Here’s a great video demonstrating some real life uses of social media in business. Not just large corporations either but also SMEs.

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Blink and you’ll miss the tweet sent to me. BTW Microsoft, send me a copy of ultimate please. Just cos you’re nice like that =).

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A very comical look at the twitter phenomenon. BTW, yes I do have friends. Or so they tell me – via twitter =)

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This is a great viral video. Nearly 3million hits in 10 days on YouTube. What a way to make sheep herding popular.

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The financial crisis is likely to hit the fine dining industry very hard. Already there have been reports of exclusive London restaurants slashing their prices in order to maintain a steady flow of clientele and therefore subsequent cashflow. Competing on price, however, is never a wise, or usually profitable, strategy, so dining establishments need to look for alternate ways to bring in the customers. One easy way is to develop a social media strategy to connect with your customers and create a community of regular diners.

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Tags: cms, Engage!, facebook, flickr, google alert, restaurant, Social Media, social networking, strategy, twitpic, twitter, twitter grader, youtube

A friend of mine from the Aussie Geek Podcast, Tim, has written some very wise words about some software that threatens the very essence and community of Twitter.

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Following in the footsteps of Nokia Friendview, Google has decided to delve into the world of location-based mobile social networking. Google Latitude is a free addon service to Google Maps Mobile that allows users to add friends and share current location and status updates with them. Of course this requires that the user have a GPS enabled mobile phone.

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For bloggers (including microbloggers aka Twitterers etc) in Perth, you are invited to a special bloggers meetup. Details below:

Sponsored event: open to all West Australian bloggers

• Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
• Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
• Location: Brass Monkey Hotel; The Wine Room
• Address: Corner William and James, Northbridge

Nuffnang is an advertising network for bloggers about to be launched in Perth. The founder of the business is flying in from Singapore to explain how it works and talk to any bloggers interested in joining. A number of prominent Perth bloggers are planning to attend.

The launch is at the Wine Room of the Brass Monkey (not upstairs in usual place). There are tens of thousands of bloggers in this network; though Perth Bloggers does not endorse any particular network we’re happy to have a look… Come and enjoy the hospitality.

For further information please contact me.

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Looking for some examples of social media marketing to help guide your own efforts? I found this great list of examples. And it’s a wiki so you can add your own.

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Episode 2 of Skribbin. Is the hype about Twitter the same as the hype that surrounded Second Life?

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