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Welcome to the latest edition of #3Questions about Social Media. I’m in Finchley, it’s a bit grey today, but I’m here with Stuart Harris, the Friendly Accountant.

Hi there, good morning, Max. Nice to see you again.

Wonderful of you to make the time. Thank you very much, Stuart. Before we start anything else, you are a Chartered Certified Account and Registered Auditor.

That’s it.

And you go under the name of ‘The Friendly Accountant.’ Before we go anywhere else, why ‘Friendly Accountant’?
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Welcome to another ‘#3Questions About Social Media’ interview. We are back at Vapiano, and I’m here with Jane Tyson. Jane, welcome and thank you so much for participating.

Thank You.

Jane, we’ve had this discussion before, and I find it difficult to identify what you’re doing. You’re very entrepreneurial, you’re an educator. What else would you like to add as what you’re doing?

I guess underlying all I do is encouraging people to be creative and exploring resilience through creativity.

You also have a series on random dialogues where you interview people. And, it’s a secret, but I was interviewed as well. Jane, now to the famous three questions about social media: What are the best, most effective social media platforms that you are using for yourself?
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Today I’m in beautiful, sunny Pinner with Julian Knopf of Gander Photography. Actually, Julian runs not just Gander Photography but another photography business as well. He’ll explain it all to us. And he is also a great social media user.

Julian, you told me that you have two different photography businesses. What is the most effective, most impactful social media platform for you?
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Welcome to Episode 5 of 3 Questions About Social Media with William Buist, business mentor and founder of First Friday, the business networking meeting he has organised for over a decade.

William, what is the most effective and impactful social media platform that you are using for your business?

I use three, Max, and thank you for inviting me to take part in this.
I use Facebook mostly to talk to my close network; people that I know well; people that know me well, my clients some of them and my friends and family.
I use LinkedIn as a way of reaching out to a wider network of business people.
And I use Twitter for more social conversation; short, sharper interventions in debates, in conversations, and just keeping up with what’s going on.

And what type of posts do you publish? Is it images? Just text? Video? Or whatever.
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Jane Tyson invited me to participate in her Random Dialogues and to edit the video myself.

It was fun all the way.

The main questions remain, though:
Do you have a purpose in your life? In your work? If so, what is your purpose?

And how did you find it?
Did it hit you over the head one day? Did it creep up on you? Did you sneak up on it?

Come and join the discussion in my Facebook group. I’d love to hear from you.

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Tammy Cowling, welcome to the #3Questions About Social Media interview. You are a change manager, and my question to you is:

What is the most effective, most engaging social media platform for you in your business?

At the moment, I’m quite agnostic about all the different on platforms that we’ve got.
I used to use LinkedIn a lot. I used to use Facebook a fair bit.
But what I’m finding is the functionality on those is changing, and I haven’t quite found the right one yet. So we’re plugging in the gaps with Instagram, with WhatsApp, with Meet Up, with a whole range of things because we’ve got a whole suite now to try and get back what we used to have sort of five years ago.

Did you ever, that question obviously has to come from me, did you ever use video on your social media platforms?
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Tonight, I’m here with Mike Turner, the founder of the Six O’clock Club Meetup. We are just behind London Bridge near The Shard, and I’m going to ask him the famous #3Questions about Social Media.

Mike, welcome. You are really heavily into social media, Facebook, LinkedIn, all sorts of thing.
What’s the most effective, most engaging online platform for you?

For me personally, its Facebook.

Why is Facebook better for you than any of the others?
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Welcome back to the 3 Questions About Social Media interview.
Today, I’m with Anne Iarchy in Finchley, which used to be Margaret Thatcher’s constituency.
Anne is a weight loss coach and a prolific user of social media.

Anne, you’ve been using social media for quite a while. Which one is the most effective, the most engaging medium that you use?
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Welcome to the first in my new series of interviews, 3 Questions About Social Media.
What is it about?
It’s very simple and straightforward. I’ll be talking to people who are avid and successful users of social media for their businesses.
I’ll ask them 3 simple questions about how they use social media for their businesses.
All this will be no theory, just facts straight from the practitioner’s point of view.
There won’t be any techie talk either. I’ll create a separate video about the technology I use to create this series, and I promise it’s nothing advanced or even sophisticated (spoiler alert: it’s my smartphone). For any questions and discussions, join us in my Facebook group VideoforProfessionalServices.

And now, the #3Questions interview with Jay Blake:
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