What exactly happens at a Manchester Social Media Surgery event?
Cross-posted from the Social Media Cafe Manchester Ning. With some additions in italics below.
Just sharing about the January Social Media Surgery event which took place at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business Incubator Innospace on Chorlton Street on Tuesday 12th January 2010 from 2pm to 4pm. You can read about the first event on 8th December 2009 here.
Social Media Surgery events are informal, free-to-attend, afternoon business networking events based around a panel made up of social media practitioners and agencies discussing and dissecting social media project issues presented by the attending crowd.
I started running these in Manchester in December after proposing such a series of events to the Social Media Cafe Manchester community. You can view my slides from the Social Media Cafe Manchester introduction here. Highlighted are the community’s views about the need for and purpose of the social media surgery events.
The event was pretty well attended considering it was taking place on the first Tuesday of the year (most businesses were closed for an extra week after the Christmas break due to arctic weather conditions).
There were 7 attendees in total (almost everyone that signed up to attend, did) and the Social Media Surgeons on duty were:
Jon Clements (@jonclements on Twitter) of PR firm Staniforth
Adrian Slatcher (@adrianslatcher on Twitter) from Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)
Chi-chi Ekweozor (@realfreshtv) of Internet TV and social media consultancy Real Fresh TV
Kicking off with a social media case study by Lisa Tse of popular Manchester Chinese restaurant Sweet Mandarin, delivered by email because she couldn’t make it (sadly), and featuring group consultations and advice to 4 very different businesses/organisations keen to make more use of social media in a business context, the 2 hours flew by very quickly.
Read all about it on the event live blog.
UPDATE: There are some really interesting comments from attendees after both the live blog and the event summary blog post.
If you’d like to attend the next Social Media Surgery on Tuesday 9th February 2010, same time, same venue, please sign up here.
You can also enter a ‘Consultation request’ for our surgeons. Please follow these instructions.
Hopefully see you there!
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