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This article forms part of a study on social media usage amongst FTSE 100 companies.

Each company in the FTSE 100 index was reviewed on its usage of such social media tools as RSS feeds*, blogs, online video, podcasts and social media platforms like Flickr and Facebook on its main website and on occasion, on websites of well-known subsidiary companies.

*RSS feeds are a simple way of delivering fresh versions of a website’s content to online readers automatically.

According to the Guardian.co.uk Business Glossary:
“The FTSE 100 index comprises the 100 most highly capitalised blue chip companies on the London Stock Exchange, representing approximately 81% of the UK market.”

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Here’s how specialist insurance and reinsurance underwriting group, Amlin (AML.L) fared.

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There has already been much discussion on the web about the incredible meeting of minds that was the first Social Media Cafe of the year last night at The Northern.  You can read Manchester Evening News blogger Sarah Hartley’s 5 takeaways at the Mancunian Way blog which includes links to videos.

The first in the unconference format, myself and all the other speakers were bowled over by the enthusiasm of all who attended.

I presented a well attended Beginner’s Guide to Social Media session, slides after the jump:

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Or so it would seem.

It’s the season for predictions.  From the BBC’s list of hotly tipped bands for 2009 to Wired’s list of tech predictions including a look at the wry miscalculations of yesteryear, this time of year it seems you can’t move for lists of predictions.

I’ll throw one into the mix for good measure.  I think that 2009 will be the year social media makes its way into the enterprise in the UK. 

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Earlier this week I shared how Peter Hartey, a recent attendee of the Social Media Starter Course was seeing some fantastic online success around a social media project he launched after attending the course in October.

Hot on the heels of Peter’s good news, I’ve been contacted by another Social Media Starter Course attendee with details of a fascinating social media project, this time featuring a Christmas single!

Liam Walsh of Ask Me PR is currently promoting an inventive musician’s Credit Crunch-themed Christmas single using social media.

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It’s not often I get the opportunity to combine social media with a worthy cause and so I was rather excited to hear that one of the last attendees on the Social Media Starter Course has joined forces with MAG (Mines Advisory Group), the Manchester landline charity, to kick off an ambitious online poetry competition using social media.

Peter Hartey is behind Poetic Republic, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the poetic arts and humanitarian causes.  Poetic Republic was born out of Poetica, a completely open writing forum based in Central Library, Manchester.

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I’m rather apprehensively dipping my toes into live event blogging via my Samsung Omnia touchscreen mobile phone.

I’m no stranger to event blogging, having done a fair bit in recent months. Writing direct to web on a touchscreen phone needs to be experienced to be believed, however, it makes you realise just how far things have advanced in mobile phone technology over the last 6 months.

Back to the 2nd Manchester Social Media Cafe. Currently listening to this month’s speaker, Heather Corcoran from Liverpool’s FACT museum share about being involved in an open source system designed specifically for media artists called pure:dyne.

Also briefly mentioned FACT TV, a HD web TV channel featuring FACT archives? Currently documenting much of it.

Really interestd in net art, showed a number of interesting video examples.
The most interesting was a ‘data mash’ fusing Rihanna’s Umbrella and The Cranberries ‘Zombie’, done by analysing the data files representing the videos and mixing the two.

Visually the effect is much like what you get with digital interference on a DVD, if there is any such thing with the characters in both videos morphing in and out of the image.

I’m going to stop now; I’ve enjoyed this liveblogging experiment but it is rather more labour-intensive than I anticipated. Will post a follow up featuring links to Heather’s examples.

UPDATE:
You can get a full list of links for Heather’s presentation via the Social Media Café Manchester wiki.

There’s also a neat round of up blogs and chatter after the event on the Social Media Cafe Manchester’s Twitter page.  Particularly pointed was Tim Difford‘s views over at the One Greener Day blog.  Fascinating read. 

This article forms part of a study on social media usage amongst FTSE 100 companies.

Each company in the FTSE 100 index was reviewed on its usage of such social media tools as RSS feeds*, blogs, online video, podcasts and social media platforms like Flickr and Facebook on its main website and on occasion, on websites of well-known subsidiary companies.

*RSS feeds are a simple way of delivering fresh versions of a website’s content to online readers automatically.

According to the Guardian.co.uk Business Glossary:
“The FTSE 100 index comprises the 100 most highly capitalised blue chip companies on the London Stock Exchange, representing approximately 81% of the UK market.”

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Here’s how independent petrol company, Cairn Energy (CNE.L) fared.

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In between covering social media usage amongst FTSE 100 companies, I try and post blog articles sharing interesting industry events I attend.

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This article forms part of a study on social media usage amongst FTSE 100 companies.

Each company in the FTSE 100 index was reviewed on its usage of such social media tools as RSS feeds*, blogs, online video, podcasts and social media platforms like Flickr and Facebook on its main website and on occasion, on websites of well-known subsidiary companies.

*RSS feeds are a simple way of delivering fresh versions of a website’s content to online readers automatically.

According to the Guardian.co.uk Business Glossary:
“The FTSE 100 index comprises the 100 most highly capitalised blue chip companies on the London Stock Exchange, representing approximately 81% of the UK market.”

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Here’s how the UK’s largest generalist investment trust, Alliance Trust (ATST.L) fared.

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Last night’s Social Media Café event at The Northern exceeded my expectations.

Firstly, turn out was impressive, I’m not sure of numbers but there were at least 50 people in the audience.

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