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G' Brown (Gordon Brown)

A bit of Sunday fun for you all - rapping G' Brown (that's Prime Minister Gordon Brown to us) played by Jon Culshaw.

Silly but hilarious.

Thanks to Ian Mansfield for sharing :)

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Social media and performance management in local government

One for all you local gov (and non-local gov) heads out there, here's a really comprehensive introduction to social media and local government from Ingrid Koehler at the IDeA

Take a look at what's going on in the field and how it is being applied to performance management in government, including the IDeA's on-going Knowledge Hub programme.

Make sure you check out the full blog post from Ingrid which will tell you more.

Fascinating insight from Simon on the use of online monitoring by the UK’s three main political parties.

Read more on Simon's blog.

Spotted by @darenbbc and shared on Twitter, I thought it might be worth sharing with the FutureGov Network as well as it might interest a fair few of you.

Head of Digital Engagement, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Good luck!

The star turn at the session we hosted at this week's Reboot Britain event on the future of local government and how we can work together to make it both relevant AND interesting.

Also worth checking out our short video gathering views on local government - some surprising comments, others less so unfortunately...

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Social media podcasts

A number of interesting and related podcasts by Adrian Moss at Parity from a couple of recent FutureGov events (Gov2Gov and Learning to Listen) with interviews with Emer Coleman (GLA), Chris Heuer (Social Media Club), Lovisa Williams (US State Dept) and - me...
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NESTA publishes Social by Social

Social by Social is a "practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact". More than just theory it gets into the detail of how and why, as well as hearing from some of the people making this stuff happen (no bias from me at all given I wrote a chapter... ;) )

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