LGA manifesto for local powers to improve local democracy

"Last Thursday the Social Media Club and FutureGov teamed up at Canada House to deliver a conference called Global networks, local action: transforming communities with social media. Below are a few observations on the conference and the wider public sector…"

Some good thinking on evaluating online engagement

Pretty bloody impressive - code on github, first to adopt creative commons licensing and hosting unconferences

"Enhance your blog posts and articles with interactive videos, images, Wikipedia, maps and more from 50+ sources without making readers leave the page."

The O'Reilly take on the big announcement

Pamphlet includes name checks for FutureGov work with Barnet Council as well as TweetyHall and future project with LGIU on Safeguarding 2.0

Comic genius

Making politics appeal to geeks

Get your name down. Quick. It'll be worth it. Promise.

Repeated at PDF09

help guide the future of Victoria’s parks

Innovation Management - Crowdsourcing - Suggestion Box - Customer Feedback

US gov using the mixedink tool to collaboratively construct policy

"There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference. Join the Corps, and let's get started!"

Special mention of TweetyHall

World changing

Part of the new New Labour manifesto?

"V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls."

Pollster for the modern age

Report back on our Gov2Gov session last week

Fiddy does Ning

Live blog of our event last Friday - thanks Joanne!

Me chatting about social media adoption in local government

Thoughts at the core of the work FutureGov is helping the RSA with at the moment

Commentable version (not the policy, but the implementation)

Chris is in town

Oh dear. Drama.

"More than 200 million people—about one-fifth of all Internet users—have Facebook accounts. They spend an average of 20 minutes on the site every day."

"Five months into his administration, Mr. Obama has signed two dozen bills, but he has almost never waited five days. On the recent credit card legislation, which included a controversial measure to allow guns in national parks, he waited just two."

London borough of Westminster Free Community Website

Improving quality of life in care homes

Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.

$2.45 million fund - wow

Australia does a Power of Information review 18 months on

Looks like a stunner. We've got a session on the future of local government in the afternoon so be sure to drop by!

(the last quote might just be me then…)