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 +.
LinkedIn IPO, What Happened?!
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LinkedIn yesterday had their initial public offering with shares initially being sold by LinkedIn shareholders to the open market for around $45 USD each. Morgan Stanley and Bank of America were LinkedIn’s underwriters whom managed the deal. It seems they have underpriced the stock considerably as LinkedIn shares are now trading above $80 USD a [...]
Mobile Browser Market Share, Australia, May 2011
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I was having a look today at the market shares for the various Mobile Browsers being used in Australia. The results are interesting, although somewhat fairly expected in my opinion. The iPhone (and iPod touch lead the way with a huge market share). This simply equates to such a easy to use and inviting interface, [...]
Money Blogging: Tips to get approved by BuySellAds Network
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A great way for Bloggers and Publishers to make money, is from Ad Sales Platform – BuySellAds.com. BuySellAds is an online marketplace for buying and selling Website Advertising. Usually this is in image display advertising but there is also the option for text based ads. The most popular image display ads purchased and sold are [...]
Social Media SEO
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So what is the best way to Search Engine Optimise your Social Media Profiles? Lets look at the 3 most prominent social networks we are using for Business: 1. Facebook (pages) 2. Twitter 3. LinkedIn Facebook For the purpose of this exercise, we will look at optimising your Facebook Fanpage. When people search Facebook, instead [...]
How to get People Reposting your Content on Facebook & Twitter
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If you are a blogger, news publication, brand, business or like sharing your content via Social Media – using Facebook and Twitter is a great way to attract new readers and visitors to your website – and it’s free. Fact is Facebook and Twitter now has a huge percentage of internet traffic – traffic that [...]
Microsoft Purchases Skype for $8.5 Billion
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Microsoft has just announced their purchase of VOIP software, Skype for $8.5 Billion USD. It is surely expected that Microsoft will closely integrate Skype with Microsoft Office, Windows Phone, XBox Live, Kinect, and no doubt various other Microsoft platforms. Skype currently has over 660 Million accounts globally and over 150 million regular users. Windows Live [...]
Debugging WordPress
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If you are running a WordPress installation and are using many 3rd party plugins – it’s probably worth your while as part of regular WordPress maintenance to Debug your site. Using a combination of plugins often causes the doomed Blank White WordPress pages, category links not working, and sitewide searching often doesn’t work as well [...]
Claim your Facebook Email Address Now
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Facebook previously started rolling out ‘Facebook Messages’ to many US users. This enabled Facebook users to create and claim their own personal Facebook.com email address. Many Australian’s are now reporting that they can also access this feature as Facebook rolls out this change to other countries. If you would like to claim your on free [...]
It’s All about SEO, Free Do Follow Links – New SMN AU Advertiser
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These days, I’d say the single most important aspect of Search Engine Optimisation is the amount of incoming links to your website. You could have a poorly constructed site, with the meta and title tags blank or filled out incorrectly – but if you have a large amount of incoming links this will negate most [...]
Twitter buys TweetDeck
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There are rumors floating around that in the next couple days Twitter will announce their purchase of TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a mobile application that allows users to easily manager their Twitter stream, timeline, @replied and messages – and was one of the first 3rd Party Mobile applications for Twitter. Twitter themselves were very slow to [...]
Twitter Introducting New Advertising Product?
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Is Twitter introducing a new advertising product onto their site? If you sign-in to Twitter you will see a text based link on the right hand side of the page, below the trending topics section. Have a look: Twitter introduced Sponsored Tweets some time ago, and both Google and Bing are paying Twitter a fee [...]
Social Media Statistics Australia, April 2011
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Ok so it’s that time of the month again to have a look at the most popular Social Media and Networking websites in Australia. For your information you can find all the monthly statistics I am collating on my Social Media Statistics page. Also, should you be interested – you can check out the figures [...]
Work with Us, and we’ll Work with You
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OK so my post for today is a little off topic from general Social Media News. Over the time I have built this blog – I have enjoy connecting with members of the Social Media Community in Australia. Now SocialMediaNews.com.au has several Contributing Authors across varying backgrounds and interests in Social Media. With unique visitors [...]
Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube Founders
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Yahoo has now sold their social bookmarking service, Delicious, to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. There has been a fair amount of speculation that Yahoo was looking to sell off Delicious as they continually withdrew resources from the Delicious project. Regardless the site continues to get high traffic (Alexa rank: 239) and it [...]
WordPress 3.1.2 now released
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Hi All, Just a quick update to let you know WordPress has released Version 3.1.2 of their blogging software. This release is a security update for all WordPress users. Updates include: – Fix tag bugs – Fix user query bug when ordering by post count – Fix contributor level vulnerability – Fix title bug when [...]
My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS and I also run my own 
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So you have a blog and enjoy posting articles on a frequent basis – but how can you leverage the power of Social Media to get more readers and traffic to your website? Position yourself as a subject matter expert There is no doubt the internet has changed the way we go about our shopping. [...]
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