Who bought the famous Scary Washing Machine from auction site Trademe? It was appliance retail chain 100%, and Tango Communication's Zac Pullen tells us how it happened. Here's the original listing on Trademe (check out the comments): http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Laundry/Washing-machines/Top-loader-6kg-under/auction-223309871.htm And here's Scary's new home online: http://blog.100percent.co.nz/

Vodafone loaned us the brand new HTC Magic for a couple of weeks. It's the first handset in NZ to feature Google's Android operating system. What does this mean? Find out.

Suzanne Kendrick is an online community manage for the Grey Lynn 2030 Transition Town Group. She gives helpful advice on how to nurture a community for non-profit organizations.http://www.greylynn2030.co.nz

Simon chats with Adeline Chua, a PhD candidate at Otago University, about her thesis on corporate blogging. How do New Zealand companies form relationships with their customers using blogs? How does a corporate blog affect your brand or corporate communications? Adeline's finding out.http://www.twitter.com/classyadelehttp://www.classyadele.blogspot.com

The highlights from the hugely successful Marketing Now Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Features: Chris Brogan http://www.chrisbrogan.com David Meerman Scott http://www.davidmeermanscott.com Sharon Crost http://www.getbusinesswow.wordpress.com ...plus your invitation to join http://nzsocialmedia.ning.com/

It's one week and one day until Marketing Now hits Wellington. Alongside standout international speakers like Chris Brogan and David Meerman Scott, we'll be hearing from more local speakers like DraftFCB's Stephen Johnson. I asked Stephen for a sneak preview of what he'd be sharing at the conference. Here's what he said!

Sharon Crost is one of the international social media specialists visiting Wellington on April 15th and 16th for the Marketing Now conference. Sharon's all about unleashing your inner superhero, and her session at the conference promises to be extremely interactive! We had the pleasure of talking with Sharon direct from her backyard organic farm in San Francisco.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky is full of stories, statistics, theory - and iwth all that, it's an easy read too. It'll help you understand how social media changes the way people get together - and what this means for your business, cause or idea.

We talk blogging with Mike Heath, GM of Raboplus, who not only blogs, he answers customer comments!We ask Mike:How do you handle negative comments?Does the blog take a lot of resource and time to maintainWhy was the blog set up? This is a great opportunity to hear from a pioneer in a very conservative industry.