Social Media Social

Right then, time to get this Social Media Surgery looking like a holiday activity club.

We’re meeting in August at the Black Country Arms on Wednesday 14th, at about half six. We’re not running a traditional surgery, although advice and help will be on tap as usual, but we will be chilling out, sampling the fine range of ales and other beverages available, and having a bit of a relax.

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.

What are you doing Wednesday?

Wednesday night is the next Walsall Social Media Surgery. Please consider coming along, or if you can’t come but know someone who should, share the link, or this post, or just download and print off the poster linked below and stick it to their forehead.

We’ll be in The White Lion, and everybody’s welcome.

Walsall SMS June 2013 poster

Smarten up, my Dad’s reading this

My blog is connected to my Twitter account, to which I have granted WordPress access. It’s a simple way to announce new posts and garner interest from a wider audience, and it’s a simple matter for my followers to retweet the annoucnement. By this simple method of onward promotion, traffic has been generated for posts about forthcoming Walsall Social Media Surgery dates, and singing carols in pubs at Christmas.

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:

Knowing when to Quit

Surprisingly, this isn’t a post about jobs or even employment in the wider sense. It’s about volunteering and managing events.

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.

A completely amateur approach

On October 24th, I helped out at Walsall Social Media Surgery. It was great to work with active and inquisitive folks trying to use and understand the reach of social media. In particular, I enjoyed talking with Bill Ellens from (among others) CUSP in Walsall.

I promised Bill I’d run over some of the tools I was using and talking about. So, here goes: