Great presentation about friends of FutureGov, @govloop.

Govloop's Steve Ressler started for a variety of reasons: to bring together the government community to encourage open, honest conversations, to help people find each other and solve each others problems and to share new ideas.

With over 20,000 members and recently announcing a partnership with GovDelivery, you can only see it going from strength to strength.

FutureGov recommended :)

A bit of Sunday fun for you all - rapping G' Brown (that's Prime Minister Gordon Brown to us) played by Jon Culshaw.

Silly but hilarious.

Thanks to Ian Mansfield for sharing :)

One for all you local gov (and non-local gov) heads out there, here's a really comprehensive introduction to social media and local government from Ingrid Koehler at the IDeA

Take a look at what's going on in the field and how it is being applied to performance management in government, including the IDeA's on-going Knowledge Hub programme.

Make sure you check out the full blog post from Ingrid which will tell you more.

Our friends over at the Sunlight Foundation thought there was something odd about a bill this Halloween. Armed with a camera for a few nights, this is what they saw. Spooky...

(oh and while we're on the subject, check out Sunlight Labs' new Augmented Reality Mashup - big fan, big potential).

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.

Fascinating insight from Simon on the use of online monitoring by the UK’s three main political parties.

Read more on Simon's blog.

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.