In the current financial year, my Department has spent £1808.95 maintaining media and social networking sites which represents software maintenance costs for the complete year. We have no staff dedicated to maintaining media and social networking sites. Any content is provided by staff as part of their normal work.
C&binet, a not-for-profit conference for the global creative industries created by DCMS, had its own website, to generate interest for the conference and to provide a high quality interactive online experience for virtual delegates not attending the conference.
Between November 2008 and October 2009, £20,000 was spent on producing blog content (191 articles in total). This included (but was not restricted to) researching and identifying themes related to the c&binet agenda and tweeting (around 15 tweets per week). Also monitoring c&binet content pick up through Google and on other blogs.
Between November 2008 and October 2009 £3,000 was spent on hosting the entire c&binet website, of which the c&binet blog was one element.