Welcome to the local government network

Welcome to the local government network. If you're looking around and wondering just why Guardian Professional thought the world needed yet another local government information resource, then frankly, we don't blame you. However, we're different. No, really we are. We're the innovative solution, that will help you transform your end-user services into a doing more with less environment. You've never heard that before, have you? Oh... In language we can all understand then, as well as keeping you up to date with the local government news from around the web, we're giving you a chance to shape your community and to learn from it. We'll be featuring blogs from leading figures in the sector and from those whose names might not be so well known, but whose problems are familiar to everyone. We've got anonymous insiders dishing the dirt, sector experts dishing out their best-practice advice and some local government bigwigs dishing out not very funny jokes. So much dishing in fact, that we're practically a Meals on Wheels service. Plus, we'll be running live Q&As where our industry specialists will answer your questions and hopefully make your life a little easier. It's a community site and we want it to be driven by the community, aka, you, so if you read an article which you love or hate, comment on it and say so, we want your feedback. We also want you to suggest ideas, tell us what issues are concerning you, let us know if there's anyone in particular you'd like to hear from, or just tell us what you fancy reading about this week. You can comment on any of the articles, email us or follow us on Twitter . And if that all sounds like just too much effort, you can sign up to our newsletter and we'll send you the best bits from around the site direct to your inbox. Perhaps together we'll finally be able to come up with a definition for "big society". Go have a look around but do make sure you tell us what you think. And before we go, our thanks to Twitter followers @skinner_M and @welovelocalgov for their buzzword suggestions — co-production at work. Not sure what we're talking about? You'd know if you followed us . This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional