We're back on for 2012: see you each Tuesday at 10am in the ABC A One cafe.

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If you weren't among the 6 people who came along to Ultimo Coffee Mornings in its new fortnightly, Wednesdays at 10am format, here's what you missed:

- Telstra study: 36% of Australian mobile phone users now have smartphones - http://www.telstra.com.au/abouttelstra/media-centre/announcements/new-study-c... [via http://howwemove.blogspot.com/2010/10/smartphone-is-our-new-mini-dog.html]
- On facebook, "likers" are more valuable than non-likers - http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-media/value-of-a-liker/150630338305797 [via http://wearesocial.net/blog/2010/10/socials-monday-mashup-43/]
- how do you do your social media monitoring?
- a linkedin case study where someone actually received a job offer (from an employer, not a recruiter) via linkedin
- http://academia.edu/ provides notifications of when people look for your work as an academic
- the strange order in which #newtwitter was rolled out
- what's the best iPhone app (tweetdeck is a bit too crashy, echofon, official twitter, hootsuite allows multi-site update but has a tough interface, twitterific, twitterlator, weet)
- what's the best way to teach twitter use to a novice, so they can work comfortably on an official twitter account
- twitter can be a good way of generating deep traffic to an opaque website
- differing viewpoints: should you use http://posterous.com/ to blast the same updates to every social channel (saving resources), or should you treat each channel differently, and attempt to engage in more conversations?

Hope to see you at our next meetup on the October 20th at ABC A One café.

New details for #UCM:

Fortnightly, now on Wednesdays: 6-Oct, 20-Oct, 3-Nov, 17-Nov, 1-Dec, 15-Dec

Same venue as before: ABC A One Café, 700 Harris St, Ultimo

Same time as before: 10am-11am.

Come along, talk about new developments in social media, and your success stories and lessons learned.

Just to let you know, there will be no #ucm gathering for the next two weeks (14th September and 21st September).

We’ll be getting back together in the last week of September, with a new venue, and a new time: watch this space, or email engage at uts.edu.au to be notified when the details are finalised.

Thanks to the 5 people who came along to #ucm this week.

Topics discussed included:

• FB places
  • “checking in”, eg sharing a photo or a recording of what was happening.
    • AudioBoo (http://www.audioboo.fm/) – crippled by its poor iPhone app, but a good way to upload short audio segments to share with friends
    • Eating out and the role of food blogs
  • Does anyone trust community food review sites (eg http://www.eatability.com.au/, http://www.menulog.com.au/, http://www.urbanspoon.com/ etc)
  • Can you rely on a single blogger’s experience, or is a single visit too subjective?
    • The now almost abandoned eggs, bacon, chips and beans - http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/
    • A Melbourne favourite - http://thebreakfastblog.blogspot.com/
    • And a local blogger scored a mention - http://www.theunbearablelightnessofbeinghungry.com/
    • When food bloggers go too far - http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/23/food-blogger-who-asks-for-free-meal-s...
• Foursquare
  • How useful are tips when using foursquare
  • How to take out your frustration when reading an unhelpful tip
  • and the fierce battle for mayor: - cf this NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/fashion/19foursquare.html?_r=1
• The Election
  • Massive live-streaming of the ABC election coverage
  • Lots of people tweeting about the election via the #ausvotes tag (cf @tweeveetv twitter account)
  • Although neither of the major party leaders particularly embraced twitter, this wasn’t a disadvantage to either, as the playing field was level
  • The independents have a lot of opportunity to use twitter now
• Twitter in general
  • The challenge of work/life balance in your twitter profile (cf http://dragonistasblog.com/2010/07/08/in-defence-of-tony-burkes-tweets/)
  • Pro-tip: it’s possible to mute twitter accounts in tweetdeck across the whole app.
• The future of TV
  • People are investing more into their television sets (has there ever been a time in history where they were bolted onto the wall)
  • PDF by Genevieve Bell – review of SA’s digital futures:  http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/lib/pdf/GB15.pdf
  • People are looking to new content providers for the TV content they consume:
    • YouTube
    • ABC iView
    • SBS
• Online video stats for US, July 2010 - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-releases-july-2010-us-online...
  • Yahoo (2nd most popular destination in the USA for online video after YT)
  • Facebook ?! (3rd most popular destination in the USA for online video)

Pretty sure we’ll be talking about this on Tuesday at #ucm.

Looks like the weather deterred all but 2 people from making the journey down to the ABC A One café.

We still talked about a range of different topics:

·         The end of Google Wave development http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

·         Election 2010: politicians have twitter accounts, but are they really using it for any more than broadcast?

·         GetUp are using social media to raise money for election ads https://www.getup.org.au/campaign/Australia_GetsUp_2010&id=1251 – are the major parties doing anything on this scale?

·         Brands are spending more on facebook advertising, but do we even notice the ads? http://econsultancy.com/blog/6383-facebook-expects-its-advertising-revenue-to-explode-this-year

·         Just how good is an iPhone 4 screen compared to a 3G screen? Does it make any difference to ebook reading?

·         Some iPhone / iPad apps: byki (language learning), meebo / palringo / fring (online chat), zinio (magazine reading)