Birmingham Social Media Cafe

The next event will be on Friday 24th Feb 10am-midday

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

SPONSORED BY: Threeten10

Threeten10 is a specialist social communications agency, utilising 8 years digital marketing experience to develop highly effective social media campaigns. Our strategies provide tangible results, working to clear objectives, we are able to develop increased brand exposure, higher average order values and efficient customer support channels for any client.

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 where you can connect with over 500 BSMC members. We also 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! :)

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 or tweet @birminghamsmc or @karenstrunks

The next event will be on Friday 27th January 10am-midday

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

SPONSORED BY: meegloo

Meegloo lets people share words and pictures from the events they’re attending. It’s as easy as Twitter but without the need to remember a hashtag. We’re sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe as this is just the kind of meetup Meegloo was made for. You can download the free app to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch from the App Store. Fire it up when you get to the Birmingham Social Media cafe to start posting!

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 where you can connect with over 500 BSMC members. We also 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! :)

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 or tweet @birminghamsmc or @karenstrunks  

Check out these photos by Punk Zebra from our last event of 2011 in November.

And these photographs by Dan Johnson

The next event will be on Friday 25th November 10am-midday

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

Would you or your company like to sponsor November’s Social Media Cafe 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, and it’s FREE to attend! 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 the Storify round up from October’s event!

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!

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.

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!

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.

• @appolonia
• @heroo327
• @karenstrunks – the organiser of the Birmingham Social Media Cafe.
• @johardybrum
• @timmy666
• @deanthepainter – the sponsor of todays event – from Fierce Earth.
• @fierceearth
• @rickiewrites
• @lillytea
• @470media
• @pigsonthewing
• @gavinjob
• @davedev
• @jonfoster
• @ascentwriting
• @dandalley
• @kathpreston1
• @iedesign
• @qubesocial
• @trilbytweet
• @siwhitehouse
• @brumguvnor
• @lyzzybee
• @franceybegum
• @jaymhooper
• @pierrepolarbear
• @videotoviraluk
• @pechakucha_bham
• @lauracreaven

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.

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

The next event is on Friday 24th June 10am-midday
Venue: Cafe Blend, Orion Building, Navigation Street, Birmingham B5 4AA (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, Upcoming and Facebook. If you are a twitter user, the hash tag is #bsmc. Spread the word and tell your friends!

Take a look at the photos from last month’s BSMC taken by Adam Yosef.

See you there. Don’t forget your business cards! :)

The sun was shining for Birmingham Social Media Cafe today. We were back at Town Hall for the second time and, as usual, an interesting mix of people had turned up for a chat and a coffee.

If you couldn’t make it down, below is a round-up of this morning’s meet-up. The next event will be wedged between Easter and the royal wedding, and we’ll update you on this blog, our Facebook group and our Twitter stream, so join those for further details.

Thanks to everyone who came down to Birmingham Social Media Cafe at Town Hall foyer.

We had a great turn out with lots of new people and there were some interesting discussions (not to mention sweets) around.

Details for the next event and venue will be online shortly, so keep an eye on this blog, our Facebook Group, our Twitter page, and/or our mailing list (sign up in the sidebar of this website).

In the meantime, here’s a round-up of some of the tweets and photos from the February event: