All help given at Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery

• 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
• Jill Bedford helped Melissa Guest to understand what blogs are, the choices of platforms to use as a blog and where to host video and audio files Recorded on Wednesday 16 March 2011
• Nick Booth helped Michael Ashburner to understand how the Walsall Link to communicate more widely using social media Recorded on Wednesday 16 March 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Katie Copson to see examples of blogs Lorna has been looking at as part of the social reporter training with DOSTI Recorded on Wednesday 16 March 2011
• Lorna Prescott helped Katie Copson to think about using Twitter as an alternative means to listen and respond to what people are saying about life in the Coventry Recorded on Wednesday 16 March 2011
• Ally Sultana helped Jasmene Smith-Brown to understand about her work with Jubilee Debt Campaign, Saheli Women's Group, and how she's interested in how social media can help Recorded on Wednesday 16 March 2011
• Jasmene Smith-Brown helped Ally Sultana to understand each others' work and the partnerships supporting women they've been involved in Recorded on Wednesday 16 March 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