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From a few years back, here’s a guide I created for sharing digital skills with a social slant. Attentive: Listen up and listen well. Understand needs, fears and desires. Impartial: While you may be a fervent believer in a service or platform, it doesn’t necessarily mean it will be right for others. Social: Bow down to the network. Your fellow mentors are the key to achieving digital mentor nirvana. Friendly: C

I just wanted to post a quick thought or two prior to the Guardian online Q&A regarding social media and social enterprise. No idea how interesting it’s going to be and it’s the first time I’ve done one of these so while I tweeted about my approach earlier in the week, I can see me being more of a lurker. We’ll see how it goes. I guess from the ‘pulling no punches’ line I think

In association with the  Neighbourhood Manager for Soho Finger & Gib Heath and the Chamberlain Forum’s Resident University we’re happy to be supplying two free Understanding Social Media courses. One is a short drop-in session for those who would like to know more, and the second is an OCN Accredited 10-hour course, both are free to residents, call Colin on 0121 675 2683 if you’d like to attend.

We were invited to the resident involvement day at Soho Community Centre, Birmingham by the Resident University. We were on hand to give an insight into how social technology can be used to support community related endeavours. There’s already quite a burgeoning online presence for Soho, sites like http://sohowardbirmingham.com/ and http://www.sohofoundation.org.uk/. The Soho Finger Neighbourhood Forum team, wh

Here’s an introduction to social media I wrote for participants in Birmingham’s Resident University some time ago. It’s aimed at active citizens who are new to the social web, but you may find something useful in it.

Over the last month or so we’ve been doing a series of workshop sessions with brap — who work to promote equality — on giving some of their clients an introduction to the opportunities social media might offer their businesses, charities or social enterprises. Each session was for four hours with around six people — with two trainers. We originally thought that that would be plenty of time and that boredom woul

We’re really pleased to announce what we think is the first officially accredited course in understanding and using social media for those with no previous experience. We Share Stuff has developed the course and it’s now part of the OCN framework (WSS are an OCN Centre), as three units of 10 learning hours each. As it’s platform agnostic (it doesn’t prescribe certain sites or tools) and also d

Great news last week when We Share Stuff got the go-ahead to run some form of social media workshop / info point (whatever we come up with before the dates!) at this year’s National Digital Inclusion Conference on 27th-28th April. While the conference is aimed at the leading stakeholders and practitioners, we felt the conference fee would stop many more interested parties getting involved. Thanks to Helen Milne

Following on the NIACE digital inclusion conference, we have set up a few ‘guides’ on current Internet usage. It’s really just to see if by providing a simple ‘how-to’ get involved with the social web, we can begin to build adult education related networks, if at all! The ‘We Share…‘ series will be an ongoing thing and hopefully beneficial in understanding some of the b

Here is ‘The social web’ as defined on Wikipedia. The Social Web is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web. Such people are brought together through a variety of shared interests. There are different ways in which people want to socialize on the Web today. The first kind of socializing is typified by “people focus” websites suc