Working with the Community Safety Partnerships in Birmingham has allowed us to help partners start great conversations across the city. In North Birmingham a whole host of police officers are now tweeting and community groups are starting to organise themselves online. In South Birmingham a whole spectrum of people from the Community Safety Partnership now blog & …
Department of Communities and Local Government if looking for a PHD Student for Data Linking and Sharing
I sit on the Local Public Data Panel for the Department for Communities and Local Government. The dept has an ESRC funded post for the PHD Student – specialising in Data Linking and Sharing. If you’re interested or know someone who is this is the info I’ve been sent: ESRC PhD Studentship – DCLG …
Teaming up with BBC volunteers for the Central Birmingham Social Media Surgeries
We’ve been running the Social Media Surgery in Central Birmingham for the best part of 5 years. Last night we took a leaf out of Manchester’s book and teamed up with the BBC. Steven Flower and the BBC Outreach team having been working together in Salford to bring both volunteer bloggers and volunteers from the …
Fresh start for the Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery – new volunteers from BBC Birmingham
Central Birmingham was the first social media surgery set up to support local community and voluntary orgs – nearly 5 ears ago on October 15th 2008. We’ve used various venues, from BVSC who generously helped with that first surgery through to the fine Fazeley Studios and for since April 2010 the wonderful Studio Venues. So …