David Cowling
I am the Founder and Chief Editor of SocialMediaNews.com.au. Feel free to get in touch whatever your comment/enquiry. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work. I am always looking for new business, partnerships, networking opportunities and contributing authors. I welcome you to follow me on Twitter/ Add me on Facebook, connect on LinkedIn or Google +.
Video Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 30-03-12
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Watch my video blog explaining the most important social media news over the past 2 weeks. Below the video we have links to each topic discussed where you can get further info. Topics Discussed: Google+ Pages to get Google Analytics Google rolls out new +1 Button Google Over-Optimisation Penalty Why are Women better Social Media [...]
Pinterest Australia [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Tweet The Pinterest trend is continuing globally and it is no different here in Australia. The media and internet community has certainly acknowledged Pinterest can be used for personal and business reasons. We have already discussed Pinterest a fair bit here at Social Media News. Some of our previous articles include: What is Pinterest? How [...]
Google – 94% of Australian Web Searches
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I was having a look over at Statcounter.com recently and specifically their public reporting tool gs.statcounter.com. This tool lets you see search engine, browser, mobile search stats etc for almost every country in the world. What has always been interesting is seeing the strength of the Google brand in Australia and how basically everyone uses [...]
Timeline for Pages – 10 Facebook Tips you need to know
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The new Timeline layout for Facebook pages is almost ready for rollout to all pages worldwide. We’ve summarised the key points you need to know about the new layout and how to best customise your page. Some users have complained about the new look, there is no point doing this – we need to take advantage of the [...]
Google Adds ‘More by Author’ in Search Results Page
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Google has again updated their Search Results page to give more information about Authors and closer integration with Google Plus. If you have implemented Rel = Author for your website or blog then this information very much relates to you. Rel Author allows your picture and a link to your Google+ profile to show on [...]
Twitter v Linkedin in Australia [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Tweet Business Social Networking Leaders In Australia we have seen the rise of Twitter and LinkedIn as valuable social networking sites for business. Twitter and LinkedIn also have a special relationship which combines Tweets and LinkedIn Shares to power the LinkedIn Today news product. As Australian’s we have embraced both sites and today [...]
Twitter – 140 Million Active Users
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Twitter has just turned 6 years old (on the 21/03/12) and they have shared some interesting new stats with us. To me it seems Twitter has only really taken off in Australia over the last 2 years. What was going on during the previous 4 years? New stats released: 140 million active user (globally) 340 [...]
Nokia Lumia Augmented Reality Video with Timomatic
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Last week we wrote about the campaign in Sydney promoting the new high tech smart phone from Nokia – the Lumia 800. We were lucky enough to see Timomatic as part of the production team helping show off some very neat features from this smartphone. What I am particularly impressed with is how social media [...]
Google Analytics gets new Social Media reports
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As social media marketers – our job has just got a whole lot easier – well at least in terms of measurement and tracking. Google Analytics is rolling our some new social media reports the their suite of web traffic reporting. What specifically is of interest to me is that Google is now analysing how [...]
How to integrate Social Media into your Events
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Your company, business, group or organisation may organise events to bring together your community. Seeing as social media can be used to share information amongst your network and community – today we are going to look at the best practices for integrating social media into the events you organise. In fact you may already be [...]
Why are Women better Social Media Managers?
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When it comes to social media and community management, does gender matter and are women superior to men in honing and engaging with a social audience? Generally it’s best not to get into a debate which gender is better at doing something, but in the case of social media I think there are vast differences in [...]
Free webinar on Social Media & Mobility Best Practices, drawn from Retail – Sponsored by Infosys
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Leading global technology services company - Infosys, is holding a free webinar on Thursday morning talking about Social Media and Mobility Best Practices. This is a thought piece and draws research from social media use in the retail sector – looking at how retail companies have embraced web 2.0 technologies to enhance their businesses. This sort [...]
[POLL] What Smartphone do you use?
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We want to kick off the week with a new social media poll. This time we would like to know what kind of smartphone you are using? iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Nokia or something else? Google has been pushing harder and harder about Android activation numbers, but everywhere I go there still seems to [...]
Google Over-Optimisation Penalty
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Searching the web we often find many websites that rank high on the first page, but do not offer the content and quality we are looking for. These websites may be totally ‘white-hat’ and not doing anything wrong in the eyes of the search engines – they are just so well Search Engine Optimised they [...]
Pinterest Australia, Small Business Chat, Radio Interview [PODCAST]
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Last week I had the opportunity to chat with Amanda Rose from Community Radio Station Alive 90.5 I was on to discuss with Amanda the rise of Pinterest in Australia. We all have to agree that Pinterest has got a lot of hype lately and not just in the US, but also Australia and worldwide. [...]
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Google to Launch Third Party Commenting System, and Vanity URLs
Google has just held a conference in Saudi Arabia and some interesting new information has been released. Blogger, Tech-WD has posted about Google talking about and introducing 2 big changes that centre around Google + in an effort to continue driving more users to their social network, and to also increase the relevance of their [...]
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