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

We thought you might be interested to hear that NHS London's Go London social innovation competition is now live!
We're pretty excited about this one as it has so much potential to get people thinking about new ideas to get London physically active. As the site says:
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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.

There's a new blog post over at FutureGov:

The Killer Question

Let us know your thoughts - What one interview question would you ask someone going for a public sector leadership job to test whether they truly believe in social innovation and the social web?

If you're curious to know about my experiences going to NYC as FutureGov's competition winner and attending the impressive Personal Democracy Forum Conference 2009, come check my reporting back on the FutureGov Consultancy website. Another report on with more information from the conference will be written due to popular demand! So stay tune for that! Till then, take care folks! :-)

FutureGov competition winner Liz Azyan reporting back from PDF09