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So far the appointments have been rather disappointing; one one person has turned up for their slot, and unfortunately I couldn’t help her fully with her issue.  When you add in as well that the appointment sheet was misplaced for this week it does me things rather awkward

At this rate it looks like I will be going back to a drop in surgery for September, as I get more people coming in and its easier for me to arrange via Social Media.  The appointment slots were only ever meant to be a way to control the number of activities I was undertaking, but it seems to have caused more problems than it solved.

I will be taking a break in August, returning in September for more monthly surgeries.  I will be going back to running the surgeries as a drop in session, so please pay attention to Twitter/facebook/linkedin for the dates!!

So I’ve completed the first surgery based on appointments on Saturday, and I have to say that not only was this an easier way to do it, we still had some issues.

The biggest of these was people not turning up for their appointment. I know that I’m doing this for free, but this is very frustrating as I had to turn away two people who had turned up and needed my help because my time was already booked up.

Let’s see how June’s surgery turns out.

These are the Saturday’s that I will be at St Johns Wood Library;

5th April
10th May
7th June
5th July

After realising that I spent too much energy on these surgeries previously, I will be taking August 2014 and January 2015 off, So I will be publishing new dates later in the summer.

I haven’t had any feedback about how people would prefer these surgeries to be held? Drop in or Appointment based?  you can contact me on twitter with any comments you might have. (@flexsite) 

As some of you may or may not be aware, I have stopped the Laptop Surgeries that I was holding at Keats Library and Marylebone Library.

After almost 4 years these had become a staple of my community work and had blossomed into a fully featured service covering all facets of computing, but as they grew, the surgeries lost their focus on the original goal which was to help those who were first starting out in computing with their first issues so that they were not permanently put off by the process.

I would like to thank everyone that made a point of using the Surgeries, I felt privileged that I could help…