I’ve spent my last two Saturdays at events running social media surgeries. I nicked the idea from Birmingham Blogger extraordinaire Pete Ashton, who has a regular afternoon spot in a cafe, where folk can come and ask quick questions about blogging and whatnot.
I think these work particularly well at events, where hopefully people get suitably enthused by some of the sessions they attend, and have ideas that they want to put into practice, but maybe aren’t sure how. This certainly happened at both UKYouthOnline and the Low Carbon Communities Network event.
Some of the stuff I was asked about included:
- How to set up a simple website to provide information and also recieve feedback (answer – start a blog!)
- How to create inline links in blog posts
- How to insert Flickr images into blog posts
- How to create a community site which people can use for discussions as well as providing information about events and sharing knowledge and content (answer – try using Ning!)
If you are planning an event about this stuff, could you do with having a social media surgeon on board? If so, let me know!
What a cool idea…. I want to run something like this in-house, but it probably wouldn’t be til early next year.
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