WordPress Help Workshop before MWUG

[Ben Gibbs]

Hi Mwuggers,

I was the one who suggested the idea of a WordPress workshop/help service from 5-7pm each month before MWUG. I work from FlyThe.Coop, a co-working and collaboration space in the 1st floor of the MadLab building: www.flythe.coop.

So I'm around from the end of my work day, 5pm, to the start of MWUG, 7pm, and I thought that it would be a good time to offer free help and advice to charities/community groups/individuals who use WordPress to come and get free help. It's straight after work and we're in the City Centre so it could potentially be quite easy for people to pop along to ask for help. And of course they could stay for MWUG if they wanted.

My only concern is about how this help workshop/advice surgery will be advertised to such charities and community groups and individuals who use WordPress. I suppose it could be advertised on some of the big Manchester focussed blogs, but I wouldn't know how to find out which 3rd sector organisations use WordPress, or would like to. 

Any ideas?

Ben

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[Adrian Slatcher]

Hi
a good idea - I could certainly help with advertising this etc. as its
part of the work we're doing with MDDA anyway.
Let me get back to you all as I'm trying to coordinate this with a
number of other activities at present - also there is a linkage with
the Netsquared group (community based IT people) which is also meeting
at Madlab.

Best
Adrian

[ProDevStudio]

Hi All,

I am work with few charitable organisations, some are using wordpress
and others are not.

Like Ben I am also interested in supporting local charities and
organisations be it wordpress or other general IT issues including
email and hosting services. Unlike others I don't work in city centre
but I am happy with the short commute to MadLab.

Kind Regards,
Azizur Rahman

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[guy lancaster]

  Hi

 

re:Finding Wordpress/voluntary sector  folk

 

I would do it via

 

GMCVO www.gmcvo.org.uk

VAM www.vamanchester.org.uk

Manchester Alliance for Community Care (MACC), www.macc.org.uk

Community Network for Manchester (CN4M). www.cn4m.net

Networking newsletter http://www.networkingnewsletter.org.uk/

Web Angels http://www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/idea/webangels/ 

MDDA http://www.manchesterdda.com/

 
 

 

[guy lancaster]

Hi

 

http://www.onecentralplace.org

 

and this one

[Adrian Slatcher]

Hi
I've spoken to GMCVO already - and will be speaking with VAM - so will get back to everyone when I've got something specific to say - but many thanks for people's willingness to help.

Best
Adrian

[Adrian Slatcher]

Hi everyone
with the help of our friends at the MADLAB I'm happy to announce we're
going to be putting on a "drop in" afternoon at MADLAB for the
voluntary and community sector.

About this event...

Wednesday 17th February
at the MADLAB
2.00-6.30

If anyone is able to spare an hour or two or an afternoon to help out
voluntary and community organisations "dropping in" then please email
a.sla...@manchesterdda.com or da...@madlab.org.uk with the
following... food and drinks will be provided during the afternoon for
free

NAME
ORGANISATION YOU REPRESENT (E.G. MWUG)
WHEN YOU'RE AVAILABLE.... (an hour, two hours, all afternoon)
WHAT YOU'LL PROVIDE ON THE DAY...e.g. general advice, one to one
session, info about wordpress/MWUG
A SHORT BIOG OF YOURSELF (to be distributed on the day)
ANY REQUIREMENTS (table, power, wifi etc)
EMAIL ADDRESS
MOBILE NUMBER

Any questions ring Adrian Slatcher 0161 241 8207 (work) or mobile
07941 521 905 - or I'm at the social media cafe tomorrow night.

[Adrian Slatcher]

Hi Ben
as you were the person who came up with this idea first I just wanted to drop you an email as well to say I hope you might manage to make the 17th Feb "drop in" for the voluntary sector - I'm happy for us to collect names/contacts for any groups who would like to get some advice before a MWUG meeting if that would be helpful - and obviously be great if you were able to spend an hour or two on the day.

Best
Adrian

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Ben Gibbs <bobo...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[Ben Gibbs]

Hi,

Here are my details for the afternoon:

NAME: Ben Gibbs
ORGANISATION YOU REPRESENT: MWUG
WHEN YOU'RE AVAILABLE: 4:00-6:30pm
WHAT YOU'LL PROVIDE ON THE DAY: general advice, one to one session, info about wordpress
A SHORT BIOG OF YOURSELF: Ben has worked with WordPress for over 5 years and creates new websites using WordPress at least a couple of times each month!
ANY REQUIREMENTS: table, power, wifi
EMAIL ADDRESS: b...@bobop.co.uk
MOBILE NUMBER: 07811197374

Looking forward to this. Will it be a regular thing?

Ben

[Ben Gibbs]

Oops, just checked, so please change my biog to:

Ben has worked with WordPress for over 3 years and creates new websites using WordPress at least a couple of times each month!

Ta, Ben

[Adrian Slatcher]

Hey Ben
that's great - we're running this one as a trial and we'll then maybe look to do 2 or 3 a year, definitely Sept/Oct and Feb/Mar, but possibly late May/early June as well.

Many thanks
Adrian

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ben Gibbs <bobo...@googlemail.com> wrote: