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What would you get if you had £500 to spend on a social media toolkit? (hardware)

I'm putting together a guide for the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council on using social media as part of a youth exchange, and I wanted to include in there an idea of what sort of social media kit you could put together if you had £500 to spend.

Below is the list I've put together so far, but I was surprised to find it only comes to £440, and I think covers all the essentials I use in day-to-day social media work.

What would you add? What would you social media toolkit look like?



A mini-laptop such as the Eee-PC is small enough to transport around with you – but powerful enough to handle small video clips, photo editing and blog writing.

With a battery life of up to 10 hours, it can be ideal for taking on an exchange.


http://tinyurl.com/y9fc8aj

Available from around £250.


A flip video camera can take high quality video clips and has an in-built USB connector and video editing software.

Using the built in memory it can record up to 2 hours of footage, before you need to copy the video to your mini-laptop for editing and
uploading.


http://tinyurl.com/yegl3ro >

Available from £90.



A basic digital camera for keeping a photographic record of the exchange.

Most digital cameras can also take short video clips as well, but lower quality than the flip camera.


http://tinyurl.com/ycxv38j

Available form £60



A pay-as-you go mobile broadband adaptor can plug into your mini-laptop to give you Internet access wherever you can get a mobile phone signal (in the UK).

http://threestore.three.co.uk/

From £20 to buy, and then £10/top-up for pay-as-you-go.



A network cable is useful if the laptop you bought has an RJ45 connector.

When wireless Internet access is not available, this will let you plug into a network.


http://tinyurl.com/ybfkq3u

Available from £1.50


Batteries and Charger essential for keeping the flip camera and digital camera in action.

http://tinyurl.com/y8sqf2q >

Available from £10



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Diane Law Comment by Diane Law on January 5, 2010 at 10:36am
May be a voice recorder (or whatever they are called) with a potential to create podcast?

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