Removed from my "things to do in life"-list: to write a book

It's finally there! This week we had a press launch for the publication of the new book I co-authored with Agnetha Broos, entitled "From City Council website towards Digitial City". Unfortunately for some of you, it's written in Dutch (entitled: "Van stedelijke website naar digitale stad"). Basically the book is about the power of social software and social networking for local communities, such as regions, cities, municipalities and neigbourhoods. The book is the result of a government funded research project I did in my previous job at Memori (pages in English: here) a research and consulting institute at the KHMechelen (pages in English: here), which is a Flemish institute for higher education.
The cool thing about this research project - and the book - is that it started in 2003, when the term Web2.0 didn't even exist. And when looking at it in retrospect, its essence is exactly all about what local governments can learn from this web2.0 revolution. And for all you Web2.0-haters out there: You won't find this meme in the book.

You can buy the book here on the publishers website. Many kudos to Uitgeverij Vanden Broele. It was very nice working with them.