Brierley Hill Social Media Surgery

Next date Wednesday 7 August 2013
10:00AM - 11:30AM 2 people signed up 13 places remaining

Secret Coffee Club

Pearson Street Brierley Hill West Midlands

DY5 3BL venue details and map

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We're sorry to be stuffy and give you some terms and conditions. The main thing on our mind is we don't want anyone to copy socialmediasurgery.com, what it does, or how it does it. This is easy and shouldn't get in your way. If you use this website you are agreeing to our rules. If you don't agree to them, please don't use the website.

Acceptable use

Don't be rude or defamatory.
Respect copyright. Don't rip off other people's work without attribution.
Don't set out to make like difficult for us and our infrastructure.
Treat other people with the respect you would expect.
We reserve the right to switch off accounts, suspend use and edit content at our discretion.

Surgery Managers

This website is a place created by Podnosh for people to publicise, manage and monitor their own social media surgeries.

Your surgery manager is a good person and we don't expect them to do anything besides very social things. If you have a question about a surgery your first port of call is your surgery manager – after all it's their surgery, not ours.

If you have a problem with your surgery manager please contact us.

This website

This website is made by the people at Podnosh in Birmingham, UK.

We care about the "Social Media Surgery Plus" name and logo, the website's look and feel, our software code and scripts, and our social computing techniques and how we apply them to monitoring help given at social media surgeries. All these things are unique to Podnosh and are our property. You can use them only as follows:

You can use this site for free to publicise and manage one social media surgery to support local community groups, voluntary organisations, active citizens or charities.

If you want to use this site to run several surgeries – and monitor the help given and online activity as a result of sites created or assisted with at your surgeries – contact us.

Personal information and privacy

When you sign up, we will store your name and email address. Passwords are encrypted and we do not have access to them.
Your email address will only be shown to the administrators of this website and the surgery manager of any surgery to sign up to attend. We will not share your email address with anyone else.
We store information about the dates of surgeries you sign up to, surgeries attended and the help you receive at the surgery.
You can request data we hold about you by contacting hello@podnosh.com or writing to: Podnosh, 39 Fazeley Studios, 191 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE, United Kingdom.

Cancelling your account

You can cancel your account at any time via your dashboard. This will remove any information we hold about you in the website.

Social Media Surgeries are completely free advice sessions for community and voluntary groups, clubs and societies.

Would you like to know how to use blogs, video clips, photo sharing sites, Facebook, Twitter or other free web tools to help your group? Do you want to use the web to communicate, campaign or collaborate online? We can help you do it easily and for free.

Come and meet people who understand all about social media and how you can get the most out of it. You might have specific questions that you’d like to ask, or you might just like a general introduction to what’s available. You don’t need any previous knowledge to take part, and there won’t be any lectures. We’ll talk to you one-to-one, listen to what you need and explain things clearly.

Free web tools can help you to organise activities, promote events, raise funds, collect feedback from your participants and keep a record of everything you do.

All of our helpers are volunteers or staff from local organisations who know enough about using social media tools to help someone else. Perhaps when you have learnt something new you can come back and return the favour.

Social Media Surgeries take place monthly at different locations around Dudley borough. Every three months we are welcomed by Marc Carter and his team at the Secret Coffee Club in Brierley Hill town centre. The Secret Coffee Club has welcomed us freely, so please take the opportunity to buy their fantastic coffee and cakes to say thank you!

People signed up to attend on Wed 7 Aug

Lorna Prescott Offering help
Organisation Dudley CVS Website http://www.about.me/lornaprescott Twitter @dosticen
Suzanne Gerrard
Organisation Employment Plus

Help given at Brierley Hill Social Media Surgery

Eileen Fielding helped Mark Ashbourne to Mark said, "The session I attended was fantastic and I finished the session with a far greater understanding of Twitter and was far more skilled in using it." I will soon be rolling out my Blog something that I would not have been able to do if I had not attended this session." Recorded on Wednesday 27 February 2013
Melissa Guest helped Eileen Fielding to become a helper even though she initially came along to get support. Eileen said, "I really enjoyed it! I gave the person I helped so much more confidence because he knew that it was all fairly new to me too. We've now got him set up with a new blog!" Recorded on Thursday 31 January 2013
Melissa Guest helped Andrea Somerfield to understand how to insert photographs and how to use this to market activities Recorded on Thursday 31 January 2013
Marc Carter helped Andrea Somerfield to Sort privacy & preferences on the Side by Side Theatre Company Facebook page Recorded on Thursday 31 January 2013
Marc Carter helped Andrea Somerfield to "I've got loads of creative ideas to make the Side by Side Facebook account more fun and how to gain more likes. I didn't know where to go with using social media but have now got loads of ideas. Coming to the Social Media Surgery today has been really useful!" Recorded on Thursday 31 January 2013
Melissa Guest helped Andrea Somerfield to To get an overview of how to use Twitter & Facebook "It has been so useful to chat with people who are already using social media, we hadn't though of using Twitter but can now see the potential" Recorded on Thursday 31 January 2013
Eileen Fielding helped Mark Ashbourne to Advance twitter skills insert pictures and get followers Recorded on Thursday 31 January 2013