The first of many bits and pieces we're bound to share with you after our visit to the fantastic Personal Democracy Forum in New York last week, here Marc Smith gives you the run down on what he and his colleagues are working on around social network analysis and online relationships.

As I say more of this sort of thing as we catch up on our post-event reading, but for now take a look at the event summary from FutureGov's Carrie as well as what was said on Twitter during the 2 day event.

Oh, and then there's always the recordings of the keynotes brought to you by Civico of course... :)

Today we launched our new look website (and web address) over at wearefuturegov.com

Why not take a look - we'd love to hear what you think!

And while you're at it, grab yourself a spot at our next FutureGov Network event being run with the Improvement and Development Agency for local government:

Local by Social: Social Innovation for local government

Last week I was part of an O'Reilly Gov 2.0 online conference, Gov 2.0 Internation: Global Meeting Local Challenges.

I spoke on UK Innovations in Gov 2.0 (or 'You say Gov 2.0, we say digital engagement'), giving attendees (viewers?) from round the world a taste of the journey the UK has been through in embracing web 2.0 in government.

Clearly it's a quick canter through one man's take on the UK's journey and doesn't cover everything, but I'd love to hear views on the story I tell and anything I may have missed.

You can also find links to all the websites I mention in the presentation over here.

Taken from David Wilcox's playlist from yesterday's MyPublicServices event, Denise Stephens from Enabled by Design and Carrie Bishop from FutureGov talk about their projects and the role of Social Innovation Camp and other initiatives in shaping social innovation in public services.

A big congratulations to all involved in the event, especially Patient Opinion for making it happen.

If the coverage on the BBC technology site is anything to go by, you may want to remember this event as the day social innovation hit the big time.

Video interview at our "Crowdsourced Council" event this week from our friends at LocalGov.co.uk.

For the full report, check out their full article "Learning to listen through 'crowd computing."

For more information on the six products we presented on the day, check out their sites:

Uservoice
Yoosk
Audio/Videoboo
Quiet Riots
Consultwise
GovDelivery

Or drop us a line and we'll happily put you in touch.

And once again a big thanks to Capital Ambition for hosting the day.

"Last week, I gave a talk in Frankfurt at the impressive E20 Summit about leadership in devolved organisations. My starting point was the myth that leadership is somehow less important in new, networked organisations. Not so. If anything, it is more important than ever, but the focus and practice of leadership is changing; and if we are to engage leaders and involve them in the development of social business structures, then we need to be able to understand and address their challenges and issues using language that resonates with them."

"New forms of Leadership" - Lee Bryant, Headshift

To read the article in full, visit the Headshift blog.

I'm just back from the inaugural Personal Democracy Forum Europe so I thought I would share one the many great presentations from the event.

Scott's talk comes complete with fully integrated MP3 of the presentation (first time I've seen that one) and makes a really powerful case for social media as a facilitator, as a means for people to self-organise and to make change for themselves.

For all the audio and reporting back from the event, check out Civico's site where you can download to your heart's content.

My presentation is 34 mins 50 secs into the "We.gov and E-govt: Collaboration or Conflict?" session (currently 4th one down - direct link to it currently not working but you'll find it!).

Last thing - Personal Democracy Forum comes to the UK and other European countries next year so keep an eye out for that. Highly recommended.