by Tim
Sarah Lay, Paul Cole and I took part in LocalGovCamp held in Birmingham a few weeks back. It was a great opportunity to meet with other people from all sectors to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented for our organisations in using social media.
As a direct result of attending that event, Sarah, Paul and I discussed the possibility of creating something similar in the East Midlands; Derby and Derbyshire in particular. This site and the Social Media Café event are the first fruits of those ideas.
Sarah initially set up a Facebook group and a site on Ning. Unfortunately, some people in the public sector (and other sectors too) do not have access to social media sites from work. We decided to create our own website in an attempt to overcome this.
I hope you’ll be able to join us at Derby Quad on 1st October. In the meantime, why not leave us a comment?
Great work in getting this off the ground guys. I won’t be able to make 1 Oct, but I hope the event goes really well.
Will make sure I promote this over on my blog, and as many other places as I can. It probably is worth persevering with the Facebook stuff, as non-local gov folk might well pick it up from there.
Souds very exciting. I am definetley going to be joining you at some point during the afternoon. Ruth
It’s in my diary and I look forward to learning lots at the event. Dragging myself into the 21st century …
Thanks everyone!
Sorry you can’t make it this time Dave but thanks for the support
Look forward to meeting you Ruth and Sian and having a chat at the first cafe!