The Second Surgery

The second Web 2.0 Surgery took place at Cape, Nottingham on Thursday 23th April 2009.

There were six experts in attendance:

• Susi O’Neill – Developing multimedia web content (text, audio and video), blogging and online copywriting, cross-platform production and developing online audiences.
• Chris Rowe – Web CMSs, Site Interactivity, XHTML and CSS, GTD (Get things done) Ninja.
• Stu Owens – E-Commerce development, Online Marketing strategy, SEO, PPC & Email marketing.
• Ryan O’Sullivan – solicitor within the Commerce and Technology Unit at Shoosmiths
• Edward Lewis – Online Marketing, SEO, PPC
• Alexia Leachman – Brand Building, Sales & marketing consultancy, Business coaching, Personal branding coaching

Among the conversations were:

• Mike Whitby from Adtrak talking ecommerce, PCI compliance, terms of use and privacy policies with Ryan O’Sullivan.
• Alistair Owens from Atticas Ltd discussing upgrading from Wordpress 2.0 to 2.7 with Chris Rowe.
• Gareth Harcombe-Minson from E2save talking rich media content for mobile retail with Susi O’Neill.
• Doug Mills and Edward Lewis had a SecondWednesday conversation about ASP/PHP/Python.
• Joyce Gemmell from the The Cool Creative Company was discussing online video content and delivery with Alexia Leachman.
• Caron-Jane Lyon and Alexia Leachman were chatting Tweet bubbles, personal branding and video streamed conversation.

Others attending the event were:

Fernanda  Rizzo and Marco Baglieri from Implanta Design, Nick Walker from Walker Systems, Nick Barker from Aware Monitoring, Suada Aslamova from Infero, Kiran John from The Plate Market, Wil Linssen from Linssen, Peter O’Brien from WeAreAlight, Francine Pickering from Clarity Marketing and Smart Women.

There were plenty of new faces at the event with everyone finding someone interesting to talk to.

We hope that you’ll be able to join us at the next event.