OK, so I'm here with Alison from Pesky People at Septembers Social Media Cafe.
We have just been having a chat and Alison has kindly offered to
sponsor October's Social Media Cafe event.
Can you tell us a bit about that Alison Please.
It would be really nice to give something back to the
Birmingham Social Media Cafe because believe it or not
my first social media cafe was in August 2009 and
as a result of meeting people like Podnosh, Stef Lewandowski
Paul Bradshaw, and even Documentally was at that one.
And they all said, start blogging, use Wordpress
and believe it or not I went home that night and wrote my first
blog ever and set it up on Wordpress as Pesky People.
And the support and advice that I got from the Social Media Cafe
and people that have done other things like the Social Media
Surgeries really made a massive difference, and
it's quite nice that I'm here and it's sponsored by
Talk About Local because they gave me a lot of support
in the early days. So anybody who is thinking about doing something
around blogging and social media, it's a brilliant way of meeting
people, it's a brilliant way of getting advice, and it's a brilliant
way of getting support and it's also a nice way of meeting
various people, so it would be really good to give it support for
that reason. And also I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now
with Pesky People and blogging and campaigning about digital
access. But also getting funding and support to pull together
a website for Go Genie which is going to put all the access
information in one place. And believe it or not, since that first
time I got support from Nick Booth/Podnosh and Stef Lewandowski who is
working with us on Go Genie. So it's a really lot of things
that have happened in a really short period of time in 3 years
so it's nice way of saying, in a very small way, a massive
thank you to the Social Media Cafe and the people who are
involved in it, and you of course as well
Karen: Thank you very much for sharing your story
story about the Social Media Cafe. Thanks Alison.
Alison has kindly offered to sponsor the next
Birmingham Social Media cafe event in October.
Can you tell us a little bit about that please Alison?
I've thought about it for a while, but not really had the
resources to offer....*loud organ music interrupts!* :)