Social Media NZ Weekly Wrap-Up 20/12/2010

The Social-Lite: Episode 5 from Social Media NZ on Vimeo.

We are officially 5 days away from Christmas, so I hope everyone has beaten the shopping rush and prepared early this year! Here's what to expect from us in the coming days until we usher in the New Year:

• We'll be releasing a series of "2011 Expectations/Trends" posts from our regular and guest contributors, with our writers tasked with gazing into their crystal balls and looking at the world of social media in 2011.
• We're really excited about Gisborne's upcoming Rhythm and Vines festival. We will be travelling along to this year's festivities to cover the event from a social media perspective. We'll also be interviewing top artists on their use of technology and social media - it should be an exciting way to end the year!
  
  Here are this week's top social media and technology happenings:
  • This week we saw Facebook surprise us all with a barrage of new features. The catch? The features wasn't meant to be released just yet.
  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine "Person of the Year".
  • This week saw Yahoo! laying employees off, which resulted in Del.icio.us parting ways to do their own thing.

  Interesting post of this week:

  • A Swedish television network released a WikiLeaks documentary, where they tracked WikiLeaks from humble beginnings through to Julian Assange's ego getting the best of him.
  • Peter Shankman of PeterShnkman.com took Klout scores to a whole new level, throwing an exclusive party based on an individual's Klout score.
  • With Dell launching the world's second social media command center, we wondered if more businesses should be upping their social game?

  News you may have missed this week:

  • Twitter revamped their business site, where they have opened up promoted tweets and accounts functionality to all businesses.
  • Finally, YouTube launched a revamped homepage.

  Video of the week: How social media, web and mobile could tell the story of the Nativity.

You can connect with the lovely host of The Social-Lite Jill Clark on these platforms:Twitter: @Clark_JillWebsite: JillClark.biz