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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…)

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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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…)

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…)

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.

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

There has never been a better time to explore the many free applications, software, online services and networks available on the web.

With many companies, organisations and individuals generating new content all the time it is worth taking the time to see how each may improve the way you do business, research or networking online.

In this post I have attempted to catalogue some of the many sources I have found useful in my role researching and advising companies at uknetweb on the possibilities presented by Web 2.0.

Some of the links refer to other list blogs cataloging the best of the web, others are my own selections and some are link to directories I found useful when browsing the web.

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