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The next Birmingham Social Media Cafe will be on 24 April at the Coffee Lounge on Navigation Street.
The marvellous Rhubarb Radio will be getting the coffees in.
All are welcome, whether you’ve come along to the past seven meet-ups or have never made it down before.
As before, there are likely to be a few people bringing [...]
This is well worth a read - Lloyd Davis, founder of the Tuttle Club (that’s London’s Friday morning get-together), has published an Annual Report that explains:
How it started
Some of the thinking behind it
What’s happened in the past year
Where things might go next
Download the Tuttle Club Annual Report.
A common complaint is that there’s no easy place to find all the ‘digital’ events that are going on in the region.
To go some way to remedying that I’ve dug out a selection - some regular, some not - and listed them on the Other Events page.
There are plenty more to add to that list [...]
A few weeks ago I was in London on a Friday and happened to pop into the ICA’s cafe in the afternoon. This is where the Tuttle Club, London’s Social Media Cafe, meets every Friday morning to do the sort of things we do at BSMC. Three hours after it had officially ended there were [...]
Where? Coffee Lounge on Navigation Street.
When? Tomorrow, 10am to midday.
What? A chance for a whole bunch of people who are interested in social media to get together and discuss, plan, scheme and share.
You won’t even have to pay for your coffee/beverage of choice - Screen WM have offered to provide some support to the BSMC [...]
Another fine turnout at the Birmingham Social Media Cafe last Friday. Thanks to everyone who came down and packed the place out again. Thanks also to Ward Lovett for sponsoring.
As before, we collected up name stickers and have photographed them for your note-adding convenience (click the pic to do that):
If you were there but your [...]
“Wash behind your ears”
“If you tread on dandelions you’ll need to go to the toilet”
What are the phrases that have stuck with you in your life? Do you have any?
It might be worth having a think because Mario Cacciottolo, a BBC journalist and founder of the really interesting project “Someone Once Told Me” will be [...]
Birmingham Social Media Cafe: January 09, posted with vodpod, video by Chris Unitt
That’s a whole lot of networking!
Thanks to everyone for another record turnout to this month’s Social Media Cafe Meet. As many people have said, we may need to look at finding a bigger venue or increase the frequency of meet-ups to fortnightly. [...]
No, not the above neo-post-punk quartet (maybe next time?).
This will be an entirely different but just as pretty quartet of regional newspaper editors from the Trinity Mirror publishing group.
As part of their training here in Birmingham with Paul Bradshaw, they will be popping down to the BSMC this Friday (Jan 30) to find out [...]
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