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Will Perrin from Talk About Local speaking at Birmingham SMC.wmv

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    We help people in deprived or isolated communities
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    around the country to find a voice online for their community,
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    so that they can talk about what they are doing to the wider world
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    and not be smothered by local political interests or local newspapers.
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    We help people find a powerful find a powerful
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    respected voice online. Now, we set up
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    in Birmingham basically because of things like this
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    Social Media Cafe. When I was going round the country a
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    few years ago, raising money to try and start a business,
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    it was coming to Birmingham and seeing this fantastic
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    underground social media scene that goes on here in Birmingham,
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    whether it's huge activity that goes on on flickr, or on facebook
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    or in twitter, or in the amazing hyper local blogs here in Birmingham.
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    And so that why we raised money here and decided to set up here.
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    Birmingham Social Media Cafe Birmingham, you are in Wired,
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    in the recent edition of Wired. I don't know if anyone has
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    spotted that. It has a big league table of social media meet ups
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    around the country and Birmingham is sitting in there slightly
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    above the middle for the size of the SMC. I've been working
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    in Birmingham for about 2 and half years, it's been a fantastic
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    experience. I've worked with quite a few people here in the room.
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    You are very lucky to have some excellent academic
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    institutions here that are not just leading in the UK, but leading
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    in the world in issues such as date and local journalism.,
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    around BCU in particular. In fact Paul has brought some of
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    his students and we have academics like Dave,
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    not really an academic though Dave. Dave: "Blogger first"
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    Yes, blogger first, academic second. And we always happy
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    to talk to anyone as a business. Nicky Getgood is here. Karen who
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    works with me. We have the remarkable Mike Rawlins. Give us
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    a wave Mike. I know you want to. Michael, it turns out is an
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    artists model! If you see his latest blog post, he's an artists model
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    from his early work on the internet. You'd never know just looking at him.
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    He was younger and more beautiful I think then.
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    Mike: "Just think yourselves lucky it wasn't Lucian Freud"
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    We are always happy to talk to anyone who wants to
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    to get into the hyperlocal scene, who wants to find out about
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    self publishing on the internet. We try and run as a public
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    service business, which is that we raise money
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    from big corporate clients and any surplus we make goes
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    back into helping people in communities or just helping
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    the scene as a whole. We are very interested over the next
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    few months in working with people in Birmingham on
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    new forms of local media ownership, very interested in seeing
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    if we can create some sort of media co-operative here in
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    Birmingham genuinely owned by the people, broadly based that
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    has nothing whatever to do with traditional local television or
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    the radio, but it comes from the web but is owned by the
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    people that create the content. And that's about it really
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    I'm around if you want to talk to me about anything at all.
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    Or any of the team. And just get on and enjoy the coffee.
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    And thank you to Karen by the way for organising this
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    and persevering.
Title:
Will Perrin from Talk About Local speaking at Birmingham SMC.wmv
Description:

Thank you to http://www.talkaboutlocal.org for sponsoring September's http://www.birminghamsmc.com

"talk about local set up in Birmingham because the city has a remarkable diverse, friendly and above all civic minded local web media. Birmingham Social Media Cafe and the networks around it are really important to the local web scene and talk about local is delighted to help support the cafe this month. " - @willperrin
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