Happily, we got to see a bunch of great presentations at Reboot Britain. The most visceral of which was Howard Rheingold's keynote.

Howard is a pioneering thinker on the future of the web and in his powerful on 21st century literacies and skills, his words felt very much at home for the Digital Health Service. We felt a kindred spirit in the room.

The five key new literacies we need, according to Howard are:

• Attention
• Participation
• Cooperation
• Critical Consumption (or 'crap-detection')
• Network Awareness

These ideas have really fed into our exploration of what are the levels of use of technology that the Digital Health Service works with people on. So far, there appear to be three levels emerging. Two of which Howard refers to here in a recent interview (embedded at the top of this post).

• Functional use: understand and use technology for it's direct functional purpose e.g search via google.
• Skilled use: use technologies creatively and intelligently to for a greater effect and reap the benefits of that effect: e.g event promotion or access, social bookmarking, social networking and content searching via people, verifying integrity of authorship, skills of transparency etc
• Self-aware use / mindfulness: how does your use positively support your short & long-term needs, and the needs of your immediate community (family, workteam, organisation, society, country), and build on your strengths so that every action you take is the most productive it can be. This is where knowing yourself and others is vital.

We believe these last two are the basis for a next generation productivity practice. Something we're very excited about.

A practice of using our technology, time and energy well is now key; since the web and our aligned us of it is - according to NESTA's CEO Jonathan Kestenbaum - central to our economy's recovery and the future wellbeing of the knowledge-workers of the UK.

We recently hosted our digital health drop-in-clinic at NESTA's timely Reboot Britain conference. We had 20 minute slots to listen to people's digital problems and offer the most significant solutions we could think of.

Ranging from pure tech email import compatibility issues, to finding the right personnel via social networking we had a lot of fun hearing what Digital Health means to everyone else! Thanks for all the attendants for booking us out! It was great to talk with you all.

And thanks to the unknown creative who whipped up the Lego logo above.  Awesome promotion - you couldn't buy it...

Drop-in to our digital surgery for information, advice, and a friendly chat!

Following on from our launch event at Demos last month we'll be at the RSA on John Adam St all day long to talk through your digital dilemmas and offer on-to-one advice for you and your organisation. Come along and continue the face to face discussions we started last month, ask us difficult questions or co-design some answers.

To register a slot just visit our handy wiki and follow the instructions.