Conference: a new media in Government and Politics (Spanish)

Interview with Lucas Lanza, President of the "Sociedad de la Información para las Americas" (http://www.eamericas.org). Politics 2.0 in Argentina. Campaign, elections and the future.  Can the politics use the new media for the government? 

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... :)

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A rather interesting study of how Parliamentary staff around the world compare in terms of how they communicate on and off line. France has some way to go it seems...

("apologies" for the French but hopefully the numbers and graphs will tell the story whether you're a French speaker or not!)

Yet another in a long series of breathtakingly good social commentaries from Cassetteboy, this time with DJ Rubbish, reviewing the events of 2009 rap stylee.

For more treats check out Cassetteboy's heavy hitting take on the state of UK political parties (could become a viral classic in the run up to the election?) and a spoof Christmas message from the Liberal Democrats (not sure if it's Cassetteboy this one).

Big thanks to @flosskebabs for passing them all my way.

I first met Heather at this year's Personal Democracy Forum conference and have been meaning to share some of her stuff here ever since. So here you are. She also does some great political skits, so watch out for those (here's one).

And go follow her on Twitter. And Vimeo. And all the other usual suspects. And invite her to a conference near you...