Canton Social Media Surgery

Next date Wednesday 7 March 2012 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)

Market Road, Canton, Cardiff

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Do you have a story to tell about your community? Or a local concern you want to voice? Perhaps you belong to a community group wanting to promote activities and events online, share photos, videos and information?

Welcome to Social Media!

Free websites (often called Social Media) like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and blogs can help you or your group reach a wider audience via the Internet.

Have you heard of Social Media but are unsure how it all works? Or how it can benefit you or your group? Come and see our Social Media Surgeons. We can help you or your community group get started.

Relaxed, informal, free and as non-technical as you need!

Also, if you or your community group are already blogging, tweeting and sharing online but want to gain more confidence. Come along and our Social Media Surgeons can help you to be more effective.

Our events are part of Cardiff Local Social Media Surgeries Initiated by Wales Online & Guardian Cardiff. Hosted by Chapter Arts Centre.

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Help given at Canton Social Media Surgery

Megan Price helped to see if any improvements could be made Cardiff Cycle Chic's existing Facebook page. Looked at how to create and move discussion / activity on their Facebook page Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Rhys Gregory helped to raise social interaction of Cardiff Feminist Network. Discussed social media strategy. How to link Twitter & Facebook to their blog. (Assisted Jean Baptiste Mac Luckie) Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Jean Baptiste MAC LUCKIE helped Richard Berry to understand more about setting up a Wordpress blog for Cardiff Storytelling Circle - how to give it a more social dimension for collecting participants comments / thoughts and sharing references. Presentation of Disqus & Buddypress & Facebook group / page Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Megan Price helped Richard Berry to understand more about setting up a Wordpress blog for Cardiff Storytelling Circle - how to give it a more social dimension for collecting participants comments / thoughts and sharing references Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Joe Conaghan helped Jenny to start a blog. Set up a Wordpress blog for personal use for Jenny to experiment with how to use / run a blog. Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Megan Price helped Joy Lock to understand how to use her Mp4 Player. We will look in to assigning Joy a Surgeon to deal with this query at the next Surgery. Giving us time to study how her particular MP4 player works. Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Jean Baptiste MAC LUCKIE helped Rebecca Haves to utilise and create social media for Big Screen Vale (film showings in Cowbridge Town Hall). Helped with basic tips on Twitter / more followers and increasing 'reach' of their Twitter account. Created a Facebook page for BSV and how to use it. Discussed ho Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Megan Price helped Sara Drysdale to learn the best way of setting up a Facebook page for a group of younger people for Save the Children Cymru. Looked at security on Facebook pages / groups. Also looked at Twitter hashtags and lists. Explored the way Twitter and Facebook displays on iphone Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Joe Conaghan helped to set up a wordpress blog for Nicky of Peartree Languages. The blog will be a combination of personal use and issues around Canton, Cardiff Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Megan Price helped nigel pugh to clarify lists / following other people's lists on Twitter for Canton Green Party's Twitter account Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
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All help given at Canton Social Media Surgery

Jean Baptiste MAC LUCKIE helped to raise social interaction of Cardiff Feminist Network. Discussed social media strategy. How to link Twitter & Facebook to their blog. Recorded on Tuesday 13 December 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Charlotte Thorpe to progress further with mamigreen's social media strategy - discussed Facebook strategy & content creation. Also discussed URL syncing. Charlotte wanted advice on the best way to reach others through mamigreen's existing social media Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Jean Baptiste MAC LUCKIE helped Pat Gregory to understand the method of creating a Facebook page and how to link it to a website. Also with an understanding of using images on Facebook Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Joe Conaghan helped Linda Evans to have an understanding of social media - blogging, Twitter, Facebook etc. She wants to help others set up blogs. Discussed # and @ on Twitter in relation to 'real' accounts of Surgeons at CantonSMS. This brought Twitter to life for Linda Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Louise to o create a unique URL as regards Facebook Page for Co-Housing Cymru. Sarah from Co Housing Cymru also sat in on session Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Linda Rigby to create a unique URL as regards Facebook Page for Co-Housing Cymru Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Megan Price helped Kristos Palmer to understand & use Twitter for mental health support group My Tears Are Real. Explained how Twitter feed works & useful search tools to find interesting content Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Jean Baptiste MAC LUCKIE helped Hywel Wiliam to sort out his Linked In account: merged 2 accounts - exporting & importing contacts & closing first account. Hywel also had question relating to Facebook & basic Twitter tuition for another time Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Joe Conaghan helped Darren Avery to find a focus, more of a direction with blogging. Shown Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler, Wordpress. Discussed smartphone apps Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Dominic Rai to find appropriate social media visibility for Men Talking (a small arts organisation - stories concerning mens health) for launch next year. Sketched out basic social media strategy. Dominic will return when entire social media concept established Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Louise to to understand Facebook pages in relation to Co-Housing Community & Land Developments. To help grow their communities and use social media more effectively. Both Louise & Sarah were assisted with this Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Juliette Llewellyn helped Jenny Howell to to submit a question to the Surgeons as regards saving a Google Map for Riverside Community Garden Project & Orchard Cardiff - to be answered via email as Jenny came late on Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Megan Price helped Miss Christalla Davies to start to activate the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ME (Chronic Fatigue CFS) Support In Glamorgan Facebook event page - with a view to continuing once past details of page are obtained by Surgeon Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Geoff helped Miss Christalla Davies to produce a blog post & tweak the 'Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ME (Chronic Fatigue CFS) Support In Glamorgan - MESIG' Wordpress.com site Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Althea Collymore to understand Hootsuite basics for the Welsh Refugee Council Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Elio Assuncao helped Abigail Charles to to use social media in relation to developing a Welsh presence of the Federation of City Farm's & Community Gardens. Talked through Facebook pages and admin. Elio assisted Megan Price Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Megan Price helped Abigail Charles to use social media in relation to developing a Welsh presence of the Federation of City Farm's & Community Gardens. Talked through Facebook pages and admin Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Geoff helped Althea Collymore to to understand basic Twitter 'Tips & Tricks' & You Tube in relation to the Welsh Refugee Council's social media. Design Tips. Using search to find relevant users. Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Allan Blair Beaton helped Hywel Wiliam to develop Facebook pages for The Royal Television Society & Cardiff Wine Tasting. Discussed content creation, how to build community & fans. Also discussed 'liking' other pages. Took brief look at using Twitter to best advantage too Recorded on Tuesday 11 October 2011
Amelia Forsbrook helped Jenny Howell to save a map & import data with Google Maps and find most efficient way of uploading photos from Windows 7 to various Social Media for Riverside Community Garden Project / Orchard Cardiff Recorded on Tuesday 20 September 2011
Sarah Mia helped Hywel Wiliam to create an Event for the Royal Television Society (RTS) Wales Facebook Page. Also to upload a picture, find followers and mention people on Twitter Recorded on Sunday 11 September 2011
Geoff helped Robert Curtis to make local community group Cycle Cardiff website to be found more easily. Suggested Twitter / Facebook use. Gave basic SEO tips. Recorded on Sunday 11 September 2011
Nicky Getgood helped Marjorie Llewellyn to set up an email account to enable her to access Social Media to connect with family members. Helped Marjorie with how to read her emails in the inbox & send her 1st email. Signed Marjorie up to www.go-on.com a short free course to help with getting online Recorded on Sunday 11 September 2011
Elio Assuncao helped Gary Oldacre to create a Wordpress.com blog for raising awareness for a number of local charitable organisations, including Alzheimer's Society. Gave a detailed insight to Wordpress.com settings Recorded on Sunday 11 September 2011
Steve Dimmick helped Samantha MacNamara to add a link to Governors Wales Facebook Page. Also demo'd Bitly for link usage and Posterous usage. Recorded on Sunday 11 September 2011
Geoff helped Katie Cooke to understand Twitter (hashtags etc), Tumblr (branding, blogging tips). Introduced Google Analytics, Offline Marketing (email signatures etc). In relation to Novas Scarman (Switched On Project) Recorded on Sunday 11 September 2011
Francesca James helped Aled Jones to link in a Twitter account with overall strategy of not for profit organisation Ystafell Athrawon (Staff Room) for Welsh language teachers. Twitter - using hashtags, following, shortening links. Published Facebook page. Hootsuite for multiple accounts Recorded on Thursday 11 August 2011
Megan Price helped Mairi Coyle to develop a Social Media presence for an Early Music Choir. Looked at Facebook pages / Eventbrite as an alternative to a full website Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Sarah Mia helped Daniel Phillips to increase social engagement and networking for Cardiff Water Aid - how to find followers on Twitter and to channel people to Cardiff Water Aid's blog. Discussed Eventbrite and Feedreaders Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Peter D Cox helped Maria Macarthy to increase her connections through networking via Social Media. Also an understanding of how to link status updates between Social Media accounts Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Megan Price helped Gwion Thorpe to Deepen his knowledge of blogging on his Inspiring Cardiff Blog - went through embedding, linking. Also to look at creating a Facebook presence for The People's Supermarket project. Also how to maximise coverage for both projects - hashtags, promotion Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Geoff helped Elizabeth smith to initiate her ideas for a community based idea through Social Media. Recommended a blog and forum software, showed Liz how to set up a Wordpress.com account from scratch Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Sarah Mia helped Helen to create a Facebook page to link in with the new Social Media policy for Cardiff Community Housing Association. Also looked at a brief overview of Klout and Googleanalytics Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Francesca James helped Joy Lock to find a way in to using Social Media - how to download Radio 4 Podcasts for her MP4 player, how to search for lifestyle blogs of interest to Joy, helping her understand what blogs are Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Geoff helped Lorraine Gray to create a new Blogger post & add a comment. To enable Lorraine to participate in Incandescent's private blog - listing poems read at Incandescent's sharing published poetry meeting in Cardiff Central Library Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Megan Price helped Stephen James to understand Twitter, Wordpress basics especially blogging / commenting Recorded on Monday 8 August 2011
Jen Thornton helped nigel pugh to understand Twitter better & join in Twitter based discussions. Demo'd Linked In as a way to finding other industry colleagues Recorded on Saturday 9 July 2011
Jen Thornton helped Victor Phezulu to understand how Facebook pages & Twitter work to drive website traffic. Took a brief look at Wordpress blogging as regards a social enterprise idea Recorded on Saturday 9 July 2011
Jen Thornton helped Louise Weinzweig to set up tabs on Facebook as regards community group involvement Recorded on Saturday 9 July 2011
Louise Weinzweig helped Ken Bailey to ascertain which social media would be best to use as regards collating information from local church's for community based research. Also gave a basic introduction to Twitter & helped Ken set up a Twitter account for this purpose Recorded on Saturday 9 July 2011
Jen Thornton helped Amy H to look at the aesthetics of her blog via Wordpress Design & advised on the use of images in blogging Recorded on Saturday 9 July 2011
Louise Weinzweig helped Jain Boon to to understand Twitter better & advised incorporating Social Media channels (Flickr, Vimeo, Facebook etc) in to a website for Gwent Young Peoples Theatre Recorded on Saturday 9 July 2011
Megan Price helped Bethan Samuel to evaluate Community Housing Cymru existing social media activity and look at ways forward for growth & analysis Recorded on Thursday 2 June 2011
Megan Price helped Edwina OHart to evaluate Community Housing Cymru existing social media activity and look at ways forward for growth & analysis Recorded on Thursday 2 June 2011
Francesca helped Sarah Rogers to have a more in-depth understanding of social media for Earthfall. Assisted Peter D Cox Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Francesca helped beki price to have a more in-depth understanding of social media for Earthfall. Assisted Peter D Cox Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Peter D Cox helped Sarah Rogers to have a more in depth understanding of social media, with particular interest - Earthfall connecting with young people & amalgamating various social media Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Peter D Cox helped beki price to have a more in depth understanding of social media, with particular interest - Earthfall connecting with young people & amalgamating various social media Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Jen Thornton helped Francesca to understand further the role of social media surgeon Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Megan Price helped michelle davis to understand further the role of social media surgeon Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Jen Thornton helped Richard Jackson to have further knowledge of Wordpress blog for Albatross Archive Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011
Jen Thornton helped Joy Lock to understand the basics of Facebook for personal use & what blogs are Recorded on Wednesday 1 June 2011

Links created or updated at Canton Social Media Surgery

http://bloggingthelimelight.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://cardiffcyclechic.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://feministcardiff.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://inspiringcardiff.com/ Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://jibberino.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://mamigreen.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://mesig.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://partridgeinthepeartree.wordpress.com/ Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/BigScreenVale Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/CantonGreens Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/CDF_Cycle_Chic Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/kenbailey1 Added on Wed 6 Jul 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/mamigreenwales Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/MenTalkingUK Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/MyTearsAreReal Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/savechildrencym Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/TPSCardiff Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/welshrefcouncil Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/Ystafellyrathro Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://wateraidcardiff.blogspot.com/ Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://www.facebook.com/CohousingCymru Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://www.facebook.com/groups/139821589379105/ Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://www.facebook.com/groups/27075907877/ Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://www.facebook.com/groups/312097713982/ Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://www.facebook.com/mamigreen?sk=wall Added on Wed 2 Nov 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cardiff-Community-Housing-Association/129775990372561 Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cardiff-Wine-Tasting-Circle/175682202511229 Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cohousing-Cymru/346810313307?sk=info Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RTS-Wales-Centre/205582719471677?sk=info Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Peoples-Supermarket-Cardiff/172606836134757 Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/WaterAid-Cardiff/170239126360536 Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ystafell-Athrawon/116155678475388 Added on Wed 3 Aug 2011
http://www.facebook.com/Welshrefcouncil Added on Wed 5 Oct 2011
https://twitter.com/#!/FeministCardiff Added on Wed 7 Dec 2011

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Wed 7 Dec 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)
Wed 2 Nov 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)
Wed 5 Oct 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)
Wed 7 Sep 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)
Wed 3 Aug 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)
Wed 6 Jul 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)
Wed 1 Jun 2011 at Chapter Arts Centre (in The Cwtch)

Canton Social Media Surgery

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Recent Tweets with hashtag #cantonsms

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LouiseHartrey Wed 22 Feb 2012 11:03PM

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rhysgregory Wed 22 Feb 2012 12:08PM

SocialbullUK Wed 22 Feb 2012 12:08PM

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