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About this event

If you are a voluntary or community sector organisation, freelancer or creative who would like to know more about “digital technology” and how it can help your work or your organisation it can sometimes be difficult to know where to go for advice and support.

Yet Manchester has a wide range of digital communities – from programmers, to social media specialists to digital content producers – who meet up regularly to share good practice.

Connecting 2.0 Communities is a pilot event to give anyone in the not-for-profit sector an opportunity to meet these digital communities – many of whom are happy to provide free advice and support, and would like to work more with community groups.

What you will find out

At this free to attend “drop in” event there will be an opportunity to :-

• get a one-to-one advice session about your own particular digital needs
• find out more about Manchester’s many “user groups” and informal meet-ups
• hear short introductions about key topics such as developing a Wordpress website, and using social media.

Where and when does it take place?

The event takes place on Wednesday 17th February from 2.00-6.30pm at the MadLab (Manchester Digital Laboratory), at 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN, in the Northern Quarter (opp. Common Bar) Drop in any time after 2.00 – either stay for a short time, or stay all afternoon.

There will be food and drinks provided, and though you don’t need to book it will help us with numbers – and help identify who might be best for you to speak to – if you register at our online registration.

Who will be attending?

We’ll have more details soon but here’s a taster.

• Manchester Digital Development Agency, offering advice and support on all aspects of digital Manchester
• Madlab, find out about this new “community space” for digital working
• Speak to a Geek, get technical support from digital experts
• Social Media Cafe & Social Media Surgeries, find out more about these regular groups to help you use the social media more effectively
• Lets Go Global – &  other digital organisations, learn more about what organisations there are that can help you out.

Need to find out more?

For more information contact Adrian Slatcher:

• Email: a.slatcher@manchesterdda.com
• Phone: 0161 241 8207 or 0161 255 8111

Find out more about MadLab.

Who has organised it?

This event is funded by the Working Neighbourhoods Fund and run on behalf of Manchester City Council. It has been organised by Manchester Digital Development Agency in partnership with MadLab. Many thanks to all the digital organisations who have agreed to attend to make this event happen.

5 comments on Free Digital Advice and Support for the Voluntary and Community Sector

1. Tracey Todhunter comments:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 9:51 pm

   Hi,
   I’ll try to get along and make sure the groups I work with know about the event.

2. Adrian Slatcher says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am

   Thanks Tracey – there will be people there from 2.00-6.30 so its not necessary to be there all afternoon – drop in whenever’s convenient.

3. Social Media taster day – Aldgate, London, 5th February « kate_is_busy notes:
   February 9th, 2010 at 6:09 pm

   [...] scheduled to go and do a similar kind of thing at MDDA’s Connecting 2.0 Communities event on 17th Feb in Manchester, it will be interesting to see what kind of ‘patients’ [...]

4. stevieflow points out:
   February 16th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

   Good luck tomorrow (it’s #halfterm for me!). Would be great to try to feedback through the various groups and networks that meet, including Manchester Net Tuesday, that we just started to organise:

   http://www.meetup.com/The-Manchester-NetSquared-Meetup-Group/

5. Adrian Slatcher points out:
   February 18th, 2010 at 11:04 am

   We’ll add to the resource page when we put it up. Thanks Stephen.

   Adrian

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