We Share Stuff has announced a new set of Sunday morning internet surgeries in Erdington – building on what else has been developing in Birmingham.
so put Sunday 23rd November in your diaries as the ‘We Share Stuff’ team will be at The Red Couch cafe, Erdington each Sunday morning from 11:00am to around 1:00pm. The [...]

The date is set:  Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 5.30pm to 7.00pm  at the same venue as the one we ran on Blog Action day in October.  To sign up for a free place and find a map to the location please visit this eventbrite link.  In this post we also have an explanation of what [...]

Above Marc Reeves sums up why The Birmingham Post must change. After 150 years as a broadsheet, he told tonight’s launch party that nothing this radical has yet happened to the paper. The loss of the Saturday edition and the change to stapled tabloid size are the the most visible changes, but to my mind [...]

Useful blog action day reminder of the orgs that can move mountains to alleviate poverty.

I was enormously proud of all the people who turned up today to help voluntary groups in Birmingham better understand the power of the social web.  I’ll revise this tomorrow but just want to pop up some links before stopping for the day….

http://gerimoshers.wordpress.com/  is the new experimental blog of one visitor who will use it [...]

I thought is was time to take stock, not least to ensure sufficient tea and coffee for the social media surgery which us Birmingham bloggy folk are organising (with BVSC) to support voluntary and community groups in the city on Blog Action Day.

If you want to know how social media can help you campaign, garner [...]

Over here Jon Bounds has reminded us of our collective Birmingham blogger wish to mark Blog Action day next week in some shared way.  When Tom Watson asked us about this a while back there was plenty of enthusiastic muttering.

The theme for blog action day 2008 is poverty, considered in it’s widest sense. So [...]

Why did I enjoy last night’s bloggers’ meet (ask me about the apostrophe) more than any other?  It was partly because we did more than sit in a pub, partly because we did sit in pub and partly because new people came. However I think it was principally because the bloggers meetings are increasingly ripe [...]