Web 2.0 Surgery’s Build A Blog Challenge: 11th August and 8th September

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Want to create a blog, simple website or online space for your organisation?
Building a blog or website and publishing your information online is easy and free.
Come to Web 2.0 Surgery and we’ll help you to set up your first blog or website.
Drop in for free help from web experts.

Dates:

Wednesday 11^th August 5-7pm
Wednesday 8^th September 5-7pm

Venue:

Mezze Lounge, Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL

Download a build a blog challenge poster

What is Web 2.0 Surgery?

Web 2.0 Surgery is a free drop-in event where independent businesses, freelance professionals and community groups can get advice from web experts on developing their website or ways to use free social media networks to grow their organisation. The project has helped a start-up business to sell online, a charity to use social networks for free promotion and a performance group to use live web video streaming to engage with audiences.

Second Wednesday web meet-up

After Web 2.0 Surgery, stay around for Second Wednesday, the monthly gathering of Nottingham’s web development community where you can find out more about web development and marketing and meet professionals.

August 11th – Copywriting talk, 7pm, Broadway Cinema

August’s talk is by Camilla Zajac from Green Light Copywriting.  Based on her experience of creating unique content for blogs, websites and other communications, Camilla will share five things you can do to turn copy from information into inspiration.

As Director of Green Light Copywriting, Camilla Zajac has created content for organisations as varied as E.ON, Barnardo’s and the NHS – and written for growing businesses on everything from luxury cakes to law!

Copywriting isn’t just about spelling and grammar. It isn’t purely about branding. Or communications. Or marketing. It’s about all these aspects and more.

Done right, copywriting can help companies sell themselves more powerfully, build their brand and stand out in a crowded marketplace.

Next Web 2.0 Surgery and Second Wednesday event: Wednes 14th July

To build a stronger marketplace for Nottingham’s digital sector, for buyers and professionals, we’ve decided to link together Web 2.0 Surgery with the long-standing Second Wednesday event for Nottingham’s web professionals.

We’ve also got a brand new venue for the summer: Broadway Media Centre (Mezze Lounge, 1st Floor).
After the event you can take advantage of their Orange Wednesday 2-for-1 film offers and great film and food spcial offers too.

Web 2.0 Surgery is a free drop-in event where independent businesses, freelance professionals and community groups can get advice from web experts on developing their website or ways to use free social media networks to grow their organisation. The project has helped a start-up business to sell online, a charity to use social networks for free promotion and a performance group to use live web video streaming to engage with audiences.

Second Wednesday is a long-running network for Nottingham’s web and digital professionals which regularly attracts web developers, online marketing experts and designers for an informal talk followed by drinks and networking. Previous speakers have shared their expertise on search engine optimisation, digital strategy and personal branding.

The event takes place:

Wednesday 14th July
Mezze Lounge (1st floor), Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL See Map

Web 2.0 Surgery runs from 5-7pm. Drop-in at any time to speak to an expert.

Second Wednesday’s talk and discussion starts at 7pm, followed by drinks on Broadway’s terrace.
Both events are free to attend, no booking required.

This month’s guest speaker talk is:

Future events will take place on the second Wednesday of each month at Broadway cinema:

Wednesday 11^th August, 5-9pm (5-7pm for Web 2.0 Surgery)
Wednesday 8^th September 5-9pm (5-7pm for Web 2.0 Surgery)

Come together: Joint Web 2.0 Surgery and Second Wednesday event, 9th June, 5-9pm at Broadway

New venue: Broadway Media Centre, Broad Street, Nottingham

Hello, this is Susi O’Neill, I’ve now taken over managing the Web 2.0 Surgery from Martin Wright.  A big thanks to Martin for his tremendous work founding and managing the surgeries over the last year.

To build a stronger marketplace for Nottingham’s digital sector, for buyers and professionals, we’ve decided to link together Web 2.0 Surgery with the long-standing Second Wednesday event for Nottingham’s web professionals.

We’ve also got a brand new venue for the summer: Broadway Media Centre (Mezze Lounge, 1st Floor).
After the event you can take advantage of their Orange Wednesday 2-for-1 film offers and great film and food spcial offers too.

Web 2.0 Surgery, which in June celebrates its first birthday, is a free drop-in event where independent businesses, freelance professionals and community groups can get advice from web experts on developing their website or ways to use free social media networks to grow their organisation.  The project has helped a start-up business to sell online, a charity to use social networks for free promotion and a performance group to use live web video streaming to engage with audiences.

Second Wednesday is a long-running network for Nottingham’s web and digital professionals which regularly attracts web developers, online marketing experts and designers for an informal talk followed by drinks and networking.  Previous speakers have shared their expertise on search engine optimisation, digital strategy and personal branding.

The two groups are now coming together as a forum to connect the city’s digital sector and to enable businesses seeking web services to meet web and marketing professionals in an informal setting.
Second Wednesday organiser Nick Heyward, from FCS Websites, said: “Linking together Second Wednesday and Web 2.0 Surgery is a great opportunity to develop Nottingham’s marketplace for web services and to help businesses and community group benefit from the £40 billion online spend in the global digital economy.”

The first joint event takes place:

Wednesday 9^th June
Mezze Lounge, Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL  See Map

Web 2.0 Surgery runs from 5-7pm.  Drop-in at any time to speak to an expert.

Second Wednesday’s talk and discussion starts at 7pm, followed by drinks on Broadway’s terrace.
Both events are free to attend, no booking required.

This month’s speaker is Derek O’Brien on “Getting Down & Dirty with HTML5 and CSS3″, with a presentation on the latest trends in coding.

Future events will take place on the second Wednesday of each month at Broadway cinema:

Wednesday 14^th July, 5-9pm
Wednesday 11^th August, 5-9pm
Wednesday 8^th September 5-9pm

Time For A Change

Change

The last 11 Web 2.0 Surgery events have been organised by Martin Wright. Due to other time commitments he no longer has time to organise the event.

Idea

Web 2.0 Surgery was created to be:

“an informal event where you can get answers on internet related topics from a group of experts. This event is aimed at small and medium sized companies and organisations, as well as individuals, who use the Internet to operate their business but have questions on how to effectively use the wealth of Web 2.0 tools and services available.”

New Start

We would like the event to flourish in the hands of others and are actively seeking someone to take the event to the next level. If you are interested, please contact us at: contact [at] web20surgery.com

Thanks to all the experts and attendees who have taken part so far.

Web 2.0 Surgery – Ecommerce Focus

This months Web 2.0 Surgery event focuses on Ecommerce.

• Do you have a struggling ecommerce site?
• Do you have ecommerce aspirations?
• Do you have a successful ecommerce story that you’d like to share?

Discuss your questions with ecommerce experts:

• Stu Owens – ecommerce and online marketing
• Darren Ramowski – freemium and subscription models
• Peter O’Brien – ecommerce and online marketing
• Jamie Huskisson – Web development – Magento, WordPress, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
• Nick Heyward – Web design, ecommerce and green hosting
• Nick Barker – Website monitoring

Join us from 5.30pm on Thursday 15th April 2010 at Antenna, Beck St, Nottingham NG1 1EQ (map)

For more details you can sign up to the newsletter, follow @web20surgery on Twitter or sign up to the Web 2.0 Surgery LinkedIn group.

Next Events

The next two Web 2.0 Surgery events will have a theme.

Charity Focus – Thursday 18th March 2010

Do you work for charitable organisation? Do you have an outdated website? Are you able to update your website content without contacting your website designer? Are you reaching out to your supports with Twitter and Facebook? Could reduce your expenses by usingWeb 2.0 services?

Ecommerce Focus – Thursday 15th April 2010

Do you have an Ebay site which you are out-growing? Are you struggling to set up an online store? Is your ecommerce site not producing the sales you think it should?

Discuss your ecommerce site or ecommerce aspirations. Learn from others who have had the same questions as you.

Join us from 5.30pm at Antenna, Beck St, Nottingham NG1 1EQ (map)

February Event

The event had good attendance with many more experts than businesses. We had round table discussion and the following topics came up:

• Buy With Confidence is a directory of traders vetted by Trading Standards. Nottingham is one of the few places to be included in the scheme. For £65 you can be listed on the site which can provide you with leads.
• There is high demand for PHP programmers and Flash Developers at the moment but no easy way to find them. Although we had both at the event – Jon Newby of Jooby Design is a flash developer.
• Is there a resource listing all Nottingham freelance creatives? Should there be one?
• New expert Kris Leech of Interkonect was able to assist Implanta Design with CMS advice and Golfshake with systems admin advice.
• Free training available from eBusiness Insights if your company employs between 10-49 staff.

February Experts

The next Web 2.0 Surgery is to be held on Thursday 18th February 2010 from 5:30pm at Antenna, Beck St, Nottingham NG1 1EQ (map)

The Experts in Attendance for the February Web 2.0 Surgery will be:

• Caron-Jane Lyon – Web 2 & Social Media orientation, Mobile & Live Social Media tools, Virtual World – Second Life
• Stu Owens – E-Commerce development, Online Marketing strategy, SEO, PPC & Email marketing.
• Susi O’Neill – Developing multimedia web content (text, audio and video), blogging and online copywriting, cross-platform production and developing online audiences.

• James Bryant – Video Production and Video Marketing
• Joyce Gemmell – Digital project planning, marketing, networking and web design
• Jamie Huskisson – Web development – Magneto, WordPress, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript

Bring your Web 2.0 questions for our Web 2.0 experts.

For regular updates on Web 2.0 Surgery, please signup to the newsletter.

If you are an expert interested in attending the event, or you are looking for an expert with a particular skill, please contact us at experts@web20surgery.com.

2010 Events

New Venue and New Time

We’ve decided to move Web 2.0 Surgery to Antenna on Beck St. This venue opened in October 2009 and is home to many creative professionals. It is a great meeting space with bar and restaurant as well as business facilities – meeting rooms, wifi etc.
We’re also beginning the event earlier at 5.30pm. This is prompted by feedback from attendees and should open the event to a wider audience.

Dates

The first dates for the year are:

• Thursday 18th Feb 2010
• Thursday 18th March 2010
• Thursday 15th April 2010

eBusiness Champions – Google Analytics

The next eBusiness Champions event is on Thursday 26 28th January 2010 at Cape, Victoria St, Nottingham.

The event will cover Google Analytics topics including setup, metrics, goals, filters, benchmarking and reporting. This will be an ideal introduction to the subject for those who are not yet using the tool and those you have not yet mastered it. If you are trying to understand how customers use your site and understand more about conversions, this session will help.

Please register your interest in the event.