Category: Facebook
Facebook Deals come to Australia
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Facebook Deals have come to Australia and Commonwealth Bank, KFC, 7 Eleven, and Westfield are the first major brands to offer deals. With these deals you generally need to Check-in via Facebook places to the appropriate venue, then you are eligible for a special Facebook Deal. Getting Setup Firstly you want to make sure your Facebook is [...]
A personal network of prying eyes
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Having the advantage of growing up with technological change and software updates faster than any other age group, Generation Y is at the frontier of social media. As a fellow Gen-Y, it comes as no shock that most of my interaction is based online, as all of my friends seemingly live online. Gossip no longer [...]
Facebook Messenger App to replace SMS?
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Facebook has released a new iPhone and Android application in the US – Facebook Messenger, that has the potential to replace SMS. The application will allow you to message any of your Facebook friends, like you would an SMS, except there are no carrier/ telco charges as the messages are sent over the internet. I [...]
How Social Media has penetrated traditional media
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Social networking has an increasing presence in all forms of traditional media. Just turn your Television on to any given News channel during a breaking news story and you’ll be greeted with information from Facebook and Twitter at least every hour. Back in 2001, during the attacks on the Twin Towers, the only way to [...]
The Future of Facebook, 7:30 Report Video
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What is the future of Facebook? Will they get into the lucrative and enormous Chinese market? It looks like Facebook has this goal in mind. How will other social networks like Twitter and Google Plus impact Facebook’s growth past it’s current 750 million members? If you missed the 7:30 Report last night on ABC – [...]
Free Facebook Likes
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Do you want free Facebook likes to your Facebook Fanpage? Of course you do….. Follow the below steps exactly, and you can start getting Free Facebook Likes today. 1. Click the following link to signup to YouLikeHits (page will open in new window): www.youlikehits.com (This site allows members to get Free Likes, Twitter Followers, Digg [...]
Most Popular person on Google + Social Network?
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You may think it would be Google executives Larry Page or Sergey Brin. but nope, incorrect. The most popular person on the Google + Social Network is Mark Zuckerberg. You can check out this profile at the below link and his ‘follow/friend’ count is dwarfing anyone else on the network – https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/posts There are several [...]
Google+ V Facebook
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Google’s new social networking product, Google+ has been released in ‘limited’ beta mode where only a handful of people (ie prob a couple hundreds of thousands of people) got an invite. I did put my email in the signup area but didn’t get an invite. Google’s Vice President of Social, Vic Gundotra has come out [...]
Facebook integrates with Skype and launches video chat
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Facebook has further integrated Skype into it’s platform, now allowing users to video call each other inside Facebook. The feature is being rolled out to all users globally and Australian users are now able to access this feature. Facebook has made a page specifically explaining all the video chat features here: http://www.facebook.com/videocalling I can see [...]
Facebook Australia Infograph – July 2011
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I was looking at the Facebook stats in Australia last night and wanted to put my thoughts in a blog post. Instead of a traditional article I want to create an infograph to display the findings. These stats are correct as of July 2011, and I have got the data from the Google AdPlanner Tool, [...]
Social Media Marketing Tips for Facebook
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We have put together some social media marketing tips to promote your Facebook Fan page and profile. With Facebook’s huge audience of 750 million and growing users, leveraging traffic from this social network should be an important aspect of any online businesses social media marketing campaigns. Social Media Marketing Tips for Facebook Whenever you post [...]
Facebook Bans Aboriginal Rap video, then reverses decision
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South Australian Aboriginal rapper Colin Darcy, stage name: Caper, recently made a song/ video called “How Would You Like To Be Me”. Apparently Darcy was sitting around in his local community when he heard some racial slurs about Aboriginal people that really made him angry. In order to vent his frustration and anger Darcy made [...]
Facebook iPad App coming soon
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There has been several reports floating around the internet that Facebook will finally be launch an iPad specific application. Apparently Mark Zuckerberg has personally overseen and managed the project to create and design the app, which has some highly sophisticated feature. This will be great as the Facebook iPhone app on the iPad, in 2x [...]
Should you Buy Facebook Fans?
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As part of your Social Media Marketing and Policy, you may be looking at Facebook to drive traffic to your product, service or website. A well executed Facebook marketing plan can yeild high viral interaction, so if you have more fans will you have more chance of ‘going viral’? To get more people sharing your [...]
Cut out the middle man….go direct!
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I recently read an article in Business Review Weekly by Mark Bouris, a brilliant businessman with an extremely interesting business history, look into it. In the article he revealed that the strongest business asset he has are his advisors. The article was quite informative and detailed how advisors can help you identify pitfalls within your [...]
SEO your personal Facebook Profile
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I was looking today at the best ways to SEO your personal Facebook Profile. To do this you obviously need to have a publicly findable profile, which generally most people are happy to do. However most of us don’t want to share our personal contact info/ photos/ friends list and wall with the world – [...]
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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