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Pocketsmith & Social Media

Pocketsmith is Dunedin start-up that really has it right when it comes to social media. Being a  personal finance and forecasting application they could be dry, boring and rather stale but as you’ll hear in the video they’re on-to-it, personable,  engaging and strategically minded with their online social interactions. (Please forgive the background noise, I couldn’t get rid of it).

As you can tell they’re pretty switched on, and are a perfect example of a new bread of company that really understand the importance of focusing on their community.

Please do get behind the guys from Pocketsmith by connecting on Facebook, following their blog, oh and trying out their app.

Social Media Revolution (Short Version)

I recently gave a presentation to a group of relatively high powered social media newbies about what social media could do for their business. I needed to make an impression and finish it off with some wow-factor. Naturally, I turned to the web to find a video that illustrated exactly how important social media is today, and how important it will continue to be in the years ahead.

Unfortunately, all the decent videos that I came across on both youtube and vimeo were just a bit too long for my presentation. So simply using windows movie maker I decided to edit the “Social Media Revolution” video by Socialnomics.  The result is the ‘presentation friendly’ 2.37min video that you see below.

To my absolute delight the video went down a treat and I might just have some work coming my way shortly. I’d strongly recommend using this or something like this in your presentations as it’s incredibly powerful and gives you loads to talk about.

If you decide to use this clip for any reason I’d be eager to hear how it works out, so please do let me know.

Social Media Vids Everyone Should See

These are some of the greatest social media videos available online today – if you know of any vids you think we should add just post a link in the comments.

As the song hint’s boom of the social media is “right here, right now”. This is 4 minutes and 22 seconds of wicked in your face social media facts – These facts should serve as a wake up call to anyone who still think that they’ll be able to get through the rest of their working days without the the social web affecting them.   Get on board or get left behind.

While at first this video seems quite cutsie and whimsical there is a very real message here….stop shouting and start engaging! Stop interrupting the things I enjoy just to get your message across, and start becoming the thing that I enjoy. Be the business that I want to engage with and I’ll spread your message for you = No more cash spent on interruptive ads that I either ignore or skip over.