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It’s not a bad video, but I’d like to see/hear more of the actual content from the event. From what I’ve heard and seen via Twitter etc, it was well received and seems to have filled a gap in the market. via viddler.com

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Quick update re. the latest downloadable content;

Firstly, and most importantly, there’s a new tartanpodcast which you can get here.

I recorded a video for the excellent Tweetabix this morning and you can watch it here.

There are lots of new, downloadable bits on my work podcast, the Social Media Podcast, which you can get here. You can even have updates sent to you via email, so please stick your address in the box on the front page. We’ve also got a FriendFeed room you can join to discuss all thing social media and you can get that here.

Flickr is where my latest photos are going, since 2005, and you can find photos from my recent business trip to Aberdeen here.

Twitter is where I update the most regularly, so if you’re nice and friendly you can follow me here. But I don’t want any nonsense from you.

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?

And the feeling is mutual.

After a 5am alarm, it was off to Aberdeen for the day yesterday, heading off from just outside Glasgow at 6am. The traffic was light and we got there for just after 8.15am. Into Starbucks on Huntley Street (corner of Union Street), see photo above, then onwards with a total of 7 meetings in and around the city.

What we noticed about these meetings when compared with similar in Glasgow or Edinburgh is that each potential client spent the first few minutes of the meeting telling us what they do. This is much better than us having to tell them what we do, hoping that something we say catches their fancy. So, we were able to very quickly identify the core services that we offer that would fit into their needs.

We’re heading back up early in February for three days of meetings and presentations, plus some follow-ups.

An Aberdeen office in the near future? Maybe. A house move for the Hunters to Aberdeen? Maybe.

And not just because I didn’t get shot in South Central LA, or anything like that. No, instead it was a good day seeing my social media friends around the world react with excitement and cynicism in equal measure on blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

Today was a good day because CC Chapman got all enthusiastic about CNN’s live Facebook interaction.

Today was a good day because two of our video podcast productions got into the top 5 of their iTunes category.

Today was a good day because I got some good work done, had some good meetings, made some good calls, generated some good interest in what we do and had input into our evolution as a company and how we dovetail with our clients.

Today was just a good day.

Any other social media people come across patter like this? While chatting to a potential client they mention that a project they’re involved with could using some input from Podcastmatters. They then said, “but they are making a DVD, so..”

I pointed out that DVDs are a bit 20th century. To their credit they replied, “you know, as I was saying that I was thinking ‘why are they making a DVD?’”.

Delighted to see another of our social networks getting props from Ning

Today I started with some nice coffee and a plain bagel. Then, at work, I had a banana while editing podcast content for the New Pajamas Campaign. After that I went into what turned out to be a 4 hour meeting where we listed all of our clients and detailed where we are with them, during which I ate an apple.

After the meeting finished - at around 14.20 - I had a tin of ‘big soup’, lamb and vegetable, followed by a Muller rice and a sugar-free energy drink. While eating my soup I was watching the latest Jake and Amir videos (‘Scary’ is brilliant and reminded me of my son), updating my calendar, sorted through my to-do list(s). I then resumed editing content for New Pajamas. 

I was then interrupted by a phone call from a client whom I’d emailed during our 4 hour meeting. While talking to him on the phone it started snowing. By the time our conversation ended it became clear we should all head home early due to the snow.

On the journey home I fielded two calls, one from Cordelia and one from Bethany.

Now back home, I’m tying up loose ends, emailing links to clients, adding links to my blog, replying to tweets, trying to read a couple of articles on-line, finishing edits to the podcast content I started first thing this morning. It’s 18:08.

The Fake Bake Boutique, Glasgow on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

The Hirer Careers Network - bloopers (via podcastmatters)

Decent props from Ning for a social network we made.

I’m working in Aberdeen today. I stayed at the gloriously cozy and intimate Malmaison. However, so far I’ve been unable to get a decent cup of coffee in Aberdeen. The coffee at breakfast this morning was the only weak - literally - point of my stay at the hotel. And at the venue, The Beach Ballroom, the coffee is equally poor.

Is this indicative of coffee in Aberdeen?