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Social Media Surgery info
That time again, and for some reason I’ve totally forgotten about it. Though I’ve not been that attentive to twitter lately.
Still will try to get to the Inn on the Green for tomorrows social media surgery. Work permitting of course. Though the plan is to got in early(ish)
/edit – got stuck in work, then stuck on the bus. Oh well, seems 4 of us dropped out.
Seems like an age since we last did one, probably because it was. Anyway attended with Alan, Ged, Julia and Mary (and someone else whose name I forgot). As does happen with these events the previous attendees now become part of the surgery and help to exchange ideas etc. Sadly no one else turned up, but it’s still early days. Getting word around is a tricky thing. But we’ll keep moving on.
As I was in Acock’s Green thought I’d have a shot…..
(actually is surgery 3, but I missed the first one).
After a mixup with the dates I actually attended the surgery this week, and it was nice to see Rebecca who I’d advised last time. She came to ask advice about the blog for her local community (Francis Road, B27). Nick Booth was on hand to offer advice about the configuration/look of the blog. Anyway, first success of the social media surgery……..
As you can see it’s very early days, but the important thing is the blog is up and running. So well done to Rebecca and Mandy.
I’ve heard about Social Media Surgeries before, in fact anyone that visit’s Podnosh will have had some exposure to them. For a while I thought, can I offer anything? So tonight I went to the Acocks Green Surgery to see what it is all about, also went along to pass on the little knowledge of WordPress that I possess.
Seemed to start of quiet, a few people who podnosh and Trav28 had met before were present. Then the 2 ladies (bec and mandy? – I may have asked the names, but in the excitement forgot!) came in and asked about setting up a blog, Nick pointed them in my direction and I was happy to help out.
Hopefully I didn’t go too technical. My hope was to have a local installation of wordpress to demonstrate, which I had – but it didn’t seem to work in the pub. Worked fine at home though. Still managed to demonstrate how easy it was to setup and configure a blog using WordPress.com.
Time seemed to fly, and it was nice to get to speak to Nick a bit more than I have done in the past. Will look forward to the next meet up around the end of July. Hopefully it’ll be a little cooler then.
I arrived a late today, thanks to a certain train network.
Anyway, today’s event was sponsored by Creative Republic. So who are they? A question I’ve asked myself, the website linked about gives you the info you need to know.
Quote from creativerepublic.org.uk
Well, we’re a group of people who are involved in the creative and cultural industries in the West Midlands, UK.
So I should really know who they are (assuming I’m creative – I guess I am).
Stef Lewandowski introduced CR and also announced the beta launch of a new Dad website called ODadeo. Now this looks to be great, a site written for dads (or expectant) by dads. Not had too much chance to have a look yet, but hopefully will over the next few days.
Also spoke to Stef who also is a really nice bloke.
Next up was a superb voice over bloke called Marc Silk, heard of him? Actually I had heard him interviewed on RadioWM recently (I think it was him). You may know him if from some childrens TV characters (such as Rocket the Rabbit on Rory the Racing car).
Marc was entertaining during his presentation.
Heard about some interesting twittery type gadgets for inclusion on blogs etc.
Overall very impressed with what’s on offer at the Social Media Cafe. There should be some pictures available as Chris Unitt was doing the video (flip I think) and both Stef and myself did a few shots of the event.
