Try Something New Today – Online!
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Silver Surfers’ Day Event at Sainsbury’s Park Farm, Folkestone Kent on Friday 15th May
Channel Chamber of Commerce and the business community in Folkestone are holding a free taster session for Silver Surfers’ Day on Friday 15th May at Sainsbury’s in Park Farm Folkestone.
This event on National Silver Surfers day (SSD09) sees the launch of our Folkestone Digital Mentoring programme. We will be setting up laptops with mobile internet (thanks to chamber members o2) at Sainsbury in Park Farm, Folkestone from 10am until 4.00pm on Friday 15th May.
The aim is toget people to try something new and take their first steps online. Volunteers from the business community and sixth formers from a local school will be on hand to tempt shoppers into Trying Something New At Sainsbury
WHO CAN ATTEND?
Anyone over 50 is welcome to attend. They can come whatever their ’stage’ of media literacy, to:
DO VISITORS NEED TO BOOK?
No – just turn up in the Foyer between 10am and 4pm when you are doing your shopping.
For more information please feel free to contact me via the Chamber
or you can follow me live tweeting on the day at http://www.twitter.com/carolinechamber
Caroline Chambers
May 7th, 2009 carolinechambers | 4 Comments »
Tags: Folkestone, kent, silver surfing in the aisles, try something new today
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May 7th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hey, fantastic! Thanks Caroline,
Gill
May 7th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Yep Caroline, we’ve tweeted about this, but v excited to see how this project goes. Credit to your digital creativity; please share more about your digital mentoring project in Folkestone with us all too in due course.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
So far so good we have got over 35 people to try something new today and get on line – its getting very busy where we are but also quite windy so we are renaming the day Silver WIND surfing day… LOL (joke there too – we are multi-tasking)
May 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I’ve just been notified of this film in Sainsbury’s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or48RRf6YTY&feature=channel_page