Gavin Wray // Carefully crafting content since 2001

The Birmingham social media surgery for voluntary and community groups is now one year old. Huzzah! The first surgery took place in October 2008 at the BVSC and since then has developed into something quite special.

Here’s a video capturing the essence of what the surgery is and how those taking part feel about it (video by John Popham and questions from organiser Nick Booth).

Yesterday I spent a wonderful hour meeting Attiye Faraji at the sixth social media surgery in Birmingham.

Attiye is a health and wellbeing lead for young people at Health Exchange, which aims to “make health services available and accessible to all members of our community”. It’s a partnership development between the Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust and Birmingham City Libraries.

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Video by Nick Booth

Just a quick writeup following the third Social Media Surgery for voluntary and community groups based in Birmingham, organised by Nick Booth, and held at the Birmingham Voluntary Services Centre in Digbeth.

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The second free Social Media Surgery for voluntary and community groups in Birmingham was held at the BVSC in Digbeth on 26 November 2008.

The idea behind the surgeries is to help individuals working in voluntary and community projects in Birmingham who want to know how to make better use of the web and social tools to benefit their work.

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