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Yesterday Rebecca from the Francis Road Neighbourhood Watch in Acocks Green (see map) came along to the third social media surgery in Acocks Green. She worked on this blog, which she had set up at a previous one: http://francisroadb27.wordpress.com/ You might want to make her feel welcome to the world of using the web to [...]
July 28th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Local democracy,Social Media Surgery|1 Comment
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Birmingham is one of the first cities to be fully and completely mapped with Open Street Map. Open Street Map is a map build by volunteers and aim to map everything in the whole world, right down to you local shop on the corner of your street. There are a ton mapping services on the [...]
July 27th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inData|0 Comments
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Through the Help Me Investigate site , I came across an investigation regarding parking tickets, with the aim to find the most ticketed street in Birmingham in FY09. It sounded interesting, and I was delighted to see a FOI request from Heather Brooke (here it is on What Do They Know) Data, it’s a rather [...]
July 25th, 2009 | by rasga | Posted inBirmingham,Data,Mashups|9 Comments
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After the first social media surgery in Lozells we’re really pleased to be able to do another one on Thursday 20th August 2009. Once again Raj Rattu will be kindly hosting this free chance for anyone involved in voluntary and community organisations around Lozells to learn about how blogging, Facebook, Twitter or other parts of what’s [...]
July 24th, 2009 | by paulhenderson | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
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This is really a post designed to encourage people to read an interesting piece by Birmingham based Paul Bradshaw over that the Online Journalism Blog. It’s a month or so old because Paul was responding to news that Tim Berners Lee (the man who invented the World Wide Web) will be working on ways to [...]
July 24th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inLocal democracy,Mashups|0 Comments
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Chris Pinchen works for Citilab in a small industrial city just outside Barcelona. He recently visited Birmingham to learn from what was going on with all the civic social media we do here. He used to live in Rugby and hasn’t been in Birmingham since 1993, then he thought the city was a dreadful place, [...]
July 23rd, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inCollaboration|2 Comments
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The original Birmingham Social Media Surgery returns to Fazeley Studios for another session of free help and advice for Birmingham based voluntary and community organisations wanting practical help with getting their heads around social media. When & Where Next CENTRAL BRUM Surgery: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 drop in anytime between 5.30pm to 7.00pm at Fazeley [...]
July 21st, 2009 | by paulhenderson | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
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There’s seem to be plenty of enthusiasm among the voluntary and community groups in Acocks Green, Yardley, Tysley and the like for another social media surgery. So the date is soon, next monday, at the same venue as the first two: 27th July 2009, drop in between 5.30 – 7pm at The Inn on the [...]
July 20th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|5 Comments
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The retail giant has been developing a REST API (not really sure what the REST bit means) for developers to use in applications that can enhance grocery shopping. Developers will be able to search products, as well as get nutritional information, such as how many calories are in a serving of crisps or biscuits. (Programmable [...]
July 19th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inData|1 Comment
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It’s wonderful to see that Mosman Council in Sydney, Australia, is starting social media surgeries at their library. It’s also interesting to see they consider it part of delivering their community engagement strategy. I’ll quote a bit from the blog of Mosman Library: Birmingham’s social media surgeries are the model we’re working off. It’s an [...]
July 17th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inLocal democracy,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
