July’s Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery
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
May’s Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery
We’re heading towards our next Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery, which will be on Tuesday May 11, 2010 at the studio, 7 Cannon Street, which is just off New Street in central Birmingham. If you belong to a Birmingham-based community or neighbourhood group or charity please come and join us. You can drop in any [...]
May 3rd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
April’s Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery
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
Local data and the Data.gov.uk site
In January the data.gov.uk site was launched at an event at the Guardian’s headquarters in London. For the unitiated, this site is the government’s attemp, under the guidance of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, to take data that is in the hands of the government and make it available [...]
March 1st, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inData,Local democracy|0 Comments
How we set up a hyperlocal blog in a cafe and made it all about fun
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
The power of social media
As the Christmas season comes to a close, and we’ve seen the usual traditions trudged out across the globe – there were a couple of elements to this year’s celebrations which didn’t follow the norm and they arose from the power of social media. Someone once said social media is taking us back to ages [...]
December 31st, 2009 | by hrwaldram | Posted inLocal democracy|0 Comments
December Social Media Social
Our brains are fried, we’ve done a bunch of great social media stuff… it’s time to kick back and have a chat with friends we have met through the Birmingham Social Media Surgeries this year. Our December Social Media Surgery is going to focus mainly on the ‘social‘ part of ‘social media’. It’s a great [...]
December 2nd, 2009 | by hrwaldram | Posted inSocial Media Surgery|0 Comments
Let’s Be Social and Lozells Social Media Surgery success
With back-to-school season in September, we got our blogging skills cranked up for the next round of neighbourhood Social Media Surgeries in Birmingham taking place in Central Birmingham and Lozells. What’s more, Acocks Green have started running their own monthly Social Media Surgeries, held at the Inn on the Green, the last one being on [...]
October 5th, 2009 | by hrwaldram | Posted inSocial Media,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
Warwick Road Enhancements: Faultless use of social media for consultation?
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
Not all Birmingham Council websites are badly planned
Recently it came to light that the new Birmingham council website, was 3½ years late and £2 million over budget. The story was uncovered by HelpMeInvestigate (which I will tell you about in a few days), where members of the public can ask question and collaboratively try and answer them. But as was pointed out [...]
August 13th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
