This is an event run by RAWM to explain how the NHS is commissioning in the west Midlands and what the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. I’ll just make key points – partly showing what is new: This is a long post with lots of quite useful information on the structure of the NHS in the …
Birmingham Social Media Surgeries
Lynn Horsnett and Nick Booth at Kings Norton SMS Over the last few years the social media surgery movement has spread further than anyone could have imagined at that first (and supposedly one off) event back in 2008. There are now surgeries held in 70 different towns and cities all over the uk, and further …
Lorna Wills – How attending Social Media Surgeries helped me find my place in my community
I first met Lorna Wills at the Low Hill Social Media Surgery in January. Recently I caught up with her again to see what had prompted her to come to a surgery in the first place and what she’s done with her new skills since then. Lorna moved into the area 2 years ago and …
Why don’t we trust networks to do things at scale? #ukgovcamp13 #lsis13
I’ve had a bonkers busy few weeks – meeting and talking to a wide range of people and it’s helped me start thinking through a problem with networks: they tend not to be trusted to reliably deliver solutions at any sort of scale. Let me share how and why I’ve started looking at this (and …