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Helping Manchester’s Community Sector meet Manchester’s Digital Communities Wednesday 22 nd September 2010 Madlab 2.00-6.30pm Register: http://connecting2communities2.eventbrite.com Resources: http://socialmediamanchester.ning.com/group/connecting20communities About this Afternoon Welcome to the second Connecting 2.0 Communities Drop in. This is a partnership between Manchester City Council, MADLAB and Manchester’s various digital communities. On the GROUND FLOOR you’ll find a range of Digital Experts and Advisors who are happy to speak to you about your own organisation’s needs, to signpost you to where you might get further help, or to let you know about the various services and user groups that they represent. On the SECOND FLOOR we’ve a series of short presentations from 4.30-5.30pm. - Chi-chi Ekweozor, Realfresh TV - Karen Shannon & Sarah McLoughlin, Lets Go Global - Samantha Bail, Girl Geek Events - Steven Flower, Netsquare There are drinks available. Format of the Day You should aim to spend no more than 15-20 minutes with a particular individual or group, in order that they have opportunity to speak to other people and that you get to advise a number of attendees. When people arrive we’ll suggest who they ought to speak to during the day. The Digital Experts Today has only been made possible by the many individuals and organisations who are freely giving of their time. Dave Mee, Tandot Ltd TANDOT are a strategic design and production agency with an emphasis on communication, engagement and presence. They bridge the offline and online and help your visitors help each other. Dave can advise on One-to-one strategic consultancy, Best practice advice, and How to get started with digital. He is also one of the organisers of MADLAB. www.tandot.co.uk www.madlab.org.uk Ben Gibbs, Manchester Wordpress User Group, Ben has been a WordPress specialist for over 4 years and creates new websites using WordPress at least a couple of times each month! Manchester. Wordpress User Group is open to total beginners so see http://mwug.info to find out when we next meet. Chi-chi Ekweozor, RealFresh TV Real Fresh TV helps organisations engage with people online creatively using social media. Founder Chi-chi helps to organise the free Social Media Surgery events at MMU www.realfresh.tv Guy Lancaster, MMU Web Angels. This project is one of Manchester Metropolitan University’s community engagement projects, providing a web presence to up to 20 community groups in Greater manchester and North Cheshire, particularly Crewe, Hulme and East Manchester. This programme will be delivered by up to 20 student volunteers. http://www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/idea/webangels/ Alastair Beech is a social media, online marketing and PR specialist based in Manchester. I can provide consultancy, strategic guidance and day to day management of your digital project. He is a
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Transcript of C2C Advisors Blurb
Helping Manchester’s Community Sector meet Manchester’s Digital Communities
Wednesday 22nd
September 2010 Madlab
2.00-6.30pm
Register: http://connecting2communities2.eventbrite.com Resources: http://socialmediamanchester.ning.com/group/connecting20communities
About this Afternoon Welcome to the second Connecting 2.0 Communities Drop in. This is a partnership between Manchester City Council, MADLAB and Manchester’s various digital communities. On the GROUND FLOOR you’ll find a range of Digital Experts and Advisors who are happy to speak to you about your own organisation’s needs, to signpost you to where you might get further help, or to let you know about the various services and user groups that they represent. On the SECOND FLOOR we’ve a series of short presentations from 4.30-5.30pm.
- Chi-chi Ekweozor, Realfresh TV - Karen Shannon & Sarah McLoughlin, Lets Go Global - Samantha Bail, Girl Geek Events - Steven Flower, Netsquare
There are drinks available. Format of the Day You should aim to spend no more than 15-20 minutes with a particular individual or group, in order that they have opportunity to speak to other people and that you get to advise a number of attendees. When people arrive we’ll suggest who they ought to speak to during the day. The Digital Experts Today has only been made possible by the many individuals and organisations who are freely giving of their time. Dave Mee, Tandot Ltd TANDOT are a strategic design and production agency with an emphasis on communication, engagement and presence. They bridge the offline and online and help your visitors help each other. Dave can advise on One-to-one strategic consultancy, Best practice advice, and How to get started with digital. He is also one of the organisers of MADLAB. www.tandot.co.uk www.madlab.org.uk Ben Gibbs, Manchester Wordpress User Group, Ben has been a WordPress specialist for over 4 years and creates new websites using WordPress at least a couple of times each month! Manchester. Wordpress User Group is open to total beginners so see http://mwug.info to find out when we next meet. Chi-chi Ekweozor, RealFresh TV Real Fresh TV helps organisations engage with people online creatively using social media. Founder Chi-chi helps to organise the free Social Media Surgery events at MMU www.realfresh.tv Guy Lancaster, MMU Web Angels. This project is one of Manchester Metropolitan University’s community engagement projects, providing a web presence to up to 20 community groups in Greater manchester and North Cheshire, particularly Crewe, Hulme and East Manchester. This programme will be delivered by up to 20 student volunteers. http://www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/idea/webangels/
Alastair Beech is a social media, online marketing and PR specialist based in Manchester. I can provide consultancy, strategic guidance and day to day management of your digital project. He is a
digital all rounder with strong skills in PR, copywriting, blogging and SEO with a huge thirst for social media. http://alistairbeech.posterous.com Samantha Bail & Liz Hardwick, Girl Geek Tea Party The Girl Geek Tea Party workshops were started in December 2009 as an activity oriented addition to the popular Girl Geek Dinners. We provide a friendly and relaxed environment in which girls and women who are interested in science, engineering and technology can get an insight into different aspects of technology - outside of courses and classrooms. The free workshops run monthly and have topics like "build your own computer", "robots & arts" and "introduction to web development" - and there's always time for tea, cake and chats! http://www.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.uk
Steven Flower, Netsquared & Substance Coop Steven currently spends his days at Substance, an action research cooperative, as the Technology Enabler. Steven has spent the past 15 years working in and around non-profit causes and technology, starting with hardware, and now focussing on data. Steven is currently working on a project called Plings - which aims to aggregate and release data on positive activities for teenagers in England. Steven also organises the Manchester Net Tuesday group, which provide a useful forum for voluntary organisations to learn about technology and share skills and experiences.
Adrian Slatcher & Alan Holding, MDDA MDDA are part of Manchester City Council and deliver the digital strategy for the city-region. We run a series of programmes, such as this one, providing support about digital and web technologies. Adrian is coordinating today, and will be on hand to direct you to the various advisors attending. Alan Holding is head of MDDA’s technical team and experienced web developer and advisor on new technology, who has helped many voluntary organisations. He will be here to offer advice, but also to tell you about our forthcoming workshops. www.manchesterdda.com Karen Shannon & Sarah McLoughlin, Lets Go Global, Lets Go Global offer a wide range of digital activities, including training in new media skills & applications, volunteering, work experience, live broadcasting and streaming media. www.letsgoglobal.tv Richard Shaw, Virtual Surveys Richard Shaw, runs R&D at market research agency at Virtual Surveys. Before joining Virtual Surveys he ran a startup building online experiments for psychological research. Whilst at Virtual Surveys he has run online research projects for variety of international clients. In particular he has pioneered the use of online communities as a way for companies to communicate with people. He can advise on market research, marketing, social media, web development, mobile, analytics. Email [email protected] Twitter @richshaw Web http://separati.st Nigel Barlow, Inside the M60 Inside the M60 is Manchester’s very own hyperlocal news site, providing a daily online newspaper for all that’s happening in the city. Nigel will be on hand to offer advice on how you can get involved, and to talk about how your community group can both help and my helped by community media sites such as Inside the M60. http://insidethem60.journallocal.co.uk Paul Webster, NAVCA Paul is based at NAVCA in Sheffield (the national body for local support and development organisations) co-ordinating ways to provide technology support and signposting for local support providers, through the ICT Champions network (www.ictchampions.org.uk).He’s a strong believer in how social media can help organisations get their messages out quicker and to a larger audience, how digital inclusion of communities can reduce social exclusion and how this helps them play an active role in shaping their future. Twitter: @watfordgap This event has been funded by the Working Neighbourhood’s Fund and has been organised by Manchester Digital Development Agency in conjunction with MADLAB. If you would like to be an advisor at a future event please contact [email protected]
