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OK, so I'm here with Alison from Pesky People at Septembers Social Media Cafe.

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We have just been having a chat and Alison has kindly offered to

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sponsor October's Social Media Cafe event.

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Can you tell us a bit about that Alison Please.

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It would be really nice to give something back to the

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Birmingham Social Media Cafe because believe it or not

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my first social media cafe was in August 2009 and

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as a result of meeting people like Podnosh, Stef Lewandowski

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Paul Bradshaw, and even Documentally was at that one.

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And they all said, start blogging, use Wordpress

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and believe it or not I went home that night and wrote my first

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blog ever and set it up on Wordpress as Pesky People.

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And the support and advice that I got from the Social Media Cafe

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and people that have done other things like the Social Media

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Surgeries really made a massive difference, and

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it's quite nice that I'm here and it's sponsored by

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Talk About Local because they gave me a lot of support

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in the early days. So anybody who is thinking about doing something

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around blogging and social media, it's a brilliant way of meeting

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people, it's a brilliant way of getting advice, and it's a brilliant

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way of getting support and it's also a nice way of meeting

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various people, so it would be really good to give it support for

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that reason. And also I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now

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with Pesky People and blogging and campaigning about digital

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access. But also getting funding and support to pull together

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a website for Go Genie which is going to put all the access

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information in one place. And believe it or not, since that first

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time I got support from Nick Booth/Podnosh and Stef Lewandowski who is

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working with us on Go Genie. So it's a really lot of things

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that have happened in a really short period of time in 3 years

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so it's nice way of saying, in a very small way, a massive

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thank you to the Social Media Cafe and the people who are

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involved in it, and you of course as well

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Karen: Thank you very much for sharing your story

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story about the Social Media Cafe. Thanks Alison.

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Alison has kindly offered to sponsor the next

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Birmingham Social Media cafe event in October.

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Can you tell us a little bit about that please Alison?

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I've thought about it for a while, but not really had the

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resources to offer....*loud organ music interrupts!* :)