Community capacity-building through social media surgeries

Performance Indicators

The funding from the local strategic partnership Be Birmingham has helped to nurture the social media surgeries which have become a growing movement.  Since that first surgery in 2008 they have been run in 12 areas of the city - a total of 117 events involving 458 people who have worked on creating or improving at least 96 websites or social media accounts for community and voluntary orgs.  In October 2012 Podnosh had recorded that about 2985 people have taken part in social media surgeries in the UK, of which more than 400 act as volunteer surgeons.  

During the project Podnosh also developed a web-based impact assessment tool for social media Surgeries. The impact assessment tool captures both intended and unintended consequences of social media surgeries and allowed a richer picture of the quality of the outcomes of the project than raw statistics can provide. (Click here to see what was recorded at the first Harborne surgery).