All help given at Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery

• Lorna Prescott helped Sarah Courbet to have loads of ideas - and get excited about using social media. She's encouraged me to look at the wider picture of our general community engagement - how to get myself on the right side of the loop of generosity. Recorded on Tuesday 9 April 2013
• James Clarke helped Dick Rodgers to explore social media and get it all to work together - it was very useful. Partly the technology but also working out how people use social media themsleves. Recorded on Tuesday 9 April 2013
• Andy Mabbett helped Narinder Richardson to become a film star and .... look at option to use social medi to reach drug users. It helped me think about which would work - for example blogs. Look at what is out there and see what to set up. Recorded on Tuesday 9 April 2013
• Steph Jennings helped ann gallagher to conquer my fear of word press -help me to feel confident posting on the local community website and how to post photos as well !! Recorded on Tuesday 9 April 2013
• Francis Clarke helped Mariana Pereira to Learn how to use wordpress Recorded on Thursday 28 March 2013
• Simon Howes helped Sarah Handley to Social engagement. Facebook. Identifying trends and key influencers. Keeping up with early adopters. Recorded on Wednesday 13 March 2013
• Lisa Armstrong helped Vic Palmer to Expolored blogs and set up a Wordpress site. One post and one draft post. The next step is to set up a Facebook group. fomcppg.wordpress.com Recorded on Wednesday 13 March 2013
• Coral Musgrave helped Izzy Knowles to explore Wordpress and go about registering the Moseley Forum domain name. Recorded on Wednesday 13 March 2013
• Francis Clarke helped Karen Osborne to enable other members of the neighbourhood to post to the Brandwood Forum Wordpress site as contributors. Recorded on Wednesday 13 March 2013
• Nick Booth helped Gail Jones to to use facebook pages. Recorded on Monday 11 February 2013
• Francis Clarke helped Gail Jones to to use faceboo Recorded on Monday 11 February 2013
• Karen Caine helped Gail Jones to think about how to use a blog to help the friedns of birmingham museum and art gallery. Recorded on Monday 11 February 2013
• Matthew Green helped ann gallagher to he told me my twittering is fine - and showed me streamed in to keep track of other twitterers - gave me a modeley of who to follow - based on their influence - looked at the oursummerfield website andf about moo cards. Recorded on Monday 11 February 2013
• Hannah Worth helped Julie Roberts to to find new apps to help moslsley in bloom capture what they are doing Recorded on Monday 11 February 2013
• Hannah Worth helped Ian Smith to use some apps and sites like flickr and wordpress - to make it easier to use on a tablet - also helped us to underdstand rss feeds. Recorded on Monday 11 February 2013
• Lisa Armstrong helped Kate Gordon to with my TLI research to understand her motivations in becomi9ng a surgeon and think about peer to peer learning and networks. Seeing the work in action is really useful for me - much better than desk work and reading. Appreciating it as a place to network. Recorded on Monday 14 January 2013
• Francis Clarke helped Katie Lee to help with priorities - making things more accesible - including things to add to the website - making things more attractive - grabbing their atention. Recorded on Monday 14 January 2013
• Francis Clarke helped Lisa Thompson to he's helped us prioritise - because there's a lot to do - including some key goals - plus how to attract more people to the website - using tweetdeck - including how to switch off alrets on tweetdeck. Recorded on Monday 14 January 2013
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped Selina Harrison to showed me how to put images into tweets and add and image anywhere and share it Recorded on Monday 14 January 2013
• Simon Howes helped Selina Harrison to helped me set up a wordpress blog and formatting wordpress and navigating around it. and how to use if this then that, to link blogs - which will help me at work Recorded on Monday 14 January 2013
• Lorna Prescott helped Selina Harrison to navigate my way around twitter adding people to twitter, saving searches and changing how it looks - we tweet about a lot of events at the wildlife trust so it will help Recorded on Monday 14 January 2013
• Lorna Prescott helped Jess Woodley to talk abut everything. twitter - how to monitor it. Guidleines around social media, some facebook, including monitoring nagative comments - social media surgeries and opening those out to residents and how they work. Very helpful. Lots of things. Recorded on Monday 3 December 2012
• Francis Clarke helped Bill Miller to focus on our events attendance and publicity and connections new to help me find ways to gte more people involved. Identifying events listings sites and Birmingham newletters sites. He was pretty foul - it's a terrible way to learn ;-) Recorded on Monday 3 December 2012
• Vicki Fitzgerald helped James Childs-Evans to understand twitter. She has revolutionised how I think about social media. To understand how twitter could speed up real tiem communication in our organisation - sharing information on different netwroks around the country. Recorded on Monday 3 December 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Pete Baldwin to he was very informative and explained things simply in terms of the structure of twitter - asked me questions of whether I like images or words to help me break things down. Very relaxed and nice and felt I could ask him anything. Recorded on Monday 3 December 2012
• Nick Booth helped Karen Osborne to to understand the architecture of wordpress - the best way to use it simply for a neighbourhood blog and I think you may have saved me some time. Lots of tags and categories. It helps to have visual explanations as well as numerical. Recorded on Monday 3 December 2012
• Paul Slatter helped Andy Mabbett to youve helped to do whatever Recorded on Wednesday 28 November 2012
• Hannah Worth helped Audrey Miller to create a new Facebook Page for the Jubilee Debt Campaign Multifaith Group. We connected the Page to Twitter. The tweets will also go to the Multifaith web page. And we tested it! Recorded on Tuesday 6 November 2012
• John Popham helped Lincoln Smith to define website content and solve technical problems with Twitter, visual display elements and website upgrades. Recorded on Tuesday 6 November 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Peter Rookes to Very patient and very clear in his instructions. We came to a previous surgery and set up our website. We needed to learn how to update our website and some new things. Recorded on Tuesday 6 November 2012
• Francis Clarke helped Audrey Miller to think about improving her WordPress site for the Jubilee Debt Campaign Recorded on Tuesday 2 October 2012
• Paul Slatter helped Audrey Miller to learn more about Twitter. Recorded on Tuesday 2 October 2012
• Nick Booth helped Peter Taylor to identify some next steps. He demonstrated how you can use a Flip camera to post material on YouTube. We talked about the purpose of a blog. Principally, get across to me the idea that blogging isn't an egocentric ramble but sharing stuff and encouraging them to share stuff back. We briefly looked at Twitter. Recorded on Tuesday 2 October 2012
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped Gavin Wray to learn about competitions on Facebook Recorded on Tuesday 2 October 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Dorota Kaczmarek to think about upgrading WordPress hosting and FourSquare connections. Recorded on Tuesday 2 October 2012
• Lisa Armstrong helped Pauline Roche to get a handle on our Facebook Page - what to do, what not to do, how to make it more effective. I've made a note and Evernote and hope to apply it soon. Very patient and helpful, relaxed. Recorded on Wednesday 5 September 2012
• Lorna Prescott helped Audrey Miller to Twitter is becoming usable! It's such a fantastic campaigning tool - tonight I've been tweeting around the world. Recorded on Wednesday 5 September 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Georgina Watts to Andy spent a short time listening to the areas I needed help with and assessing where I'd got to to date. He then went through each area in turn making suggestions, giving information, hints and tips. We also made some real time changes to our wordpress, facebook and twitter pages which really helped get me thinking about the things I need to do back at the office to take our social media/website development further. This has been the most useful hour and a half I've spent in ages so thank you very very much for all your help. Recorded on Wednesday 5 September 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Chris Perry to set menus at the top of the page. Shown me how to upload photos and documents, etc. Helped me to stop spam comments! Recorded on Wednesday 5 September 2012
• Laura Creaven helped Mujahid Ahmed to find some links to feedback websites on how they approach marketing and an event at the Town Hall. When I go back to my group I'll share what I've learnt. Recorded on Wednesday 5 September 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Sourour Trevelyan to think about how to promote the new social media surgery she is organising in Aston Recorded on Friday 13 July 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Kevin Benton to do more work with his Ladywood Blog Facebook Page Recorded on Friday 13 July 2012
• Liz Broomfield helped Mr Giorgi Pertaia to find other informal and formal networks in Birmingham to tap into, such as Birmingham Settlement, to help them raise awareness of their work with Russian-speaking and Eastern European communities. Recorded on Thursday 12 July 2012
• Alina Stan helped Audrey Miller to update her Facebook Group to do more campaigning for Jubilee Debt Campaign. Helped Audrey restore her Twitter account. Recorded on Thursday 12 July 2012
• Franziska Bährle helped Simon Baddeley to use movie making software on Apple Mac to make videos for Handsworth Helping Hands. Recorded on Thursday 12 July 2012
• Matthew Green helped Andy Mabbett to plan a funding application. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Matthew Green helped suzanne carter to understand the anatomy of Tweets and how to use Twitter to promote events for Birmingham Conservation Trust. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Franziska Bährle helped Simon Baddeley to get more confident in editing video and to start to use and compress HD video. Also troubleshoot camera connection issues. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped Upasana Salhotra to understand how to promote their work as journalism student and understand copyright issues and blogging. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped priyak dhar to understand how to promote their work as journalism student and understand copyright issues and blogging. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped achille gnoahou to understand how to promote their work as journalism student and understand copyright issues and blogging. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Nick Booth helped Zuhair to understand how to use social media to reach community groups and help people find new ways to improve their mental health Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Max Woolf helped Page Gefield to setup a gmail account which synced to his android tablet. He's coming back next time with more questions. Recorded on Wednesday 13 June 2012
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped Dick Rodgers to Dot helped Dick to link twitter and facebook Recorded on Wednesday 9 May 2012
• Dorota Kaczmarek helped Gwilym Evans to Gave some great ideas on how to reach a wider audience when using facebook and twitter and also introduced me to new ways of social media such as goggle+ and wordpress Recorded on Wednesday 9 May 2012
• Franziska Bährle helped Jo-ann Lloyd to think about how best to link Facebook and Twitter and blogs and other Bearwood pages. How to maximise the reach of the Bearwood Shuffle page. The difference between pages, groups and communities on Facebook. Looked at setting up events on Facebook. Recorded on Wednesday 9 May 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Coral Musgrave to create the very first social media surgery in Bearwood and gave great tips on how to manage a social media surgery - don't panic! Recorded on Wednesday 9 May 2012
• Liz Broomfield helped Dick Rodgers to think about where to start with social media and how to start playing with it. Looked at some SEO - particularly nice to know we're here. Recorded on Tuesday 3 April 2012
• Karen Caine helped Elizabeth Perkins to Karen has been immensely useful, teaching us to twitter ad my new volunteer to blog. I also learnt that I can upload pictures to the media library for the future. All good stuff! Thanks Karen Recorded on Tuesday 3 April 2012
• Matthew Green helped Judy Morgan to think about tasks to do on Facebook. Looked at easyfundraising.org.uk, how to channel some funds to the Jan Foundation from affiliate schemes. Looked at how to link up the Foundation's different social media accounts. How Judy could use LinkedIn to build up her profile and make use of this for the Jan Foundation. Will think about moving content to WordPress so it is easier for Judy to update. Recorded on Tuesday 3 April 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Lisa Hartley to set up a Page properly on Facebook. Initially I had done it but didn't get any options so deleted and then started again through my personal page. Also how to set up event on the page and found out can't post on groups. went through twitter a bit and now want to get a separate account for the local project. Recorded on Tuesday 3 April 2012
• Alison Tarry helped Marta Samalea to Alison has answered all my questions and much more regarding social media coverage for events, finding ways to reach wider audiences and the right people that might be interested in what Friction Arts does. Looked at digital press kits. Recorded on Tuesday 3 April 2012
• Lorna Prescott helped Lisa Armstrong to how to make her website's forum more active, making corporate tweets more personal by including her name at the end of a tweet. Also looked at a strategy and other ideas. Recorded on Tuesday 3 April 2012
• Chioma Agwuegbo helped Lorna Prescott to think about blogging regularly, using an organisational twitter account effectively - inviting visitors to the office to tweet us and leave us their twitter handles, having an organisation twitter day, introducing our staff who tweet under their own names and encouraging groups to tell us their great news Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Rob Gilbert helped Lorna Prescott to find out how to use photo galleries in wordpress and display them as slideshows and thumbnails Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Karen Caine helped Lorna Cork to have a brief look at Twitter and looked at what a WordPress blog is and what you can do with one. Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Matthew Green helped Juanita Williams to set up a Facebook Page for the Sandwell Irish Community Association and how to add photos. Had a look at her WordPress site. Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Alison Tarry helped Coral Musgrave to learn about Tumblr, benefits of Storify, pulling together and arching material. Looked at some Facebook Groups and whether they should be Pages, and the new Facebook timelines - and interesting conversation Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Pauline Geoghegan to how to tag and categorise WordPress pages, how to add video , images and audio in pages. Looked at TwitPic and a Twitter app on Pauline's mobile phone. Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Liz Broomfield helped John Newson to register a Twitter account for Balsall Heath Is Our Planet, a community initiative that aims to cut the carbon emissions of Balsall Heath, an inner city neighbourhood in Birmingham. Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Karen Caine helped ash ahmed to think about the social media tools available to help the Greenfields Neighbourhood Forum, a community group in Sparkbrook, raise awareness of what it does Recorded on Tuesday 6 March 2012
• Matthew Green helped Judy Morgan to understand how video could be used to create quick, impactful content for her blog. We set up a YouTube account to post videos and learned how to embed YouTube videos into a blog. We also looked at Judy's twitter account and followed a bunch of new people Recorded on Thursday 16 February 2012
• Steph Jennings helped Daniel Therklsen to We covered LOADS on using facebook pages and promoting them, as well as deciphering analytics, looking at page permissions, photos and outreach.... phew! A very useful session to say the least :-) Recorded on Wednesday 15 February 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Karen Caine to learn how to register on wikipedia and edit a wikipedia page by correcting typos Recorded on Wednesday 15 February 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Vicki Fitzgerald to think about a communications plan and ideas for managing a multi-author blog, looking at skills, staffing, technical knowledge, style and content Recorded on Wednesday 15 February 2012
• Karen Caine helped Marcus Belben to get an overview of how the technology works together. The details are great but the big picture is also what he came to find out about. Recorded on Wednesday 8 February 2012
• Simon helped Marcus Belben to think about using social media, wikis and blogs to support his local oral history and archiving project in Weoley Castle, which includes Birmingham Central Library, the local community and primary school. Recorded on Wednesday 8 February 2012
• Lorna Prescott helped Heather Leppard to thanks for helping explore how to make our website more interactive and how to connect with others in the area via twitter! Recorded on Wednesday 8 February 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Duncan Miller to integrate his Facebook Page into his WordPress blog, add like buttons to posts and add a Facebook widget to the blog Recorded on Wednesday 8 February 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Duncan Miller to make a Facebook Page for Worldfriends Recorded on Wednesday 8 February 2012
• Lorna Prescott helped Daniel Therklsen to understand the world of twitter - a strange place with huge potential! It was a great welcome and I've made my first tentative steps in this direction. Hopefully I can apply this to great benefit for The Vegan Society. Thanks so much - ever so kind to don Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• James Arthur Cattell helped Chris Perry to Basic help with WordPress.com. Looked at Creative Commons pictures available on flickr.com. Linking Facebook pages into WordPress blogs. Sharing Live.co.uk calendars and embedding in WordPress.com blogs Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Nick Booth helped Ian Sergeant to set up a wordpress blog for his community arts project in Birmingham, Kings heath and Aston Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Liz Broomfield helped Alison Maxam to learn to use twitter for her work with business in the community in the west midlands. Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Sara Fernie to better understand Twitter and helped her explore other platforms to access different social media accounts Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Andy Mabbett helped Kate Cooper to understand and use facebook better for her work with scientist on the new optimists. He also taught me how to link twitpic and her twitter account and also how to link twitter to facebook. he also helped make better use of her iphone. Kate also looked a Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Gavin Wray helped Kevin Benton to upload images to his WordPress blog about Ladywood Recorded on Tuesday 10 January 2012
• Liz Broomfield helped Jessica to use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to support her work with Moseley Exchange Recorded on Thursday 10 November 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Carol Austin to learn about connecting Twitter with her website, to make it more interactive and to get more traffic. Recorded on Wednesday 9 November 2011
• Stuart Sutherland helped Pauline Geoghegan to explore options for websites - WordPress and Wix - and looked at using flickr, editing images in picknik Recorded on Wednesday 9 November 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Karen Caine to learn about URL shortening in the Twitter app on iPhone Recorded on Wednesday 9 November 2011
• Karen Caine helped Lucie Thacker to learn about using her iPhone and iPad, including looking at apps, to help her use the tools to be more efficient. Recorded on Wednesday 9 November 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Kevin Benton to learn about WordPress and register a blog for the Arden Grove Residents Association Recorded on Wednesday 9 November 2011
• Karen Caine helped Lucie Thacker to insert links in a tweet using the Twitter app on her iPhone Recorded on Wednesday 9 November 2011
• Nick Booth helped emmabwoolf to understand blogs Recorded on Monday 3 October 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Sara Fernie to how to use Twitter and Facebook Pages/Events for @Oxfam_Bham Recorded on Monday 3 October 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Liz Broomfield to think about how to explore her WordPress theme's CSS Recorded on Monday 3 October 2011
• Andy Watt helped Tony Lorton to Advice given on using social media effectively and engaging with service users. Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped anita deshmukh to set up a Facebook Page for Hoult Bridge Club, link the WordPress site to Facebook. The site is now more coherent and using categories. Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Nick Booth helped Jo Burrill to create and use an Audioboo account, find more tools and ideas for blogging, embedding photos from flickr in her blog. Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Gillian Lloyd to understand more about plug ins and use of picture galleries. Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Jon Foster helped Pamela Moore to explore Twitter and learn about hashtags and @names. Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Gavin Wray helped sangita acharya to explore using Twitter and a Facebook Page to share information about the Pain Fatigue Support. We also looked at RSS feeds and Google Reader. Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Liz Broomfield helped Malcolm to optimise the pen room's use of facebook and twitter; also talked about starting a blog Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Liz Broomfield helped Malcolm to to optimise his use of t Recorded on Wednesday 31 August 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Lynette Adjei to start blogging using posterous Recorded on Thursday 14 July 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Lynette Adjei to appreciate how instant blogging is - the speed of publishing - and also look at flickr and its implications. Recorded on Wednesday 13 July 2011
• Nick Booth helped glynis and Pam to think about the best pinot grigio to drink whilst organising social media for a new women's festival for Birmingham Recorded on Wednesday 13 July 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped sangita acharya to set up a facebook page for pain fatigue support and learn how to post things onto it Recorded on Wednesday 13 July 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Lisa Thompson to appreciate how easy it is to create a blog using wordpress and how to post to walls on facebook pages Recorded on Wednesday 13 July 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Ellie Jones to understand why you would want to make use of the rss feed on your website and using tweetdeck for twitter Recorded on Wednesday 13 July 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Lucie Thacker to make list on tweetdeck accounts and also organise lists for twitter Recorded on Wednesday 13 July 2011
• Nick Booth helped Vicki Fitzgerald to enthuse her colleagues about the potential of social media in making people's lives better Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Nick Booth helped Lizzie Carroll to gurn and think about pinot grigio and some thoughts on how social media might help them communicate with GP's Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Nick Booth helped Katherine Hewitt to understand what blogs are Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Nick Booth helped Michelle Smitten to liken e-bay to being able to blog. Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• simon gray helped Ian Warren to learn about what social media is, how to use things like WordPress to publish online, and talked about creating web pages in different ways Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Shirley Cooper helped ANNE COURBET to learn about blogging for the Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery website Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Hannah Waldram helped sangita acharya to to set up a new Twitter account for Pain Fatugue Support and a personal Twitter account Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Leena Mistry to be more confident about getting started with social media tools to raise awareness of New Leaf's work. Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Joseph Dolman to understand how to approach communication as a two-way conversation rather than broadcasting messages. Joseph: Andy's help is excellent! Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Sarah Courbet to change the licensing on her flickr photos of Brandwood End Cemetery to Creative Commons so others can reuse her photos Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Nick Booth helped Lizzie Carroll to to stary thinking about how social media might help her work in communities Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Karen Caine helped ANNE COURBET to learn how to write a blog post on the Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery website Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Liz Broomfield helped anita deshmukh to set up a blog for the Hoult Bridge Group Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Tim Wilson helped Lucie Thacker to learn how to use Twitter to help her raise awareness of and increase connections with the Birmingham Conservation Trust Recorded on Thursday 9 June 2011
• Nick Booth helped Holly Waite to to think about new ways to be useful and generous in the online autistic community in the west midlands Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• Nick Booth helped Pamela Moore to learn how to blog for the Birmingham Conservation Trust using wordpress Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• Liz Broomfield helped Frankie Hine-Hughes to work out how to optimise his use of Twitter and Facebook business pages; we also talked briefly about LinkedIn and its groups function Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• Liz Broomfield helped Terence Paget to get to grips with Twitter and more detail on Wordpress so he could get his message across and check how people were getting to his website Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• simon gray helped Carol Lumley to learn about how to set up a website / blog for her organisation, how to market it, and how to plan and organise their content Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Frankie Hine-Hughes to think about tweeting, blogging and using a Facebook page to support Governance International's work Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Ellie Gabbay to set up a new website for Balsall Heath Park in Birmingham Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• simon gray helped Caroline Kenny to fix the username on her organisation's facebook page, and gave general advice on marketing Recorded on Tuesday 10 May 2011
• Liz Broomfield helped Guy Collier to think about cross-posting on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. They talked about etiquette (or lack of) in social media and to just go for it. They also discussed hyperlocal sites, the Birmingham 'twitterati', how reciprocity works online and being yourself Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Rickie Josen helped John M Cooper to see examples of how Twitter can be used to connect with people working for charities. Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Rickie Josen helped khaled to use HootSuite, Facebook and Twitter. Talked about using Twitter as a conversational tool to build relationships and get word out. Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• James Arthur Cattell helped Lyndsay Stewart to Discuss SM platforms, blog platforms, using Google to find information and strategy pointers Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Lorna Prescott to think about ideas in preparation for a social media surgery she is running in Dudley Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• nichole samuels helped Lyndsay Stewart to Infomration based on own experiance as a novist social reporter. Discussions about approach to twitter and other social media platforms. Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Jon Card helped Jo Burrill to to use use wordpress and flickr and talked about social media as a whole Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Dan Davies 23 helped Sarah Hill-Daniel to Showed me how to use Hootsuite to manage Facebook and Twitter. Talked about syndication pros and cons. Twitter etiquette. Started a Facebook group. Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Simon Howes helped Daksha Piparia to build their social media presence. Showed how to integrate Facebook like button and Twitter re-tweets button to their Drupal system. Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Simon Howes helped Sophie Parkes to build their social media presence. Showed how to integrate Facebook like button and Twitter re-tweets button to their Drupal system Recorded on Wednesday 6 April 2011
• Dan Davies 23 helped Jon Card to by showing him some of the finer intricacies of Wordpress and enjoying a bottle or two of Bud with him Recorded on Wednesday 9 March 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Matthew Green to understand how WordPress themes are put together. We looked at the Web Developer toolbar and how to edit theme's styles with a live preview. Recorded on Wednesday 9 March 2011
• Nick Booth helped Roddie Grant to appreciate how they migth use social media to support homeless people in Rugby - and messed with his head little. Recorded on Wednesday 9 March 2011
• Mark Hill helped Jon Card to get some fresh opinion on his website, which is up and running already, with some suggestions on how to promote the site and give it more visual punch. Recorded on Wednesday 9 March 2011
• Gavin Broughton helped Gavin Wray to discover networking events related to technology and startups in Birmingham. Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Paul Hadley helped Barbara Welford to learn about how Facebook Groups and Twitter can be used to promote charities' work. Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Nick Booth helped Rob Newton to to get on with twitter and brought him up to date about the Birmingham Conservation Trust. Rob's looking forward to getting involved. Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Nick Booth helped Pamela Moore to learn how to use Twitter to share her interest in architecture around the city centre. Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Simon helped Matthew Green to learn about how to set up a blog for volunteers across Birmingham to talk about the work that they do. He left intending to set up his own personal blog in order to learn the ropes and then pass this on. Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Stuart Sutherland helped Matthew Green to think about how to get started with blogs and how they might be developed in future Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Pete Lowen to get started with Twitter - he's @BhamLawCentre Recorded on Thursday 10 February 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Jackie Moore to think about engaging a local community, offline and online Recorded on Monday 10 January 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Martin Pulwer to use lists and hastags in twitter and tweetdeck and muse on how to manage facebook message overlaod! Recorded on Monday 10 January 2011
• Andy Mabbett helped Coral Musgrave to make Smethwick Libraries' Twitter and Facebook more of a 2-way conversation and how to increase followers Recorded on Monday 10 January 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Neil Holland to learn about blogging on the Birmingham Conservation Trust website Recorded on Monday 10 January 2011
• Gavin Wray helped Lucie Thacker to add images and video to her blog Recorded on Monday 10 January 2011
• Gavin Wray helped James Arthur Cattell to start a blog about a social capital index Recorded on Thursday 9 December 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Becs Prestcott to Advised re how to use social media to promote fund raising activities Recorded on Thursday 9 December 2010
• Simon Harper helped Simon Cripps to Advised re use of social media for promotion of fund raising activities Recorded on Thursday 9 December 2010
• victor helped Gavin Wray to understand more about the theory of Dunbar's Number (a threshold over which you can't sustain meaningful connections) and the importance of connecting with influencers in your social network Recorded on Thursday 9 December 2010
• Gavin Wray helped victor to to understand how to use lists in Twitter as a more manageable way to follow a large number of people's updates Recorded on Thursday 9 December 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Jutta Stahlhacke to to set up a community consultation using Google Docs Recorded on Friday 26 November 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Matthew Hartley to plan a promotional campaign with Facebook and Twitter for Gecko Arts & Media Recorded on Friday 26 November 2010
• Nick Booth helped Page Gefield to think about how he can use Facebook to talk to council tenants Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Nick Booth helped Emma Neil to refine her blogging skills for the Birmingham Conservation Trust Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Graeme Croton to think about ensuring users' details are secure when developing a discussion forum Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Melvin Green helped Danielle Hopley to to set up a strategy to 1) get over her fear of social media and 2) give her a roadmap on what she needs to do Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Gudrun Limbrick to learn about email discussion groups to help support collaboration Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Jon Stahlhacke helped Jutta Stahlhacke to investigate tools for online surveys Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Gavin Wray helped Phil Beardmore to find appropriate web tools for him to post updates about Kings Heath Transition across Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Nick Booth helped Carole Finlay to learn about setting up a blog to support local groups of council tenants in Birmingham Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Nick Booth helped Lisa Deeley to learn about setting up Facebook pages for local groups of council tenants in Birmingham constituencies Recorded on Thursday 25 November 2010
• Gavin Wray helped Lucas Hughes to basics of RSS, wordpress, big city talk, brain engaged Recorded on Monday 13 September 2010
• ChimeraX helped Stuart Sutherland to use Google Latitude for location tracking and to view reports. Recorded on Monday 13 September 2010
• Nick Booth helped MikeLeigh Cooper to get the best out of http://www.socialmediasurgery.com on his 'Zorro' like mission as the caped social media crusader! Recorded on Thursday 15 July 2010
• Andrew Brightwell helped Simon to explore how to 'scrape' websites for the contents in a nice bit of surgeon reciprocation! Recorded on Thursday 15 July 2010
• Simon helped Andrew Brightwell to explore how to 'scrape' websites with clever tools like http://scraperwiki.com Recorded on Thursday 15 July 2010
• Karen Caine helped Audrey Miller to to explore how to drive more traffic to her blog with a newletter page and ideas of a neater domain name Recorded on Thursday 15 July 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Audrey Miller to create some enthusiasm for the very first social media surgery blog (http://jdcbirmingham.wordpress.com) Recorded on Thursday 15 July 2010
• Heidi Blanton helped Jane Hartnell to understand more about facebook & rss feeds Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Heidi Blanton helped Paula Mitchell to not be so scared Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Bert Brightwell helped Mark Binnersley to understand Twitter, twittermap, hashtag and trending Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Heidi Blanton helped Paula Mitchell to to give advice on Facebook and website. Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Heidi Blanton helped Jane Hartnell to give advice on Facebook and website. Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Lenka Moore to Start a Wordpress website Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Andy Mabbett helped Lenka Moore to set up a Wordpress account Recorded on Tuesday 8 June 2010
• Gavin Wray helped Emma Neil to use google analytics and lots more! Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Gavin Wray helped Hannah Severn to consider using delicious to save and share bookmarks for later reuse when writing blog posts. Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Gavin Wray helped Emma Neil to see how many people read her blog posts using Google Analytics, ideas on types of blog post. Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Nick Booth helped Gavin Wray to learn how to use Amazon Affiliate links Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Gavin Wray helped Hannah Severn to improve my blogging Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Mary Horesh helped Amy Mcleod to understand google analytics and search engine optimisation Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Heidi Blanton helped Anna Watson to WordPress, Twitter, and RSS for Localise West Midlands site. Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Nick Booth helped Monika Metykova to understand social networking better Recorded on Tuesday 11 May 2010
• Heidi Blanton helped Nancy Langfeldt to develop website: bhmfoodcoop.wordpress.com Recorded on Thursday 15 April 2010
• Danny helped John Newson to embed a map and a calendar and potentially nest pages and add categories Recorded on Wednesday 14 April 2010
• Alison Smith helped Corinne to set up a website + blog Recorded on Wednesday 14 April 2010
• Nick Booth helped Martin Miley to learn about scribd Recorded on Wednesday 14 April 2010