Running Café Church … in a café

I went to church tonight. Except it was in Starbucks. Although it was definitely church. But the drinks were definitely by Starbucks.

Oh boy, another long winded rambling post about church and music and stuff. You can have the tl:dr version here: “Church in a café still looks and smells like church, which confuses me a bit.”

There.

Or read on to find out where I’m going with this.

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Summer Saturday Social Media Surgery

Just a quick note really, to remind anyone who fancies it to pop along from half nine tomorrow and join in with Walsall Social Media Surgery.

Social Media Surgery and Coffee…. perfection?

Next Saturday (20th) will see July’s Walsall Social Media Surgery kick off at half nine in the town’s Starbucks coffee shop.

Granted, that particular retailer may have a slightly patchy record when it comes to taxation and fair play, but the individual branches tend to be good, and I enjoy their filter coffee.

The event is an opportunity for those of us who are about on a Saturday morning to gather, share ideas, pick things up off one another and generally chew the fat. At the same time, some folks with fine minds and degrees from the school of life will be around to help you understand and use social media and related tech effectively. If you fancy it, please take a look at the website, and sign up. We’d love to see you.

Data Analysis (and where my next job’s coming from)

Never take your skills for granted.

Walsall Social Media Surgery – Future Dates

With the recent Social Media Surgery at the Black Country Arms, we met more people, drank beer, talked tech and generally assisted people who want to improve their skills and knowledge. I’m very grateful to fellow surgeons Dan Slee and Jimm Rennie for their sterling work.

It’s no great secret I love this activity – helping other people more or less to help themselves to the social media tools they need for their voluntary org, non profit, or their personal online activity.

So, coming up:

Social Media Surgeries – Smoothie Operators

This Saturday sees the return of Walsall Social Media Surgery. We’re meeting between 9:30 and 11:30 in the morning, at the Starbucks coffee house on Crown Wharf Shopping Park.

Sharing the sweets

At a couple of the events I’ve been to where Dan Slee has been allowed to have the floor for even a minute, he’s deployed and espoused a philosophy of “Sharing the Sweets” which I think is astounding in its simplicity.