Liverpool Social Media Surgeries
Getting to grips with social media and digital can be a bit of a daunting task for anyone but when you are running a charity or third sector organisation it can be time consuming and confusing to say the least, that’s why we are happy to be involved in organising Liverpool Social Media Surgery. These surgeries offer a great opportunity for some free one to one tuition in how to make Social Media work for you and your...
Digital Technology Workshops
Digital Technology Workshops How Why DIY’s members already deliver a number of education projects from workshops and seminars to social media surgeries and they’re always up for more. So, we have started organising workshops these are offered at different levels both introductory and professional so there is something for everyone. Digital Technology Workshops Introductory sessions Our introductory sessions are a perfect...
Open Source City….a call out
Late last year the members of How Why DIY wanted to create an event called Open Source City “Open Source City was originally a weekend micro-festival of open source sound & media practice for the 2008 Liverpool City of Culture Programme organised by SoundNetwork and folly” We tried and we failed to get it off the ground mainly we felt after examining the remnants of grant application forms that we had got bogged down...
How Why DIY update
Say goodbye to Buddypress Since we started the site back in 2010 we have always used Buddypress but now we have taken the decision to do away with the WordPress plugin as the traffic to the forum does not measure up to the amount of work we have to put in to maintain it and keep the site clean of spammers, in other words we were spending too much time updating it and not enough time developing the community in the real world –...
Update on our Social Media Surgery
Back in March we organised a social media surgery for 3rd sector organisations and here is a quick report back from those sessions. Find out who we helped below. How Why DIY helped Sam Avery to The Comedy Trust is a fantastic organisation that offers comedy workshops at their venue and in the workplace. Sam Avery from Liverpool’s Comedy Trust came along to discuss their Social media needs and if I can remember without the aid...