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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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I’ve been sharing my notes from Channel 4’s 4Talent Inspiration Session on Online Communities.  A one day intensive workshop on building and growing successful online communities, it took place as part of Birmingham’s first digital festival, Hello Digital.

This post covers my notes from Heather Champ, Director of Community at Flickr’s talk.

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Here is installment number 3 in my notes from Channel 4’s 4Talent Inspiration Session on Online Communities at Birmingham’s first digital festival, Hello Digital.

This post features my notes from Ally Branley, Community Manager at Channel 4′s talk.

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I’m sharing my notes from Channel 4’s 4Talent Inspiration Session on Online Communities at Birmingham’s first digital festival, Hello Digital.

Featuring illustrious speakers like:

• Heather Champ, Director of Community at Flickr, the world’s largest photo-sharing site
• Emma Monks, Senior Manager, Moderation and Safety at teen friendly virtual world, Habbo Hotel
• Community Consultant Ed Mitchell
• Ally Branley, Community Manager at Channel 4

it was an intensive series of talks and small group sessions aimed at helping web content creators and online community managers build, grow and manage successful online communities.

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I spent an illuminating day in the West Midlands on Sunday learning about building, growing and managing online communities.

It was great to attend an Inspiration Session on Online Communities put on by Channel 4’s 4Talent arm as part of the Hello World conference strand of Birmingham’s first digital festival, Hello Digital.

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That was one of the findings of a fascinating report on Social Network Marketing in the UK sent to me by the author, Tom Chapman of www.socialnetworkmarketinguk.com.

According to the report, UK MySpace users are even less likely to purchase a product or service from a brand’s profile page: 79% of UK MySpace respondents state they would not purchase a product or service from a brand via their profile page.

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We have a winner!

Congratulations to Nathan Keller whose entry got the most votes in the 5 day ‘comment contest’ that was the 5 Day PUMA Manchester Giveaway.

Nathan wins 5 pairs of tickets to an exclusive Hadouken! gig at Manchester’s Moho Live on June 17th and a pair of USAN trainers from PUMA’s Runway Collection.

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As part of PUMA’s hunt for Manchester’s most promising music talent, we’re giving away a pair of coveted USAN trainers from PUMA’s Runway Collection.

We’ve also got up for grabs 5 pairs of money-can’t-buy tickets to an exclusive gig featuring hotly tipped grime-disco masters Hadouken! at Manchester’s Moho Live on 17th June.

Also performing will be local bands hand picked by PUMA; if you’re in a Manchester band check out www.pumamanchester.com for details on how to bag a support slot at the gig. Your track may even be used in a PUMA marketing campaign!

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This post will come as no surprise as I have hinted several times that I am now looking to run future online giveaways on the Real Fresh TV site after the fantastic success of the first iPhone giveaway, flaws and all…

First, thanks again to Imran who left an insightful comment suggesting I look at running giveaways as a revenue earner for the site. He even went as far as suggesting that they may be better than Google AdSense.

Judging by anecdotal evidence on AdSense earnings on the vast majority of blogs, he is probably right.

Well, Imran, like minds think alike, as they say…

Whilst keeping an eye on votes as they came in for the iPhone giveaway on Saturday, it dawned on me that the real value of the iPhone giveaway has been the engagement shown by entrants as the competition progressed.

I have been amazed by people’s involvement with the giveaway, even after they made their entries.

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Image courtesy of T3

Now we’re cooking…

Competition in the first British iPhone giveaway is hotting up as the deadline approaches.

In the running so far we have:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 86 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 65 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 16 votes

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