[Powys] [Shropshire] Social Media & The Accessible Web @ [Fwd: Green Drinks 8th July, 2010]

[Richard Smedley]

On 09/07/10 09:25, Holloway, Dave wrote:
> I attended Richard (and Judys!) talk last night and here's a bit of feedback:

Hello Dave,

Thanks for the write-up. It was good to see you there.

> While, from an IT point of view, it didn't cover much that I wasn't already 
> aware of (although it's always nice to have someone else verify your
> understanding of the world!), I found it interesting to gauge the level of
> understanding of "normal" people around this type of technology.

...& it was good to have another techie there to keep me on my toes ;-)

> It also occurred to me, especially as I may be looking for work in September,
> that there are plenty of people who'd make good use of someone techy to
> improve their presence on the web, whether it's installing/configuring
> wordpress etc or doing bespoke development. So a good opportunity to network.

The voluntary sector as a whole (and large swathes of the
environmental movement) are lacking IT knowledge at every level from
basic training to IT strategy. There's always room for imaginative
approaches to helping groups...

...incidentally, Monday 12th saw Shrewsbury's first "Social Media
Surgery". The "surgeons" actually outnumbered the charities in
this case, leaving time to network with fellow techies, but
judging by Birmingham's Social Media Surgeries, these things
build up a big audience over time.

Oh, and speaking of WordPress, there were many of us from the
voluntary sector at WordCampUK this weekend - WP use for community
groups is huge, for all the obvious reasons :)

> On the green side of things, it was good to see that their campaign seems
> to be gaining momentum and I'll certainly be googling "guerrilla gardening"
> sometime within the next week.

:-)

> Nice old pub too and plenty of parking around the place.

And only 5mins from the station ;)

Look forward to seeing some of you at other Green events :o)

 - Richard

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Potteries Hackspace - 7pm, Th 22 July
SHOP - the art space in the emptyshop project in Stoke:
116 Church Street, Stoke Town, Stoke on Trent, ST4 1BU.

Gemma Thomas of SHOP will be giving an outline of the project.