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Great post from David Wilcox on the issues of procuring innovative stuff in government. Maybe something new is needed. - Dave Briggs

"The government has just launched it’s Child Internet Strategy Strategy – created by the UK Council on Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) – and it’s not good." - Dave Briggs

The Government will encourage local government to release local public data and make it free for reuse, and establish an open-platform local data exchange. - Dave Briggs

Interesting online customer service application:"Turn your customers into evangelists by providing outstanding support" - Dave Briggs

"Over the past few years, social marketing has grown in prominence as a branch of marketing that’s focussed on delivering public good from marketing rather than the commercial benefits that sit behind much conventional marketing theory." - Dave Briggs

"Here is the draft Government 2.0 Taskforce report Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0. The Taskforce is seeking your comments and input before finalising the report to go to Government." - Dave Briggs

Am liking this! "A tweetwall lets you display only the tweets you’re interested in from everywhere on Twitter, use it to track hashtags, usernames, and keywords. The possibilities are up to you." - Dave Briggs

Very useful - as always! - from Tim. - Dave Briggs

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Consumer Focus Lab's commentariat site asking for views on DirectGov - Dave Briggs

Charles Arthur on charging for online content: "The real solution is "freemium": you offer a lot to lots of people for free (with ads), but you entice those at the high end with paid-for stuff. Never rule out freemium. It's incredibly powerful." - Dave Briggs

Remarkably thorough and well thought out post from Lee Bryant - Dave Briggs

"To continue the conversation, and begin to recommend some firm ideas for how to proceed in the web analytics space at all levels of Australian government, a Web Analytics For Australian Government group was established at Google at the end of last week, and is already beginning to see some discussion of the topic." - Dave Briggs

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Hugh Flouch outlines the hyperlocal ecosystem - Dave Briggs

"Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t like jazz." - Dave Briggs

"Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screencast in seconds." - Dave Briggs

"Lithium Technologies is breaking ground with the introduction of a new, standard measurement for customer communities: the Community Health Index." - Dave Briggs

"See what reputable people are saying about topics that interest you — in real-time" - Dave Briggs

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Great post from Michele about the challenges of designing and developing within large organisations - and the opportunities presented by agile methods. - Dave Briggs

Steph explains what he sees as the four elements of digital engagement activity: listen, explain, engage, convene. - Dave Briggs

"Loop11 is an online usability and user experience testing tool, allowing individuals and companies to conduct online, unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool… helping you to understand user behaviour and improve your website's usability." - Dave Briggs

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Good stuff from Sharon on knowledge management and transfer and how it sucks, mostly - but doesn't need to. - Dave Briggs

"Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "a Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System", or, as a less precise person might put it, a revolutionary new way for people to use the internet without detection. By downloading Clarke's software, which he intended to distribute for free, anyone could chat online, or read or set up a website, or share files, with almost complete anonymity." - Dave Briggs

"Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "a Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System", or, as a less precise person might put it, a revolutionary new way for people to use the internet without... more... - Dave Briggs

"Government plans to roll out e-petitions across the UK could offer people a real say in the democratic process, a conference has heard." - Dave Briggs

"One of the key hurdles for the public sector and legislators in heralding in the changes that will make the promise of Government 2.0 successful will be culture change." - Dave Briggs

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"However what I will ask is this - should the Australian government look beyond advertising and communications agencies for good communications ideas? Should we go directly to the communities impacted by our programs, invite them to provide ideas for communications campaigns and reward them appropriately?" - Dave Briggs