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Edition 2 - Twestival, Swearing and Cameron Reilly
Mark Hunter, Clare Malcolm and Kyle Murdoch gather in the Podcastmatters Ltd studio for another edition of the Social Media Podcast.
On today’s show we cover;
- Twestival
- Charity:Water
- Fake Bake’s burgeoning social media presence
- Interview Cameron Reilly
- Cameron talks about his background, the challenges and threats facing social media, his perception on whether corporations now ‘get it’ and how newspapers are flogging a dead horse (interview NSFW)
- We also discuss the death of newspapers (Facebook Cause)
Visit Podcastmatter’s social network to engage with fellow social media producers and consumers. Paul Levinson has just posted this great video, highly recommended viewing.
Ok, if Tesco want to sell bread and milk cheaper than Morrisons, that’s good for consumers. That’s competition and it can save consumers money.
But if the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV want to join forces and launch an on-demand video service that will allow consumers to download video content to consume when it suits them, does the fact that they’re not in competition with each other matter if consumers are getting a good service? I wouldn’t have thought so.
The Competition Commission disagrees and says that consumers would only benefit if the broadcasters are in competition with each other. So, the project has been halted. No on-demand video service for you.
As the broadcasters said in a joint statement; “the real losers from this decision are British consumers”. ” - m:m_w/: “No on-demand video service for you.”
Old people? New media.
I’m down in Chatham, Kent, today for the Kent Reliance Building Society’s AGM. I’m not a member of the mutual, however, their Chief Executive, Mike Lazenby, invited Podcastmatters Ltd to attend and podcast from the proceedings.
KRBS have been on the go for over 100 years, this was their 120th AGM, and the unkind among us would wonder if some of their members have been with them since their inception. I’m not sure there was anyone in the room at the Commissioner’s House under the age of 50 who wasn’t a KRBS employee. Obviously, anyone under the age of 65 would probably have been at work and thus unable to attend.
What’s interesting is the split in opinion on technology among the membership. The 61 year old Vice Chairman confessed that he’s not that into computers but that his wife is on Facebook. Mike Lazenby related an experience of when he was on the phone to a customer who told him that they were just about to go online and do some banking. This customer was 83 years old. Conversely, one member stood up during the meeting proudly proclaimed that they get all their news from newspapers and do not own a single piece of electronic technology. They did, however, concede to owning a telephone.
So, while it’s clear their target audience - ie. the mutual’s membership - may not be in the normal new media consuming demographic, that hasn’t stopped KRBS looking ahead to the future and wishing to have some quality new media content to offer their membership, along with more traditional communication methods, such as brochures and printed news letters.
Lazenby was very bold in his assertion that much of the current financial crisis is being exacerbated by old media’s newspapers and TV/radio broadcasts. He’s passionate about the fact that new media - podcasts, YouTube channels etc - can significantly redress the balance and promote a much more healthier and positive spin on the state of the country’s finances.
The overall vibe I captured in the audio that will be edited and released as the KRBS podcast is that communication is king, being able to talk directly to your customers is essential and that being transparent and authentic is indispensable. New media for old people?
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