The next Coventry and Warwickshire Social Media Cafe is on Friday 16th July from 10am-12pm and you can sign up using EventBrite.

We’re returning to the venue at Coventry University’s Institute for Creative Enterprise or ICE – More venue information here.

We will be back in the Brick Room where we were for April’s CWSMC and if you want to stay on and enjoy ICE in the afternoon then you can with Free Fridays, where anyone can come down, use the free wifi and coffee after CWSMC.

June CWSMC round-up

Last month CWSMC had a great session at the  University of Warwick’s International Digital Lab. As well as the usual chat and coffees, there was a great talk from Coventry City Council about their Facebook page.

Amongst other things, we learned that it attracted more visitors than the council’s own website, and its non-Cov fans (even 52 from Slough!) mean the page is a good opportunity to paint a positive image of the area to outsiders.

There is an excellent write up of some notes from the session by Steve Woodward and there was plenty of Twitter chatter too.

The full talk was also Qikked by Steve Rumsby, so if you’d like to watch it, set aside about half an hour and have cup of tea  and a biscuit to reproduce some of the CWSMC experience.

Thanks as always to our hosts at Warwick University and the Digital Lab, especially Ellie Lovell for making it possible and our guest speakers too.

PS Data manglers event alert – The West Midlands Regional Observatory will be holding an event on the 15th July about Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities. From their website:

This event will set out the challenges and opportunities for public bodies, particularly local authorities, in achieving this. The event will concentrate on recent policy developments in the morning session and on practical application in the afternoon, through sharing examples of best practice and innovation.

(via Andrew MacKenzie)