(EDIT) The first part of what follows is a blog post created for Susan Cooper from Friends of Pitts Wood as we went along at the BrumBloggers Surgery held at BVSC in Birmingham this evening (EDIT).
Here we are trying out blogging at the Blog Action Day event in Birmingham.
Visit the Friends of Pitts Wood website for more information about their project.
That’s how simple it is to set up a blog post!
And to insert a picture – thanks Paul Henderson for uploading the picture through your Flickr account of me showing Susan Cooper how to set up a WordPress blog.
(EDIT)
Yes, that easy to add a post; and if you look at the blog of Nick Booth there are more links to the organisations we helped. Can I ask you to look at the blogs that were created tonight and try out leaving a comment … it’s what makes the “live web” really come alive!
The two hours seemed to fly by so quickly with some people disappointed that we couldn’t do more – surely a sign that this type of event should run again. Thinking about this on the train home I realised that we have enough events for the geeks, the teccies, the webbies and the planners but not enough for the community organisations to learn in simple language about those toys that we all love to play with.
This really isn’t a new idea and I know of many occasional events over past couple of years where the regional champions have run workshops / one-to-ones / surgeries etc for the communities in their area. But there can never be enough of these it seems, just as you show groups how to master social media more are arriving to learn – some about social media, but others with more basic ICT needs (such as flaky Internet, poorly maintained hardware etc) that they must overcome before moving forward at speed with blogging etc.
I can see regular surgeries across the country to tackle these questions as being an area where the proposed Digital Mentors may step in – our community champions who want to see local issues resolved and who have an understanding of how technology can achieve this. It’s going to mean us taking “a bit from here” and “a bit from there” to make the whole package – but one thing we have no shortage of is community organisations eager to know how to use technology to further their aims. (Dave we must get our head’s together on this!)
To finish – another picture of the “doctors” at work in the BVSC “surgery” and a full room of “healthy patients”!
BrumBloggers Social Media Surgery
Filed under: Web 2.0, blog action day | Tagged: bad08, brumbloggers, bvsc, digitalmentor, friends of pitts wood, quinton, woodland trust
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what you all achieved yesterday is fantastic, i’ve only started looking through the blogs that came out of it but i’m really impressed. the beauty of surgeries of this kind is that they can be spontaneous and require very little to run other than some hosts with enthusiasm, some chairs and some wi-fi. Count me in for the next London one!
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