social media | Media | guardian.co.uk
  (tags: bbc social media guardian news reading)
• Calling Open Data Developers: We need your help
  Data.gov.uk comes to UK
  (tags: data data.gov.uk opengovernment)
• Social Work Blogs
  Definitive guide to social work blogs
  (tags: blogs socialwork government)
• Social Work News
  (tags: socialwork health news activism government uk charity healthcare newspaper)
• Recovering the Recovery Funds | Social Government
  (tags: recovery.gov websites gov20 government us politics economy)
• The Social Organisation: internal collaboration for councils - Eventbrite
  All welcome at tomorrow's event
  (tags: events futuregov futuregovnetwork huddle sunmicrosystems london gov20 uk localauthority)
• Socialwok
  social networking for google app engine
  (tags: google collaboration social apps community tools microblogging)
• Tim Brown urges designers to think big | Video on TED.com
  Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."
  (tags: ted design designthinking ideo)
• The Salmon Leaping: Disability hate crime
  (tags: disability crime)
• Is London the social media capital of the world? - Telegraph
  (tags: london uk social networking telegraph)
• Digital technology for public services and communities could make bottom up more effective than top down | Charles Arthur | Comment is free | The Guardian
  True. But only one angle. What about convening, organising and empowering citizens to act for themselves without government?
  (tags: community data government information gov20 uk guardian)
• Recovery.gov
  Done in Sharepoint believe it or not
  (tags: government stimulus branding money business recovery.gov sharepoint)
• Have a Go Heroes Project Presentation | Social innovation camp CEE
  (tags: sicamp sicamp_ee HAGH socialinnovation presentations events)

• neocivis - eGobierno y participación dinámica
  (tags: opengovernment spain gov20 government)
• Josh Nelson: New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals
  (tags: nonprofit charity social media socialchange)
• sugru | hack things better
  (tags: design products accessibility material enabledbydesign)
• How Do Innovators Think? - HBR Editors' Blog - Harvard Business Review
  (tags: innovation strategy entrepreneur organisations)
• Ford’s Social Media Strategy by @scottmonty.. | LitmanLive.co.uk
  (tags: ford cars social media strategy)
• McKinsey Perspectives on Business Technology: Making data available to citizens
  (tags: data analysis government open mckinsey gov20)
• Powerful People: Power failures | Demos | Publications
  (tags: demos report localauthority local power government uk)
• Improving data visualisation for the public sector
  Nice
  (tags: data visualization clg gov20 government)
• DataViz: improving data visualisation for the public sector - Corporate - Communities and Local Government
  Great to see. Shame it is presented so badly. Uninspired
  (tags: visualization data gov20 government)
• An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler | Social Media Strategery
  (cos he says awesome a lot - geddit?)
  (tags: govloop community government gov20 us)
• Changing IT Systems « Fighting Monsters
  When IT goes bad. Again. (via @georgejulian)
  (tags: technology localauthority socialservices government)
• GovLoop Graduation to Full-Time - GovLoop - Social Network for Government 2.0
  Biggup
  (tags: govloop gov20 community government us)
• Want to Improve Democracy? Try Design Thinking | Design of the Times | Fast Company
  (tags: democracy design designthinking management politics social us elections)
• Can Social Networking Change Our Political Consciousness? | Technomix | Fast Company
  (tags: diversity socialcohesion politics socialchange networking social media)

• GovDelivery Home | Government-To-Citizen Communication Solutions | Digital Subscription Management
  Joining forces with mega gov community Govloop is big news
  (tags: govloop govdelivery gov20 government management communications)
• Meeting with fellows : Citizen Power
  (tags: rsa citizenpower projects communications frsa civicsociety democracy)
• All Events - After Baby Peter: Messages from Serious Case Reviews for Leadership and Practice - The Hub Events
  via @enabledby
  (tags: sg20 safeguarding2.0 babyp events training)
• The White House - Press Office - Leader's statement on the Pittsburgh summit
  (tags: g20 us government barakobama whitehouse)
• OpenBritain - Home
  via @enabledby
  (tags: accessibility accesscity guides radar tourism tourismforall)
• How Tech for the Disabled Is Going Mainstream - BusinessWeek
  via @katiekatetweets
  (tags: accessibility enabledbydesign technology disability tools apple)
• Socialised government: the rise of micro public service uninstitutions | Personal Democracy Forum
  Me on the Personal Democracy Forum blog
  (tags: pdfeu europe sicamp talkaboutlocal nesta enabledbydesign schoolofeverything patientopinion)
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
  (tags: foundation gulbenkian portugal cultura art lisbon)
• The city of the future - Telegraph
  via @olimould
  (tags: cities sustainability future)
• The Life Cycle of the British Government on Datavisualization.ch
  "The Life Cycle of the British Government is part of a statistical investigation into the British Government since 1979. It focuses on the Conservative Government under Thatcher and Major, and the current New Labour Government."
  (tags: visualization government uk politics)
• CSN Annual Conference: Transforming Services and Changing Lives - LGiU
  (tags: childrensservices children transformation lgiu events)
• LGiU: government response to Baby P case - LGiU
  (tags: sg20 safeguarding2.0 lgiu babyp children)
• Safeguarding children and interagency working: How can the processes and tools for early intervention reduce the likelihood of child misery? - LGiU
  (tags: sg20 safeguarding2.0 childrensservices children lgiu)
• a little more focus on being human « Redjotter
  Notes from a journal. How to generate social change.
  (tags: socialchange events notes scotland leadership publicservices servicedesign)
• Gov20 USA | mindmap
  (tags: gov20 policy politics transparency gov20camp gov20s us social media)
• Bringing Transparency to Europe's Farm Subsidies | Talkin' bout a revolution
  (tags: transparency government gov20 europe eu finance farming opengovernment)
• Reaching the “Network Influentials” | techPresident
  (tags: politics networks influence)
• Everything you ever wanted to know about social media but… - Eventbrite
  "This short seminar is designed to fit in the lives of busy people and provide a rapid and clear explanation of what social media is and how its arrival and widespread use is creating powerful new disruptive forces your organisation can choose to be part of and benefit from."
  (tags: events cambridgeshire social media)
• Socialists retain power in Portugal with jobs promises | World news | The Guardian
  (tags: politics portugal elections socialist)
• The social media race is on for local authorities - Lilian Barton - TALK
  (tags: localauthority gov20 government social media uk)
• AudioBoo / Tweetminster meeting Peter Mandelson #@lab09
  "Why should be people vote Labour at the next election?"
  (tags: tweetminster audioboo podcast politics government newlabour uk)
• Redlands Liberal Democrats: Lib Dem Voice Blog of the Year Awards 2009
  Inc feedback on the LGC Social Media conference
  (tags: LGC events social media libdem localauthority gov20 government)
• Will Marr ask Cameron something similar to THAT question? | Paul Waugh | Blogs | Evening Standard
  (tags: conservatives newlabour politics bbc elections uk)
• 10 Hilarious Twitter Parody Videos
  (tags: twitter video fun microblogging mashable)
• SourceMap - Visualizing Supply Chains
  "Sourcemap is a collective tool for transparency and sustainability."
  (tags: transparency gov20 sustainability environment research maps government)
• cnewmark: DonorsChoose.org actual results
  (tags: education school donate volunteering us)
• The Office of Science and Technology Policy
  "The Office of Science and Technology Policy advises the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs."
  (tags: ostp technology science government policy federal gov20 us)
• Aneesh Chopra on his job, the DMCA, patent reform, and more | CNET Conversations - CNET News
  "Our first episode of CNET Conversations is live! CBSNews.com/CNET political correspondent Declan McCullagh and I interviewed Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra about everything from why he doesn't have a tricked-out CTO Web site to his thoughts on a fair use exemption to the DMCA and copyright reform. It's a wide-ranging interview that, we hope, covers the questions you wanted asked and then some."
  (tags: cto gov20 barakobama policy technology government us data)

• lastminute.com labs blog
  (tags: labs travel apps blog business innovation iphone)
• William Perrin: Britain's Got Hyperlocal Talent — Come and Meet Them
  (tags: hyperlocal local uk community huffingtonpost)
• Childrens Services Network - LGiU
  (tags: thinktank government policy childrensservices)
• IDEO | A Design and Innovation Consulting Firm
  (tags: design innovation technology inspiration agency webdesign usability marketing)
• Labs « Talk About Local
  (tags: labs talkaboutlocal hyperlocal 4IP aggregator news technology uk place)
• Newspaper Club
  via @robertbrook
  (tags: printing journalism blog media newspaper news)
• The School for Social Entrepreneurs: The trust society: squaring the public service delivery circle?
  "SSE Chair Charlotte Young discusses the differences between a trust-based and a contract-based society and, more pertinently in this context, the potential roles for the social entrepreneur as initiators, intermediaries and role models & people developers."
  (tags: socialenterprise socialinnovation entrepreneur trust sse)
• The White House - Blog Post - Rapping Doctor Wins H1N1 Video Contest
  AMAZING
  (tags: whitehouse us blog communications healthcare health)
• Over 50's -I don't feel 50 - seniors chat
  (tags: olderpeople sharehome community charity)
• Save Award
  Akin to the sites set up by Lib Dems and others recently in UK
  (tags: libdem politics barakobama us gov20 government efficiency)
• The Democratic Society
  (tags: politics community society debate)
• Virgin Money Giving | Charity fundraising, sponsorship and donations online | Quick, easy and not-for-profit
  (tags: charity fundraising)
• The must-have Zimmer – pram-maker Bugaboo pushes into new markets | Business | The Observer
  (tags: enabledbydesign business equipment mobility observer)

• Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  (tags: global science geek humour)
• Enabled by Design | Bugaboo: buggies and beyond - Blog
  All ideas and support welcome!
  (tags: enabledbydesign disability products assistivetechnology)

• Atlantic Community:Open Think Tank Article "How Web 2.0 is Changing Politics"
  via @you2gov
  (tags: gov20 social media politics internationaldevelopment)
• Directgov raises blue badge for football | Kable
  (tags: accessibility accesscity directgov maps disability)
• orangelog.eu: Social Innovation Camp – just do it!
  Go Heroes!
  (tags: HAGH sicamp sicee events)
• Ellen Miller: Congress' Tech-Oriented Growth Spurt
  (tags: sunlightfoundation huffingtonpost transparency gov20 data)
• Google Public Policy Blog: Eric Schmidt talks tech and the economy at the G-20 summit
  (tags: gov20 g20 events google policy)
• Piwik - Web analytics - Open source
  (tags: analytics opensource statistics web tools software visualization)

• Trust in politics: how we lost it and how to get it back | Lynne Featherstone MP
  Mostly interesting
  (tags: libdem politics gov20 transparency government uk)
• suburbia | Exhibitions | London Transport Museum
  (tags: suburbs london events)
• Urban Architects
  (tags: accesscity urban architecture cities technology mobile twitter)
• NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org | remixing the web for social change
  (tags: nonprofit community social technology activism collaboration web)

Last week I spent a morning at the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA) talking about its idea for a new Knowledge Hub. Essentially it’s a proposal to take the IDeA’s Communities of Practice site to the next level using a combination of content aggregation from across the web, data mash-ups, and ’storytelling’ with the aim of moving local government to a more knowledge-sharing culture. It’s an ambitious project and very wide in scope…

• myPublicServices - Eventbrite
  Book now! You won't regret it…
  (tags: mypublicservices events socialinnovation)
• Up all Night 2009
  (tags: design designweek)
• we share stuff - a social enterprise using social media
  "We Share Stuff is a Social Enterprise based in Birmingham, UK. We share our experience in the social web, to help people make the most of digital opportunities."
  (tags: digital howto social media birmingham)
• FeverBee: How To Handle Troublemakers
  via @davebriggs
  (tags: community management advice blog)
• RSA on the fringe : Matthew Taylor’s blog
  (tags: libdem politics politicalparties events)
• Louder is the new online home for campaigners
  "Louder is an ecampaigning portal that draws-together a range of social media tools for people who want to change the world."
  (tags: campaign volunteering)
• Motivational Design - WENOVSKI
  Design thinkers network
  (tags: design servicedesign networks ning)
• Frontline Club - Onnik Krikorian in Armenia: The spirit of Punk lives on in Social Innovation Camps
  Great report back on social innovation camp central and eastern europe
  (tags: sicee sicamp_ee blog socialinnovation sicamp)

• paulcanning: Postscript two: Lessons from the great 2009 Birmingham City Council website disaster
  Great work part two…
  (tags: birmingham gov20 websites uk localauthority)
• Integrated Bus Route Maps from WhatBus.com!
  Bus routes google mapped
  (tags: london bus transport travel maps mashup uk google)
• The Breaking Time: Gov 2.0 Finale: Lessons' shadows
  via @paulocanning
  (tags: gov20 gov20s events us government digitalengagement washington)
• Social Media Policies from 80+ Organizations
  via @darenbbc
  (tags: policy facebook media social twitter tools business rules howto)
• Feeding back citizen experience - Digigov
  via @caspararemi
  (tags: gov20 government feedback coi uk policy digitalengagement)