"a unique one-day ‘collaboratory’ of the best thinkers, mavericks, strategists, scientists and pioneers"

"Good government requires good language, while bad language is a sign of poor government."

all about the thanks, people and love - apparently

via @benrmatthews

The agony of change in government and the importance of volunteering

"Go London is a new health legacy programme from NHS London to improve Londoners health through increasing participation in physical activity on the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London."

For people with learning disabilities

www.specialfriendsonline.com

Well worth a read

Let's get it on

via @iancuddy

Convergence of policy around convergence. Lazy copy and paste of US policy from UK or just 'the truth'? (via @iancuddy)

BIG news for @adriana872 @carriebish @alecmuffett and the team. Check it out.

"The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the name - that councils should use a variety of different methods to find out people’s opinions, engage with them, and improve performance in doing so. Secondly, for a useful demonstrations of tools showing how this might be done. And thirdly some insights into just how difficult it is to introduce these innovative new methods to councils, even when costs are low."

"The Crowd Sourced Council - presented by FutureGov and Capital Ambition - attracted visitors from across the capital and beyond to learn more about the new tools at their disposal."

Get applying. You have until 18th December.

Lib Dem social network

Blimey.

New book worth checking out

Mine and other sessions

Comprehensive

via @imran

via @dan_munz

"The SI Camp team ran an SI Camp Express evening with the Dignity in Care network as well as others to see what ideas people could come up with. The ideas all concern how to change something important within social care."

Audio of my session at 34 mins 40 secs in "We.gov and E-govt: Collaboration or Conflict?"

via @cityferret

"Journalists working for journalists"

New programme to reengage

What neither party is willing to admit or engage in properly is the idea, painfully apparent to anyone with direct personal experience of adult social care, that such care needs to be paid for, with the right balance of government and individual funding, and that such care needs to be personalised and of excellent quality.
Until they put aside the ridiculous posturing politics of he-said, she-said, with the associated poor quality of coverage, the issue of adult social care won't receive the proper attention it requires.

Seems to be a week for me to rant about things that are on my mind…

See where the Parties like to party

OMG

That's a lot of Americans

Get voting

Glasses houses?

via @henrim

Amazing photos from @Paul_Clarke. Well done to @Nero as well for pulling the project off.

Ha! (via @codepo8)

Watch it

Today's the day

AMAZING

"Britain's 5.5 million Twitter users are younger than average members of the public, slightly more likely to vote Labour, and distinctly more liberal"