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The July Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery will be on Thursday July 15. It’s back at the usual venue, the Studio, which is at 7 Cannon Street, off New Street. The postcode is B2 5EP. The surgery will take place at the usual times – from 5.30pm to 7pm – and all voluntary and community [...]
June 8th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inSocial Media Surgery|0 Comments
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We’re now looking forward to the next Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery, which will be at the Studio in Central Birmingham on Tuesday June 8 between 5.30 and 7pm. The address is 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B2 5EP. If you’re from a Birmingham-based voluntary or community group and would like to receive some friendly [...]
May 24th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
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Rob Benson handles E-communications for Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust. During SpeedData Rob spoke about how it might be quite difficult to get some people within organisations to appreciate the reasons for making data available, particularly within an institution like the NHS where issues of privacy are particularly important. But Rob was taken [...]
April 29th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration,Data|0 Comments
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Alex Burrows is the head of strategy at Centro, the public transport authority for the West Midlands. He explained that Centro deals with enormous amounts of data, but has until now perhaps not been as aware of some of the interesting things that other people might be prepared to do with their data. I spoke [...]
April 29th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration,Data|0 Comments
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At the beginning of this month (apologies, we’re a bit late) the Government announced that much of the mapping data held by the Ordnance Survey would be released free to the public.
April 20th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Data,Mashups|1 Comment
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The next Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery will be on April 14. We had to move it to steer clear of the Easter Holidays, so apologies to anyone who had the original date, April 7 in their diary. It’s at thestudio, 7 Cannon Street, off New Street. It’s also the same night as the Birmingham [...]
March 23rd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
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Recently I got involved in a new blog for the centre of Birmingham called Grounds that has a couple of cool things about it. Firstly, it’s based in a cafe – Urban Coffee Company in Birmingham. Secondly, anyone can join in. That’s probably the best bit about it – because anyone can send a post [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration,Social Media|0 Comments
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In Birmingham we have good experiences with the unconference/Barcamp style. Especially when it comes to gathering people around a specific topic or discussion. Another Barcamp or unconference is in the making, this time on the topic of Digital Inclusion. The people from ‘We Share Stuff’ got the idea after they attended the National Digital Inclusion [...]
August 27th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration|1 Comment
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Over at Talk About Local, Nicky Getgood (a brilliant local blogger herself) has written a short piece about the new hyper-local blog Bournville Village started by journalism graduate Hannah Waldram. As Hannah is not only a journalism graduate (like myself), but apparently also managed to do something with social media, I knew I had to [...]
August 22nd, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
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So how do you incorporate social media without making one single mistake? Easy; don’t incorporate it at all. First of all here’s what this post is all about: Birmingham City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, and Centro (the West Midlands transport authority) are currently working in partnership to improve the A41 Warwick Road route. The [...]
August 19th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inCollaboration|2 Comments
