Thanks for your interesting and insightful review on 2009. As a UK based Marketer, I was interested in your take on the benefits of Social Media, especially for those smaller businesses that don't have the luxury of large marketing budgets.

As a UK based Marketing and Advertising agency, we have been using Social media to help small businesses fight the recession with varying degrees of success. Although treated with a degree of sceptisim, most of our clienst now have a proactive social media strategies that are really begiining to deliver ROI.

Quite what 2010 will bring is uncertain. We know we will be having an election here in the UK soon and I will sit back and wait to see how Social media will impact on the election as it did with Obama.