Great advice to local government from @demsoc as follow up to their talk at the LGIU Social Media Conference last week.

Interview with Paul at LocalGovCamp Lincoln by Liz Azyan of LGEO Research.

For more (and some background) here's a post by me about the new group.

Lee Bryant gives a really nice why to/how to introduction to participation and open data at the Social Strategy Talk event in Amsterdam

You can read his commentary in full over on the Headshift blog.

Here's a video of my recent interview Anna Maybank, Director of Social Innovation Camp, for the upcoming for PDF Europe event.

Anna explains the what, why, how and where next for Social Innovation Camp.

You can also read my blog post in full over on the FutureGov blog.

"The Bigger Picture is a creative series of activities and events beginning in autumn 2009 and curated by the new economics foundation in response to current crises...

We’ll be hosting discussions, actions and exhibitions, ending with a major Festival of Interdependence in London on October 24th 2009. The festival will bring together artists, thinkers, activists and you for a day of learning, making, celebrating and debating, about how we can start the Great Transition to a new economy.Best of all, the festival will be completely free."

I wasn't able to make the Socitm event, but great to see so much content being shared on slideshare and their main site after the conference by the organisers, including this keynote speech from Geoff Mulgan of the Young Foundation.

I can't say I agree with it all (to say there is an effective investment model for social innovation for government and social enterprise is simply wrong) but plenty of food for thought.

Enjoy!

Earlier this month, we ran a FutureGov Network event in partnership with Huddle over at Sun Microsystems (a big thanks to both for supporting that!).

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