It was great to get the Derbyshire Social Media Cafe back underway last night with a meet in the cafe bar at Quad in Derby.
A small group but big conversations about digital in Derby – and plans for getting SMCDerby back on the rails fully in 2012.
Thanks to Nigel for organising and Quad for letting us perch in the cafe.
Here’s a list of Twitter handles for the people who came:
And here’s a flavour of where the converastion went:
- QR Codes – especially about how Derby Museum and others are using them. Could have done with Nick Moyes or Andy Mabbett to explain more really!
- BitCoin
- Digital activism
- Building and managing networks and flows of information
- Freedom of Information requests via social media
- social media surgeries
- the future of the Derby and Derbyshire Social Media Cafe!
On this last topic the decision was made that the next meet will be in January (date, time and venue to be confirmed) and then every other month from there. I’ll be digging out the results of the survey we ran to see if we can get a handle on format etc but any ideas / requests / offers of sponsorship do leave a comment, tweet me or Nigel or email us!
We’re also hopeful a social media surgery will run in Derby soon – if you’re interested in being a surgeon or a patient leave us a comment and we’ll make sure you get the details.
Until next time – see you online 
There was also some conversations around ‘real world’ signposting for a health related project that @aidenmkelly wants to start.
One of the great things about these get togethers is the sharing of local knowledge and skills that happens
I agree – it’s one of the best things for me being able to find cross-overs, share knowledge and throw around ideas with like-minded and passionate people!
Be interested to hear more about the project – I must have missed that conversation chatting to @crocstar and @unclelauren about studying / teaching digital comms!
So sorry not to have attended. I completely missed any and all publicity about this. Would have loved to have come down to chat about QR codes and stuff.
Maybe next time.
You can always catch me jabbering away on this video about it: http://ow.ly/7g2r1
Nick.