Thanks for a really informative session - I really had no idea that these types of media would be available to us. I have passed the information over to the head of our Communications and Stakeholder Engagement area for consideration. If there is a fit with our work I am sure this is something that we will be looking at taking further and could be in touch with you separately.

it was good to se someone in a position to change things who is genuinly forward looking and able to open our eyes to the fact that our accepted practices are not new and efficient and that we need to change. more of this please

I head a Secretariat for an advisory NDPB and am looking at ways of making this body more open and effective, especially as we have industrialists and academics working around the UK. Your talk provided some really good ideas I can throw into the discussion pot. Many thanks.

Very helpfull session, definately the way forward. Think the jobcentreplus security specialist may not be so keen but hopefully he will soon be onboard

I agree - this was the most useful session I attended. I really do think that this is the way to humanise the Civil Service to the wider world - it works for various members of the Armed Forces. I think my point about the Civil Serf blog was misunderstood - there do need to be rules, but the silver lining of that particular cloud was that the media and the blogosphere talked about a civil servant as something other than a faceless bureaucrat - a revolution in my eyes. I think that we need this in the CS more than ever.

Sam - sorry if i misunderstood your point - a better example is/are the FCO Bloggers who give a superb insight into the otherwise closed diplomatic world you can reach them via www.fco.gov.uk

Excellent session - one of the best of the day - and the most thought provoking. In our area, we need to circulate draft policy within the MOD community to stakeholders that are on many diverse networks whose only connectivity is via email. This leads to multiple copies of the same draft, that then need to be amalgamated for the audit trail. The PBWiki style solution would bring so many benefit, not least only one draft copy with all being able to see all comments - a revolution in policy creation. We will be investigating this further as, for sure, this is the way ahead. Many thanks for your enthusiasm in bringing this to light. We also would embrace your idea of an GSI hosted “Facebook” style site to bring together areas of differing expertise - finding any, let alone the best, “subject matter expert” for just our relatively small area of responsibility wastes many a day. Again, many thanks - this session made the whole day worthwhile by itself!

It was a very stimulating session, particularly as I work in DFID which has people working all over the world. My only concern is about "Pace", and whether CS departments will embrace the possibilities of this new technology with sufficient pace before it becomes obsolete itself.

I found the session very interesting and thought provoking. Like one of the earlier comments I did not think this kind of technology would be available to us.

I will now need to pay more attention to my children who are fully conversant with the likes of Facebook and start learning form them!

I think one key benefit that could flow from utilising these tools is the ability to share information across departments and indeed across the whole of government. I seem to be forever finding myself in situations where you feel you must be re-inventing the wheel.

Attended Day 3. It was a good session, and great start to the day for me. It's a shame it wasn't longer. I will be discussing your ideas with senior colleagues in BERR's information area, as your method would be a very interesting one for sharing/working in the future, and full of potential for our department, but would have to convince the hardened security people of its uses. It seems that many good ideas came out of the whole event, so worth pursuing everything. Thanks for an interesting talk.

As a Lion's Lair Ideas champion, researching how best to develop my idea of "A “Unified Tax System” that can work out straightaway household’s net disposable monthly income.
" I attended some 15 seminars over the three days and spoke to some 100 or so people and filled up over 40 A4 pages of jotting, I feel that we do need somewhere to share our thoughts on what we have without killing everyone with e-mails in the process. Yes yours was an interesting talk to challenge how we store information for the future.