Last time in Vienna I met the lovely and dedicated Meral Akin-Hecke, who initiated digitalks. digitalks is a series of events that are bringing Social Media to people who have heard of Web 2.0, but don’t know exactly what it’s all about.

The first of a series of ten workshops, which are being held at the Museumsquartier every month, will be on 9 October 2007. The topic of this first event will be blogs.

The great thing about digitalks, and the underlying motivation, is that the workshops are free. All you need to do is register, but attendance is free. Meral wants to bring the sphere of Social Media to a mainstream audience that  has not yet been in using Social Media. Planned topics for the public workshops are blogs, wikis, podcasts, photo/audio/video sharing, social networks, semantic search, VOIP, virtual worlds. Two experts are invited to host each event; they will be presenting the subjects in regards to their practical use and topicality and facilitate a Q&A session.

So, if you’re in Vienna (or surroundings), subscribe to the digitalks blog and go to the sessions that interest you. If you have friends or colleagues you want to initiate (or if you want to discover new aspects of Social Media you haven’t quite gotten acquainted with yet), these sessions will do the trick.