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**Social Media Effects Business**

**//Every business needs to consider the environment they are operating in, and that includes the virtual environment.//** ** Task One **  **//Watch the videos//**   Watch the following videos and make some notes on the impact social media has on businesses. Consider these questions when watching the videos: **Video 1: **
 * What social media is used by businesses and how?
 * How has social media improved businesses ability to market themselves?

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( SayItVisually, 2010 )

**Video 2:**

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( Socialnomics09, 2011 )

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( Xplanevisualthinking, 2009 )

**Task Two**  **//Group Discussion//** In your group identify ways ways in which social media impacts on the business organisation in terms of the customer, the owner, and the community by completing a Consequence Map.

Print the consequence map, or copy the file, to your portfolio.

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**Checkpoint**

**Before you move on you should have added the following to your portfolio.**
 * **A Consequence Map identifying the ways social media impacts on a business.**