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Social Media Taster Course Homework Winner

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the prize for the best homework set at the first Social Media Taster Course goes to Faye Treffry of Poppy Treffry.

Faye wins the prize against stiff competition from other course delegates who demonstrated great enthusiasm in their entries. (more…)

Social Media: Not just marketing. Not just technology.

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…)

UKNetWeb delivers Social Media Presentation to the Cornwall Hub

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Last week (Thursday 26th February), UKNetWeb Head of Social Media, Aren Grimshaw gave a presenation entitled, ‘Social Media: An Introduction’ to members of the Cornwall Hub

A copy of the slideshow and video footage of the presentation are included below.

An Introduction to Social Media
View more presentations from Aren Grimshaw. (tags: social media)

UKNetWeb will be running a free follow up taster course on using Social Media for Business on the afternoon of the 2nd of April. For details and booking for the event please click here.

In the News – November

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

UKNetWeb has been in the news again this month with coverage in the Western Morning News and the latest issue of Business Cornwall Magazine. (more…)

Warning to Cornish Facebook Users

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…)

Facebook Shows 172% Year on Year Growth in UK

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…)

Social Networks

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

When we first started to hear about Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIN and all the other social networking sites, it was easy to write them off as just another fad that would soon die away. However, just a few months later it seems as though everybody is using them. (more…)

get Flocked

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I discovered the Flock browser at the beginning of this year after noticing that friends on Facebook were joining up as fans.

A dedicated user of the Mozilla Firefox system, I had my reservations of moving to yet another browser and all the issues in cross browser compatibility on badly developed sites I was sure to have.

On download, I found a browser well beyond my expectations and one that I believe enhances my online experience and my efficiency in carrying out research and networking online. Using the same image rendering as Firefox (according to my techie friends in the office), I don’t need to worry about any new browser compatibility issues at all.

So why do I recommend Flock?

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