I have been helping at a couple of surgeries now including the well established Central Birmingham Surgery and the Wolverhampton Surgery which I helped to get started and each one is different. Lozells and Birchfield surgery is small and whilst the Central Birmingham surgery is run through podnosh on a voluntary basis this one forms part of …
Spotlight on international social media surgeries
Photo by Mero Report: Social Media Surgery at COCAP, Nepal Social media surgeries in the UK received lots of attention last Thursday when the Prime Minister recognised the social media surgery movement with a Big Society Award for 2012. Nick posted about the award and mentioned the wonderful people who have organised surgeries over the …
Social Media Surgery movement wins the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award – hurrah!
I’m very excited to be able to say that the Prime Minister has recognised social media surgeries with a Big Society Award for 2012. The Big Society Awards were set up by the Prime Minister in November 2010 to acknowledge individuals and organisations across the UK that demonstrate the Big Society in their work or activities. …
Community building through social media – how police building relationships online can get you support when it really matters
Recently I was having a conversation with Nick about the value of social media, the community links you can build using Twitter and blogs and the value this has in the real world, when I remembered the story of PC Richard Stanley’s blog. PC Stanley is a blogging police officer and Twitter user from Walsall. He …