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Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
The question so many people have been asking and still continually ask is, how important is Facebook to my marketing and specifically online marketing strategy? Two weeks into a focused Facebook Fan page campaign for a significant regional level brand, and the earliest set of statistics has come in. (more…)
Tags: Business, cornish business, facebook, social media, toby parkins, Web Development
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Monday, August 31st, 2009

Social Media Webinar - UKNetWeb and Tonick Media - Aren Grimshaw presenting
The Social Media for Business Taster Webinar delivered by UKNetWeb with Tonick Media was an outstanding success. This was the first in the series of taster courses to be entirely delivered through a webinar platform following a series of physically located seminars based in St Agnes, Cornwall.
The event was almost entirely marketed digitally with over one third of attendees discovering the course through Twitter. Most attendees were located in Britain and the United States of America although there were attendees from Finland and Canada. (more…)
Tags: aren grimshaw, Marketing, social media, toby parkins, webinar
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
The Social Media for Business Taster Webinar on 27th August 2009 was well received with over 25 people viewing from 4 different countries. We have captured a video and audio recording of the main content of the presentation which can be viewed below.
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Tags: aren grimshaw, smtc, social media, toby parkins, web 2.0, Web Development, webinar
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
This chatroom transcript was taken from the Social Media for Business Taster Webinar on 27th August 2009. The event itself took the form of a video and audio delivered presentation delivered in 2 parts by Toby Parkins and Aren Grimshaw. (more…)
Tags: Add new tag, aren grimshaw, smtc, social media, toby parkins, web 2.0, Web Development, webinar
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
A copy of yesterday’s ‘Social Media for Business – Social Media Taster Course‘ Powerpoint Presentations are shown below.
For all those who could not get a place on the first course, please get in touch, as we are hoping to run another event on Thursday May 7th. (more…)
Tags: smtc, social media, social media course, social media for business, social media taster course, uknetweb
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
We have recently launched a new channel on You Tube for our work in the Social Media arena.
This channel features footage of our presentations to local groups, interviews carried out at the Cornwall Twestival and links to other videos we think you may find of interest.
Please visit our channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/uknetwebsm.
Tags: cornwall twestival, Marketing, social media, uknetweb, you tube, you tube channel, youtube
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Social media is more than just another marketing channel. It offers the small and big business alike, new routes to engage and build relationships with their customers and the wider community.
It can help you understand the changing marketplace, provide a route to inform and educate your target market as well as drive new and returning business. (more…)
Tags: business strategy, cornwall twestival, facebook, market research, Marketing, PR, public relations, reputation management, social media, Social Networking, twestival, twitter
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
If you want to prosper in business during these tougher economic times then now is the time to start engaging your customers.
Customer engagement is all about engaging your customers with your company or brand and it can lead to increased order values, customer loyalty and word of mouth recommendation. (more…)
Tags: blogging, brand republic, customer engagement, customer engagement strategy, ecommerce, economic downturn, engagement, feedback and review systems, recession, statistics, survey, user generated content, web 2.0
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Cornish Facebook users are being warned not to open suspicious links in their Facebook accounts after a Trojan virus made its way through the profiles of hundreds of users in the county. (more…)
Tags: business in cornwall, cornwall, facebook, Hack, Messages, Security, social media, Social Networking
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Recent figures published by Hitwise in the US show that Facebook is still dominating the UK Social Networking Market with a market share of 45.29% for June 2008 compared to Bebo with 25.04% and MySpace with 14.75%. (more…)
Tags: bebo, facebook, figures, friendsreunited, livespaces, myspace, reports, socialnetworking, social_networking, statistics, stats, uk, us, usage, web 2.0
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