My fellow traveller Nick Booth has been developing the Social Media surgery model for the last couple of years and this week launched Social Media Surgery Plus, a website to list, coordinate and inspire surgeries around the world.
Here’s Nick introducing the site and you can feel his pride and enthusiasm bursting from the screen and justifiably so.
Of course nothing comes from a bubble and, while I’ve only been on the periphery of the development of the surgery model, I planted one of the seeds when I sat in a cafe once a week giving free online help in 2008 and called it a “social media surgery”. Nick along with many others has taken it to new levels but I hope you’ll forgive me a soupçon of pride at seeing one of my silly ideas graduate like this.
I’ve been thinking of bringing back the original Pete Ashton Surgery model as a way of generating some income and it does seem to be the best way for me to work with people. More on that if and when it develops but if you’ve like half an hour of my time for a reasonable fee do get in touch.