I went over to Walsall in the West Midlands last night to attend the Black Country Social Media Cafe. Part of this was to see how they do it over there to feed into the Derbyshire Social Media Cafe but also it’s fantastic to meet up to talk about online with people (yes, enjoy the [...]

I read an interesting post by Carl Haggerty recently called ‘Why do you participate with social media?’ which he’d written after seeing a presentation on the subject.
I have, on occasion, asked myself the same question – why do I participate? Broadly (and a bit lazily) I usually summarise with a) It’s useful and interesting b) [...]

I wrote a while back about a dream I had to set up a Social Media Cafe for Derby and Derbyshire and now that dream has become a reality!
The first Derby/shire Social Media Cafe took place at QUAD in Derby on 1 October. It was a very informal gathering but I was thrilled that around [...]