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Alison Smith from Go Genie sponsor of Bham SMC Oct 11

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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!* :)
Title:
Alison Smith from Go Genie sponsor of Bham SMC Oct 11
Description:

Thank you to http://gogenie.org/ for sponsoring October 2011 http://www.birminghamsmc.com

Here Alison talks about what the social media cafe means to her, and how it's made an impact on her work through the people she has met.
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English
Duration:
02:46
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