Category: Social Media
22% of Time Online Spent With Social Media
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Over the last year, the rise of social media has grown at record speed. And.. Australia still holds the number 1 spot of time spent on social media sites. Other stats worth noting: – average US worker spends almost 5.5 hours a month visiting social network sites from the office, either as personal or business [...]
Microsoft’s Head Of Sales Blames Social Media site for Low Online Ad Prices
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Keith Lorizio head of Microsoft’s US sales has said that Facebook and other social networks are driving down the price of online ads, particularly on a Cost Per 1000 impressions basis. Social networks generally have high user usage and therefore a much larger number of page views to regular sites. These social media sites have [...]
Barbie Joins Foursquare as Celebrity Guest
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Barbie doll has joined Foursquare (and also Twitter) so promote the new Video Girl ambition Barbie. This new Barbie will be able to record video which you can download and edit on your computer + all the original things Barbie can do. Barbie will be a celebrity Foursquare user to entice location-based scavenger hunts. These [...]
How to Build Relationships Beyond Social Media
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With the rise of social media is has become easier for us to all exchange information and network online. Once initial contact has been made how do you keep the dialogue flowing? We need to gain control off social media sites and entice our prospects to interact with us in different ways. Here are 3 [...]
Australian Businesses Using Social Media to gain new Customers and Clients
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Social networking has proven its success around the world in being a useful marketing tool for businesses and organisations. Australian internet users are also some of the highest users of social meida – we actually top the ranks globally in time spent on social media sites at around 8 hours per month for an average [...]
User Donations helping Reddit
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Social Bookmarking Service, Reddit, has been in a spot of financial troubles lately and they asked their users if they could support the site with contributions. This has been a success with Reddit after about 6000 members donated to their cause. The donations will goto employing new staff and keeping the service reliable and online. [...]
Free Social Media Marketing Campaign by SocialMediaNews.com.au
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The team at SocialMediaNews.com.au is proud to announce an additional new service offering being launched – Free Social Media Marketing Campaigns for Australian business, organisations, companies, government department, educational institutions, charities, not-for-profits and so on. The service is also available for select international businesses. If you don’t know where to start or don’t have the [...]
Video meets Social Media: Australia, Vidcall
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A new website is launching in Australia soon, Vidcall, than is the place where Social Media meets video. The site is: www.vidcall.com.au which is the Australian version of vidcall.com Site will be launching in Australian in a few weeks and it looks like they have already got an iPhone application. The service set you up [...]
Australia and the Social Web
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As Australian’s we spend more time on social media sites than any other country in the world – at around 8 hours per month for the average user. But what sort of social networking activities are we getting involved in and to what extent? Australian social media figures: – Approximately 5 million Australian users of [...]
Social Media and Online Video [STATS]
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Over the past couple years the use of video across the web has exploded. Video used to be a technical and ‘hard to create’ media – but now with an abundance of online tools it is easier than ever for regular internet users to create and watch videos online. Social Media Video statistics to take [...]
Australians getting more involved in Social Media
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Over the past year in Australia users going to social media sites and forums have increase 36.1% over the year. This means that social media usage is overtaking search engines as the most visited web destination by Australians. Facebook has benefited more of our adaption to social media. Facebook accumulated 56.4% of all social networking [...]
Google rolling out Facebook competitor – Google Me
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There have been several reports around the net that Google is going to be releasing their Facebook competitor soon called ‘Google Me’. Yahoo already has a twitter like service – Yahoo MeMe which sounds a little the same. Kevin Rose the Founder of Digg tweeted the following statement: Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch [...]
How does the world spend its time online? [statistics]
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As Global internet users how are we spending our time online? Here are some interesting statistics for you to think about: – 22% of our time is spent on social networking sites – 42% of our time is spent viewing websites – 36% is other activities such as email, web searches, commerce, shopping. On a [...]
Why CFOs and Lawyers arn’t using social media?
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CFOs and Lawyers have displayed a slow uptake when it comes to using social media for marketing and promoting their services/expertise. Many think it is out of their scope/desires. Some financial and legal people think the leads and contacts they get from social media would be of no value. Many are just too busy to [...]
Orgasm over Social Media
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What the?? Do you love Social Media so much that it gets you hot and steamy, maybe even to orgasm? I bet not.. This is getting weird.. Relax.. But I bet there are some absolute Social Media nuts who find social media orgasmic? Maybe i am just writing all this as an excuse to show [...]
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