Do you want to find out more about Twitter, Facebook, blogs, free websites, sharing photos and other social media tools? Do you want to find out about new ways to tell your organisation’s story to people in Newcastle? Come to the Newcastle Social Media Surgery!

You will 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. The session is a drop in and you will have about 20-25 minutes to talk with a volunteer surgeon about all things social media.

The Newcastle Social Media Surgery is a free session for voluntary and community groups, charities and active citizens. The surgery is run by volunteer social media surgeons who know enough about social media to explain it to others and are enthusiastic about how social media can help voluntary and community groups, charities and people in Newcastle.

This a free event and places are limited so book a place. If you’d like to volunteer, you can register your support too.

Help given at Newcastle Social Media Surgery

• William Mortada helped Shruti Jain to discussed social media techniques and strategies Recorded on Friday 6 July 2012
• William Mortada helped Dermot Killingley to create a Facebook page for the S.Y. Killingley Memorial Trust https://www.facebook.com/pages/SYKillingley-Memorial-Trust/258889450891901 Recorded on Friday 6 July 2012
• stephanie cole helped James Littlewood to learn more about using Twitter for his organisation. We covered hashtags, retweets, sending tweets, @user names, lists, tweeting photos. However, we wondered if Twitter was the right medium! The other surgeons also talked to James about Wordpress websites, RSS feeds and integrating his Wordpress website with Facebook and Twitter Recorded on Thursday 5 July 2012
• Janet E Davis helped Chrissy Watt to using social media with volunteers and young people key issue we tackled was social media with young people under 13 because the majority of social media sites are US-based, and US law prevents under 13s using it looked at best ways of involving under 13s such as using blogs (duplicating some content on twitter and facebook) and moderate comments carefully and make it a safe space for young people to use using twitter and facebook for over 13s with separate accounts for volunteers and the young people automating content for twitter, facebook and blogs, and using several volunteers to create content Recorded on Wednesday 16 May 2012
• Ahsan Ahmad helped Peter Woods to blogging platforms video logging youtube marketing how to post pictures and videos on twitter getting more followers on twitter Recorded on Wednesday 16 May 2012
• Ahsan Ahmad helped Khatoon Khan to advice on twitter set up and use hashtags google keyword research facebook pages and paid advertising Recorded on Wednesday 16 May 2012
• William Mortada helped Rob Wylie to Discussed using WordPress and Blogger as a social media platform. Talked about live video streaming. Discussed linking websites to Facebook and Twitter etc. Recorded on Wednesday 16 May 2012
• William Mortada helped Barbara Cage to Discussed a broad range of topics including social media, website design, automated SMS systems, databases and CRM systems... Also discussed marketing and comms strategy Recorded on Wednesday 16 May 2012
• Graham Jordan helped Peter Woods to Explored RSS feeds and iGoogle, and gave links to local contacts Recorded on Wednesday 16 May 2012

Links created or updated at Newcastle Social Media Surgery

• https://www.facebook.com/pages/SYKillingley-Memorial-Trust/258889450891901 Added on Wed 4 Jul 2012