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This is a montage of short clips filmed (using my Flip video camera) at Barcamp Canberra 2010, which explores some of the themes of Government 2.0 and Social Innovation from the day.

BTW My slides from Barcamp ('Remixing Gov 2.0' and 'Hello. My Name is, Social Business Design.') and the session I ran on Gov 2.0 on Friday (which is really the extended version of my Barcamp presentation) are also all available online.

It all started on July 6th and since then we’ve had 2,400 people on the plinth - remember the laughs, the tears and the just plain nakedly outrageous. One & Other, here are your best bits…

This video of highlights from One and Other in the UK made my morning. Go on, take a break for 4 minutes and watch it. Hopefully you'll see, this wasn't simply a remake of Big Brother style reality TV. Its something quite different.

BTW There are a few moments that probably aren't safe for work, if you work for philistines that is ;-)

The online production was also a Headshift project.

Just in case you thought augmented reality (AR) was all about marketing gimmicks involving mobile phones and barcodes, this example from some Finnish researchers shows how some people are thinking about other ways of applying augmented and virtual reality to business. Actually many of these ideas aren't new but perhaps what is more interesting is that the technological barriers are falling and in easy (or very close) reach of consumers. I suspect that the only real barrier is probably the headsets! However, these experiments all pave the way for new, innovative methods for collaborating and manipulating data to come.

Hat tip to Games Alfresco.

You can find my slides and other notes from NSW Public Sphere elsewhere on my blog.

Social Innovation Camp is taking place in Australia next March, with initial meetup events taking place around the country. But what exactly is Social Innovation Camp all about? Watch this video from SI Camp Scotland:

Social Innovation Camp (Sicamp)is an experiment in creating social innovations for the digital age. The third Sicamp took place at Saltire Centre in Glasgow on Friday 19th June to 21st June 2009 and proved a huge success. Over 60 people joined in to turn six back-of-the-envelope ideas for web tools to change the world into real social start-ups complete with working software - all in under 48 hours. This video is a quick summary of what took place over the 48 hour period from beginning to end.

I recently became the proud owner of a Flip Mino and while catching up with Diana Mounter, who is Design and Development Coordinator for the Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW (LGSA), I managed to convince her to be my first "Flip" victim interview. I asked her to tell me about the upcoming Local Government Web Network Conference.