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Next Event: Friday 28th October at Birmingham Town Hall

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The next event will be on Friday 28th October 10am-midday

Venue: Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ (map)

SPONSORED BY: Go Genie

 Here Alison Smith from Go Genie talks about why she wants to sponsor the October event, and how as a result of meeting attendees and recieving encouragement how she started her first blog, and never looked back!

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Would you or your company like to sponsor an event? Sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe simply involves covering the cost of the coffees (up to £200).

Your name will be included in our communications for that month (email newsletter, twitter, facebook, blog and sponsorship page) and you will have a short slot at the event to introduce yourself and your organisation. To sponsor an event please email: birminghamsmc@gmail.com You can find a list of our previous sponsors here.

Have you been before? If you’ve come along before then you’ll know that you’ll find a group of interesting people working in lots of different areas, all using (or looking to use) social media in what they do, whether that’s for promoting, collaborating or creating things online.

Are you new? If you’ve not come along before then you might like to know that it’s a very informal, friendly and chatty gathering – we try to make new folks feel as welcome as possible. Just come along, grab a drink and join the rest of us for a chat. If you don’t know anybody there, just come and say Hi to event organiser Karen Strunks who will introduce you to other attendees :)

You can also find the Birmingham Social Media Cafe on Twitter, and Facebook and we have a NEW flickr group. Please feel free to upload any social media cafe photos and use the tag of bsmc. If you are a twitter user, the hash tag is #bsmc. Spread the word and tell your friends! :)

Here is a Storify round up of tweets, attendees, photos and video from our September event. Thank you to talk about local  for sponsoring the event. Thank you to Bake Birmingham for the wonderful birthday cakes.

View “Birmingham Social Media Cafe September 2011″ on Storify

Next Event: Friday 30th September at Birmingham Town Hall

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The next event will be on Friday 30th September 10am-midday

Venue: Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ (map)

SPONSORED BY: Talk About Local

“talk about local set up in Birmingham because the city has a remarkable diverse, friendly and above all civic minded local web media. Birmingham Social Media Cafe and the networks around it are really important to the local web scene and talk about local is delighted to help support the cafe this month. ” – Will Perrin

It’s our 3rd Birthday next month! Come along and join the celebrations –

there might even be CAKE! ;) Update: There WILL be cake courtesy of  BAKE!

Photo by Debbie Chialtas on Flickr

Would you or your company like to sponsor an event? Sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe simply involves covering the cost of the coffees (approx. £200).

Your name will be included in our communications for that month (email newsletter, twitter, facebook, blog and sponsorship page) and you will have a short slot at the event to introduce yourself and your organisation. To sponsor an event please email: birminghamsmc@gmail.com You can find a list of our previous sponsors here.

Have you been before? If you’ve come along before then you’ll know that you’ll find a group of interesting people working in lots of different areas, all using (or looking to use) social media in what they do, whether that’s for promoting, collaborating or creating things online.

Are you new? If you’ve not come along before then you might like to know that it’s a very informal, friendly and chatty gathering – we try to make new folks feel as welcome as possible. Just come along, grab a drink and join the rest of us for a chat. If you don’t know anybody there, just come and say Hi to event organiser Karen Strunks who will introduce you to other attendees :)

You can also find the Birmingham Social Media Cafe on Twitter, and Facebook and we have a NEW flickr group. Please feel free to upload any social media cafe photos and use the tag of bsmc. If you are a twitter user, the hash tag is #bsmc. Spread the word and tell your friends! :)

Here is a round up of tweets, attendees, photos and video from our August event. Thank you to Fierce Earth for sponsoring the event. Thank you to Venue Birmingham for collating the following attendee list.

View “Birmingham Social Media Cafe August 2011″ on Storify

 

 

Next Event: Friday 26th August at Birmingham Town Hall

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The next event will be on Friday 26th August 10am-midday

Venue: Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ (map)

This event is sponsored by

Fierce Earth and Metapod Connect

Fierce Earth are happy to be sponsoring this months BSMC and to introduce Metapod Connect 

Metapod Connect is a four-day course that will look at how to build strong, resilient and effective networks. Specifically it will break down, in manageable and achievable steps, how to do that both online (using social media and other internet tools) and “in the real world”. The course has been devised by Helga “network Nancy” Henry and Pete Ashton - artist, award winning blogger and happy resident of cyberspace. 

Please speak with Dean on Friday if you have any questions or look here for the factual “booking details”, and some of the thinking behind the course and the material that it is going to cover is here.

Would you or your company like to sponsor an event? Sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe simply involves covering the cost of the coffees (approx. £200).

Your name will be included in our communications for that month (email newsletter, twitter, facebook, blog and sponsorship page) and you will have a short slot at the event to introduce yourself and your organisation. To sponsor an event please email: birminghamsmc@gmail.com You can find a list of our previous sponsors here.

Have you been before? If you’ve come along before then you’ll know that you’ll find a group of interesting people working in lots of different areas, all using (or looking to use) social media in what they do, whether that’s for promoting, collaborating or creating things online.

Are you new? If you’ve not come along before then you might like to know that it’s a very informal, friendly and chatty gathering – we try to make new folks feel as welcome as possible. Just come along, grab a drink and join the rest of us for a chat. If you don’t know anybody there, just come and say Hi to event organiser Karen Strunks who will introduce you to other attendees :)

You can also find the Birmingham Social Media Cafe on Twitter, and Facebook and we have a NEW flickr group. Please feel free to upload any social media cafe photos and use the tag of bsmc. If you are a twitter user, the hash tag is #bsmc. Spread the word and tell your friends! :)

Here is a round up tweet’s and photos from of July’s Social Media Cafe.

View “Birmingham Social Media Cafe July 11 at the Town Hall ” on Storify

Next event: Friday 29th July at Birmingham Town Hall

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The next event  will be on Friday 29th July 10am-midday

Venue: Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ (map)

Sponsorship Opportunity: Sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe simply involves covering the cost of the coffees (approx. £200).

Your name will be included in our communications for that month (email newsletter, twitter, facebook, upcoming, blog and sponsorship page) and you will have a short slot at the event to introduce yourself and your organisation. To sponsor an event please email: birminghamsmc@gmail.com You can find a list of our previous sponsors here.

Have you been before? If you’ve come along before then you’ll know that you’ll find a group of interesting people working in lots of different areas, all using (or looking to use) social media in what they do, whether that’s for promoting, collaborating or creating things online.

Are you new? If you’ve not come along before then you might like to know that it’s a very informal, friendly and chatty gathering – we try to make new folks feel as welcome as possible. Just come along, grab a drink and join the rest of us for a chat. If you don’t know anybody there, just come and say Hi to event organiser Karen Strunks who will introduce you to other attendees :)

You can also find the Birmingham Social Media Cafe on Twitter, and Facebook. If you are a twitter user, the hash tag is #bsmc. Spread the word and tell your friends!

Here is a round up of June’s Social Media Cafe. Photography by Adam Yousef

[View the story "Birmingham Social Media Cafe At Cafe Blend 24th June 2011" on Storify]