Comments on: October Social Media Surgery – Acocks Green

By: Spawning Social Media Surgeries. | Podnosh

Spawning Social Media Surgeries. | Podnosh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:13:26 +0000

[...] has run them in Acocks Green – which was featured by the Birmingham Post and now has a life of it’s own – plus Lozells. Alan Colson now also runs a social media surgery for councillors in [...]

By: Alan Colson

Alan Colson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:19:40 +0000

Perhaps add a tagline or subtitle for a while to get people used to the terminology?

The Computer Club, social media skills for all.

By: cyberdoyle

cyberdoyle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:22:25 +0000

We have a social media surgery every week in our village hall. We call it the computer club. Suppose we had better move with the times and change the name! Trouble is the villagers may not know what they are doing has this new name. They think they are getting together to help each other use the tools available on the web…
chris

By: Mary Horesh

Mary Horesh — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:58:17 +0000

Will pop by on Thursday. At Birmingham Friends of the Earth we have been running a blog and twitter and so hopefully can help out other organisations and share ideas. I also live in Yardley so interested in local groups around the area.

By: Julia Larden

Julia Larden — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:06:26 +0000

Am also planning to show up. I think, in answer to John’s question, my take on it would be that a lot of what we are doing now is not about how to blog in itself – which most of us can do just fine, but about using social media for networking – both picking up more local/Brum stuff and getting more of our own stuff out there to a wider audience.

By: Alan Colson

Alan Colson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:26:10 +0000

Hi John, the basic idea is that the surgeries help support community, and voluntary groups in an area in their use of Social Media. We’re not here to say what your blog or website should be about, or discuss community issues they promote, just how to use the tools available to you, of which virtually all are free to use.

By: John O'Shea (PoliticalHackUK)

John O'Shea (PoliticalHackUK) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:57:56 +0000

Hi – the AG Focus Group has put me on to this and I’m curious about this. What’s the idea of these surgeries?

By: Ged Hughes

Ged Hughes — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:43:03 +0000

Hello, yes I will be there by 6.30pm hopefully.

By: Alan Colson

Alan Colson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:29:33 +0000

Well I will be there (obviously)

By: Steve Cooper

Steve Cooper — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:27:57 +0000

We’re located usually on the left side of the pub, as the Wifi works much better in that spot.

So you Thursday