Bookmarks for December 30th through January 9th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

• Engagement advice – Mick reports on a good list of engagement tips via @govloop
• Our Society – "Our Society aims to connect people who are genuinely concerned to move power into communities."
• Can you help? – Personal and Self Directed Learning tool – Carl needs your help to develop this neat learning tool.
• Digital Inclusion – Time for a rethink? – Great post from Paul on digital inclusion and whether the debate is somewhat behind the times.
• Creating democratic, scalable innovation – Great post from @demsoc on the skunkworks debate.
• Local gov blogging – ideas for you – Some great blogging ideas from @ingridk
• Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud: How to Maximize Benefits and Avoid Pitfalls – Useful whitepaper on cloud stuff.
• Cumbria County Council public consultation – Have your say on council priorities and budget options – Interesting use of Ning for public consultation by Cumbria County Council.
• Nick Davies: The Julian Assange Investigation — Let’s Clear the Air of Misinformation – Make no doubt about it – the Wikileaks / Assange situation is a hell of a mess.
• The rise of the parish council – Nice little article in the Guardian about very (hyper?) local democracy.

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.