What exactly happens at a Social Media Surgery event?

[Chi-chi Ekweozor]

Photo taken at the first Manchester Social Media Surgery on Tuesday 8th December 2009

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.

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!

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!

[Josh]

Great blog Chi-chi - really useful to get to know what happens at the event. I've featured your blog on the homepage :-)

[Pete Moore]

Hi Chi-chi,

Thanks for putting on the event we found it informative and it was great to share ideas to help one another to move our businesses and non profit sites ;) forward. We will definately be coming along to another event.

Thanks again
Pete Moore
(@yourblogbuilder on twitter)

[Chi-chi Ekweozor]

Thanks so much for the excellent feedback, Pete. Will share with Adrian and Jon on Twitter. Look forward to seeing the JuniorSoccerCoach team on a Social Media Surgery panel in the near future!!

Josh: thanks for that! Looking good :)