AFG Venture Group Dispatches

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What Do You Get When You Fall In Love? : Social Media’s Less Lovely Face

by Anthony Hughes, Senior Consultant, Digital Media and Online Learning, AFG Venture Group Falling in Love is So Easy To Do You probably remember some of the lyrics from that classic song of disillusionment with love and relationships, ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’. If not, here’s a little reminder: What do you get when [...]

UsabilityOne’s Take On Social Media

by Shefik Bey, Managing Director, UsabilityOne Social media has been pumped up to the extent that many businesses feel they may fall by the wayside if they can’t harness its powers. Immediately! Yet, rushing in and taking a punt without forming an understanding of customer preferences and behaviour, actually puts the business’s branding and future [...]

Social Media and Social Networks: A Guide For The Uninitiated

by Mitchell Brown, Corporate Advisor & Analyst, AFG Venture Group Social Media and Social Networks are widely used terms, encompassing a range of technologies and platforms. This article will provide a brief summary of three of the most popular platforms at the moment and attempt to explain the basic terminology, functions and the benefits of: [...]

Social Media, Social Networking and Social Capital

by Kathy Phelan and Petra Zlatevska, Director, Small World Social and Writer, Consultant and Presenter No matter what you may think of the film “The Social Network”, the film chronicling the rise of Facebook, now the worlds largest social media network with over 500 million users, it demonstrates that social media is no longer just [...]

Social Networking as a Means to Enhance Your Business

by Ms Kim Anderson, CEO, The Reading Room We live in a connected world. The internet has changed the way in which we conduct every aspect of our lives. We are now connected to each other, anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year. Being connected has changed [...]