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Hey, sorry I didn't have chance to post the last two weeks social media news. Thought I would run through the most news worthy social media stories and developments over the past couple of weeks. [caption id="attachment_497" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Social media news catch up"][/caption] Hootsuite update Well if you have read my previous updates or follow me on Twitter you will know Hootsuite is my Twitter and social media management suite, well without boring you too much here are the features from the Hootsuite blog -

Message Assignment — Delegate Twitter and Facebook updates to team members via a pull-down menu Message Annotations — Add notes to the assigned messages to provide context or instructions Assignment Forwarding — Not the correct department? Re-assign a

I thought seeing as most people in the UK are actually talking about today's General Election it would be a nice to tell you how to keep up to date on the voting! On Twitter you can keep up to date with the following hashtags #ge2010 and #UKvote On Facebook - Democracy UK For the best mash up's check out Exit Polly OR The Guardian's clever way of mash up tweets (to get involved you tweet #ukvote and your post code) I also have you covered if you need a walk through if you do not know what to do aboutmyvote Danny

As the title suggests Internet World 2010 is everything related to the web in a conference/expo format. Some of the big web hosts were there, Rackspace were pushing there new no more servers and had a huge stand as you walked in, Ukfast probably had the biggest stand and most appeal with a race car right in the middle of the expo floor, obviously a big win for the amount of men and suits who attended Earls Court 2 (yesterday) As you can imagine there were numerous businesses there talking about social media and the impact it is having on businesses. Many of the companies who presented actually in my humble opinion actually missed the point of social media, (this for me) is where the web is made fair more personal, where work is personalised via the internet and allows you to make personal

Over the last few weeks, there has been many people ask me about Twitter, not just why is it popular but what does "tweet" mean? What are followers? And why should I use Twitter? Well I thought it was best to share the best guides available - Official Twitter 101 guide Newbies guide to Twitter Mashable's video guides to Twitter The Times beginners guide to Twitter Twitter hashtags you should know (My previous hastag post) Mashable's guide on how to amend your Twitter background Here is a very cool Twitter guide for you to flick through

If you have any better user guides or would like to ask any questions, please do let me know :) Danny Denhard