Hi and welcome to the FutureGov Network!

We have developed this site as a place to start to capture those things that you all do to improve public services - share stuff you're working on, look at what other people are doing, and most importantly talk. 

The kinds of things you might want to do on the site:

• Share links to other sites, photos, videos and presentations
• Find out who else is on here by looking at people's profiles
• Make your own profile interesting
• Talk to each other by posting views, ideas, comments and whatever comes to mind

This site has been built in record time (one week, to be exact) and with one developer, which just goes to show what you can do quickly and inexpensively with web technology.  We decided to take a very bottom up approach to developing the Network, starting simply and getting ideas from you the users as to what we should focus on building next.

So let us know what you think of what we've got so far and tell us what else would be useful.  We'll try and make it happen, or if we can't then we'll tell you why not.

We aren't shouting about the site too widely just yet as we want to let the people in the know get to play with it and help us test it first of all, so please get involved and have a play.

First things first, tell us about yourself by setting up a profile. Stick up a picture of yourself, plus a description of who you are, what you do, and what you're working on.  Then choose some key words (tags) to describe yourself and add in stuff from other accounts you might have (Twitter, LinkedIn etc).  Once you've got a profile check out other people's and some of the stuff we've already posted up here.  When you're ready post some of your own stuff up there, ask questions, do a brain dump, whatever.

Thanks and enjoy!

Dominic Campbell

Director and Local Government geek
FutureGov Consultancy