Just a quick one to share the slides we presented to NESTA's Reboot Britain event on Monday outlining some of the work we've been doing looking at rethinking child protection and the role web technologies might play in enhancing prevention.

To read more or watch a short video of our recent event, have a read of our blog post.

All thoughts appreciated.

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.

Over at TweetyHall we are asking if and how we should create hashtags for councils on Twitter.We’re looking for opinions on whether this is something worth doing. We would like to work with you (as residents, politicians and councils) to allocate each local council area a three letter tag. In this way we hope to be able to help keep thin.... Read More

Just to quickly point you to this new report from the RSA and direct you to their website to read more.

Worth a look (as is most of their research) ...

Last week at Gov20LA (an gov20 unconference held out on the West Coast of the US for the first time, expertly pulled together by @You2Gov @Lovisatalk) I met a long time Twitter hero of mine, Adriel Hampton.
Not only is Adriel one of the nicest people you .... Read More