Social Media and Learning in the Enterprise
Leeds Social Media Surgery #2
Tuesday 2nd February, 5.30pm to 7pm
Venue: Round Foundry Media Centre
Foundry Street, Leeds, LS11 5QP
(Drop in any time for free advice)
Are you interested in using blogs, text messages, Facebook, Twitter and other free web sites (sometimes called “social media”) to help a group or organisation that you belong to?
Do you already have a web site for your organisation that is difficult or expensive to update? Are you looking for an easier way to promote your activities or to share information, photos and videos online?
Leeds Social Media Surgery is a free advice session for community and voluntary groups, clubs, societies and small arts organisations. Come along to find out how you can use free web sites and services to organise activities, promote events, raise funds, collect feedback from your participants and keep a record of everything you do.
Free advice – book here – http://leedssms2.eventbrite.com/
Reflections on the first (in this format) Leeds Social Media Surgery
So, the Leeds Social Media group held it’s first Social Media Surgery last night (10th November), and all (both patients and surgeons) were agreed it was a great success. One “patient” even arrived half an hour early, had the attention of all the surgeons for his first 30 minutes, and stayed almost to the very end.
It’s probably true to say that we were all a bit nervous; would anybody turn up, would they ask questions the surgeons couldn’t answer, would we be able to cope with numbers? As it transpired, it was a relatively quiet and calm start to what we hope will become a regular fixture, we had just about enough surgeons to cover all the patients who arrived on a one-to-one basis, there was a bit of “team-surgeoning”, and myself (John Popham) and Phil Kirby were able to float around on the sidelines helping out as and when required. Mike Chitty, who is recovering from illness, also dropped in for a while, managing to complete the feat of being in two places at once, and we hope he will be joining us as a fully-fledged surgeon in the future.
On a fairly filthy night, we were heartened by the numbers of people who were able to join us at the Round Foundry, and the surgeons were kept busy throughout the evening. I made a point of speaking to everyone as they were leaving and, without exception, they were pleased with their first Social Media Surgery experience, and all said they would come again. Which is a key part of the objective, really, Social Media Surgeries seem to work best as informal events, and we made it clear that it was a learning experience as much for the “surgeons” as for the “patients”. We always thought it unlikely that we would come up with the definitive answer to all of the “patients’” issues on the first sitting, and we envisage that relationships will develop as the months progress.
Many thanks to the “Surgeons”: Monica Tailor, Sarah Hartley, Kate Brown, Lee Hicken, and Kevin Campbell-Wright. And an enormous vote of thanks to Sharon and the staff of the Round Foundry for making us so welcome and organising the venue for us.
And here’s to many more successful surgeries in the future.
First Leeds Social Media Surgery
Leeds Social Media Surgery
Tuesday 10th November, 5.30pm to 7pm
Venue: Round Foundry Media Centre
Foundry Street, Leeds, LS11 5QP
(Drop in any time for free advice)
Are you interested in using blogs, text messages, Facebook, Twitter and other free web sites (sometimes called “social media”) to help a group or organisation that you belong to?
Do you already have a web site for your organisation that is difficult or expensive to update? Are you looking for an easier way to promote your activities or to share information, photos and videos online?
Leeds Social Media Surgery is a free advice session for community and voluntary groups, clubs, societies and small arts organisations. Come along to find out how you can use free web sites and services to organise activities, promote events, raise funds, collect feedback from your participants and keep a record of everything you do.
At the surgery you’ll get chance to sit down and have a cup of tea with someone who understands about web sites and tell them about your group or organisation and what you do. This will be the starting point.
Then you’ll be able to look at the kinds of web sites and services that you might find helpful, and see what similar groups are doing. You can choose some services to try out, and even set up a web site there and then if you feel you need some help getting started.
There will be more events in 2010 when you can come back and tell people how you got on, and look for more ideas and advice. Support for beginners will be available between the events.
Leeds Social Media Surgery welcomes people with all levels of web and internet skills – from beginners to people with experience who are looking for new ideas or alternatives for their group or organisation.
You don’t have to be based in Leeds to come along, the session is open to anyone who thinks it will be useful.
The first Leeds Social Media Surgery will be at the Round Foundry Media Centre on Foundry Street in Holbeck Urban Village (see http://www.roundfoundry.net/Contact/) on Tuesday 10th November from 5.30pm to 7pm. You can drop in any time for free advice.
The Round Foundry will also be laying on free tea, coffee and biscuits.
These free advice sessions are being organised by Leeds Social Media, a group of local volunteers who are committed to using all forms of media technology to connect people so that they can get things done for themselves in their neighbourhoods.
Please sign up here if you are coming http://leedssms.eventbrite.com/
This is simply so we know how many people to expect & how many biscuits to order!
