Salford Social Media surgery is a FREE event for those in the community and voluntary sector. You can speak to experts and get advice and tips on how social media can help your organisation.

Salford Social Media surgery is an initiative of Manchester Net Squared – a volunteer-led collective of people who aim to support those making social change with easy technology.

Sign up to attend and find out more

Visit the Social Media Surgery website to find out more and sign up to attend, and keep updated by following the #slcsms hashtag on Twitter.

A social media surgery is an informal event where “patients” get to spend one-to-one time with “surgeons”, looking at how social media can benefit their community organisation.

Need Help? Want to know how Twitter can help you campaign? How can Facebook help you connect? Or maybe you just need a basic starter? Please come along and join us…

Can Help? Can you spend an hour or two with a cup of tea and some local community projects, helping explain and show some of the ways social media could work for them? Please join the surgery…

Smiths Fan? You can also visit the Smiths’ Room, and have your picture taken to add to it!

Where and when

Date: Thursday 08 December 2011
Time: 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue: Salford Lads’ & Girls’ Club, St Ignatius Walk, Salford, M5 3RX (Google Map for the venue)

Find out more

Visit the Social Media Surgery website for more information and to book a slot.

A social media surgery is an informal event where “patients” get to spend one-to-one time with “surgeons”, looking at how social media can benefit their community organisation.

Need Help? Want to know how Twitter can help you campaign? How can Facebook help you connect? Or maybe you just need a basic starter? Please come along and join us…

Can Help? Can you spend an hour or two with a cup of tea and some local community projects, helping explain and show some of the ways social media could work for them? Please join the surgery… (Alan Holding from MDDA will be going along as one of the surgeons.)

Smiths Fan? You can also visit the Smiths’ Room, and have your picture taken to add to it!

Where and when

Date: Thursday 10 November 2011
Time: 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue: Salford Lads’ & Girls’ Club, St Ignatius Walk, Salford, M5 3RX (Google Map for the venue)

Find out more

Visit the Social Media Surgery website for more information and to book a slot.

With so much public money available within the region, what are the options for setting up and / or growing high growth businesses?

Techcelerate are running an event in Manchester to discuss this.

Speakers

Please note more speakers and panelists to be announced.

Michael Taylor of NW Insider, who will chair the panel discussions.

Andy Leach, CEO of North West Business Finance, the authority responsible for overall management of the funds just confirmed participation.

Jon Bradford from Difference Engine will be at the event to showcase some of the companies he invested from the North West early this year and discuss the application process for the next batch.

Where and when

• Date: Tuesday, 29 June 2010
• Time: 6pm to 9pm
• Venue: Manchester offices of Horwath Clarke Whitehill

Register to attend and more information

If you are interested in attending, please register at http://www.techcelerate.org/jun10-2 (select FEES tab at bottom of event page).

If you’re making decisions about how the internet can enhance your non profit organisation’s capability, we’d like to invite you to a free panel session of North West IT professionals who will be running open ‘micro consultancy’ sessions with your peers from the North West’s voluntary sector.

The first prototype event, ‘Speak to a Geek’, will be held on the afternoon of Friday 27 February 2009 at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)’s meeting space in Portland Street, Manchester. Get directions to MDDA’s offices.

For two hours, the expert panel will host 20 minute ‘micro-consultancies’; candid insights and expertise in response to audience questions and challenges.

It’s your opportunity to get useful answers and insight to your questions and current internet/technology from a panel of professional tech industry experts.

The panel have years of commercial and voluntary sector experience in areas that are highly useful to a voluntary sector organisation:

• Strategies for using Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media
• How to build effective online communities
• Using open source software for (non) profit
• How to ‘do’ internet marketing properly

If you would like to attend this prototype session (and hopefully submit your own question/issue to our panel), please visit this page to send an email to the organiser.

More information

Check out the Speak to a Geek website.

The workshops are led by Kate Feld, director of the Manchester Blog Awards and writer of The Manchizzle blog, and Chris Horkan, a web designer and journalist who writes the Mancubist blog.

All sessions are free, but numbers are limited so please book in advance.

Blog Lab

Stuck on posting images in Blogger? Need someone to walk you through switching platforms? Want to pimp your blog up with all the latest cool widgets, or just get some feedback on your new site?

Two experienced bloggers will be on hand to help solve your practical blogging problems in these open “surgery” sessions. Some computers available, or bring your own and use our wireless. Drop in whenever you like during the session, but please let us know you’re coming.

• Date: Saturday 8 November 2008
• Time: 1pm to 3pm
• Venue: MDDA – Manchester Digital Development Agency, 117 -119 Portland Street, Manchester M1 6ED. Get directions to MDDA’s offices.

Blogging for Beginners

So you think you’d like to create a blog, but you’re not really sure where to start? In this workshop we’ll take you through the basics, and by the end of it you’ll have your own blog.

First beginners workshop:

• Date: Saturday 22 November 2008
• Time: 10am to 12 noon
• Venue: Gorton Library, Garratt Way, Gorton, Manchester M18 8HE. More information about Gorton Library.

Second beginners workshop:

• Date: Saturday 29 November 2008
• Time: 10am to 12 noon
• Venue: Crumpsall Library, Abraham Moss Centre, Crescent Road, Crumpsall, Manchester M8 5UF. More information about Crumpsall Library.

Important – How to book

All sessions are free, but numbers are limited so please book in advance.

Please do NOT ring MDDA or the libraries to book your place.

To book a place on one of the workshops or the blog lab please ring 0161 236 5555 or email the Manchester Literature Festival office.

Please let us know when booking if you have any accessibility needs.

Within your business or your practice, you’ve probably created a wealth of in-house ideas, designs, music, writing, images – in short, ‘intellectual property’ – which can make you extra money, as long as you give it the proper legal protection. Own-it will show you how.

Own-it North provides:

• articles, podcasts and factsheets available for download
• free legal advice and a detailed FAQ section
• events to enable creative people to make the most of their ideas
• a directory of useful resources and contacts across creative sectors

More information

Visit the Own-it North website to find out how they can help your business.