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!* :)