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