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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

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

Here’s a resource that we’re using with a young people’s project to gain a better understanding of the employment market. It’s available to download and use for your own projects. It’s good for creating discussion about the reality of employment as well as using the web to research all the different kinds of work out there. If you find it useful or have any comments please let us know. J

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

We Share Stuff is looking for people from all manner of industries to help us with a young people’s project in Sandwell, West Midlands. As part of the project, the young people identify industries they might be interested to work in and are set a task to come up with some questions and interview somebody from that particular industry. The interview will only a be a quick fire Q&A style thing and could take

Digital Mentors are people we work with to help to train, advise and inspire our clients in the use of social technology. Our clients are usually defined as “digitally excluded”, but may also be socially excluded too — we focus a lot of our work on NEETs – young people not in employment, education or training. Digital Mentors need to either be working with social media, or using it personally on a regular basis

We’ve just heard some good news. The proposal we put forward to run an accredited training programme with Sandwell Youth Offending Team has been accepted. We start delivering our social media flavoured course from September. The course is designed to give young people a range of resources, skills and a qualification in support to them finding employment, training or going into education. Once we have the course

Michael Grimes, aka Citizensheep did a great job in setting up the live blogging stuff from the conference. As we’ve been slow in posting some form of response or update, here’s the blogging as it happened. Digital Inclusion Conference: day 1 Day 2 Digital Inclusion Conference: day 2

Yes, it’s the latest, most fashionable Internet thing going right now. Some people couldn’t live without it, others cannot see the point. If you’re yet to understand this ‘Web phenomenon, our very own Jon Bounds has done a rather good beginners guide over on his personal blog. He goes deeper into starting out with Twitter than our quick-fire ‘How To’ guides on this site.