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Extra Community Blogging Session

Last month I ran a couple of sessions on Community Blogging for Digital Birmingham. They were somewhat oversubscribed so I was asked to do another one which is taking place on the afternoon of August 1st at 3.30pm. It hasn’t been widely advertised as they’ve already got a decent number of people coming but there [...]

London Bound

After failing miserably to make to the Big City (far too much interesting stuff going on in Birmingham I’m afraid) I’m finally going to be in London tomorrow for a flying visit.
First stop will be the Tuttle Club, a weekly meetup of social media types held in the Coach and Horses on Greek St, [...]

Surgery Update

The free Monday Social Media Surgeries I’ve been running in Rootys cafe in the Custard Factory these last two weeks have been going rather well. With the minimal of promotion (here and on Twitter) I’ve had six “patients” with a range of problems from understanding how Twitter works to advice on writing their blogs to [...]

Ambient Feed Reading

This is an idea that’s been buzzing around my head for a while now and Stef’s Inbox Victory post (where he got his email down from thousands of unreads to zero in one day) has prompted me to try and turn into a method for dealing with RSS feeds. Or at least start the process. [...]

Social Media Surgery

I’m going to try an experiment over the summer. On Monday afternoons, from around 4 – 6pm, I’ll be sitting in Rootys, the cafe in the Custard Factory, with my laptop. If you’ve got any questions about blogging or social media in general I’ll happily help you out.
All levels are welcome. If you’ve got [...]