Earlier this week Max, Nick and I went to the New Optimists Forum – Future Foods, We’re were there in a professional capacity Social Reporting from the evening to get an overview of the event online as it happened. This was Max’s first outing as a social reporter and talking to him afterwards reminded me how tiring I found it …
A perfect description of a perfect social media surgery? Bearwood.
This video is shot by the Lorna Prescott – who’s the surgery manager for the enormously successful Dudley Social Media surgery – and she’s talking to Coral Musgrave who organised last night’s first social media surgery in Bearwood. It is wonderful to see surgeries seeding with people who run one helping others develop there’s – …
4 more things volunteers think about volunteering.
Today I didn’t write a piece for the Guardian website. I didn’t set out “5 things volunteers hate about volunteering”. That was another Nick Booth, an eloquent and civically minded Nick Booth. Not (as the site thought) this Nick Booth. But it got me thinking about my own experience of volunteering. One of the main …
Wolverhampton LNP, Social reporting and finding their feet on Twitter.
We have recently been doing some work in Wolverhampton with the Local Neighbourhood Partnership (LNP), talking to their neighbourhood wardens about how they can use Twitter to communicate on their patch, the sorts of conversations they could be having and showing them practically how to use it. As I live in Wolverhampton, sit on the board for …