Tag: "campaign"
Hamilton Island To Launch Second Instameet Campaign
After the success of their first campaign, Hamilton Island has announced their plans for a second Instameet to be held from 17-19 May 2013. Earlier in the week, we saw Hamilton Island ambassadors – The Pilgramers release a new video with some behind the scenes footage from their first adventure. The May Instameet will see Instagrammers from the [...]
Read MoreYouth Use Social Media In Campaign To End Poverty
Around 1000 young ambassadors are using social media to create hype and participation in contributing towards the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. Using Twitter and Facebook, the ambassadors are gaining celebrity and political attention, including comedians Wil Anderson, Arj Barker as well as Greens senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. They are [...]
Read MoreHamilton Island Launches Instagram Photo Campaign/Competition
Hamilton Island are undertaking an interesting social media campaign to raise awareness of the island as a holiday destination and also increase their social media presence among other Australian’s, visitors, tourists and general holiday-goers. Hamilton Island is managing this social media campaign internally – which is great to see, and the focus of the campaign will be [...]
Read MoreThe Hyper Revolution of Social Good?
We all saw how the Kony campaign was aimed at helping those most vulnerable, and social media being the driving force behind the spread of an important and powerful message. The kind people at Open-Site.org have shared this video with me showing some powerful pictures and how social media has helped millions of oppressed people [...]
Read MoreBeyond Blue enjoys Social Media Success
Beyond Blue is a national and independent not for profit organisation working to help people with Depression, Anxiety and related illnesses around Australia. Recently, Beyond Blue undertook a social media campaign aimed to increase awareness for Beyond Blue and mental health in general. They also wanted to promote to people there is an avenue to contact when in [...]
Read More4 Tips to a Successful Social Media Campaign
One thing I have noticed with successful social media campaigns over the last year – is the impact ‘power users’ can have on generating the viral lift-off. We know not every social media campaign is going to be wildly successful, but it’s important to understand that you don’t need hundreds of tweets and likes for [...]
Read MoreHow Twitter Effects Change
Following up from our earlier post today on Kyle Sandilands Trending on Twitter … Kyle Sandilands has put his foot in it again and the backlash has been swift. His comments about news.com.au journalist Ali Stephenson, who wrote an article reporting criticism of his TV show have made a big impact on the Australian public, and [...]
Read MoreTourism Australia Facebook campaign going well
In 2008 Tourism Australia created a Facebook fan page for Australia and has now reached a fanbase of 500,000 people. To check out the page, Goto the Facebook Australia page on Facebook. Tourism Australia New Zealand Regional Manager Jenny Aitken says “The Australia Facebook page has been a great platform for relaxed and genuine conversation. [...]
Read MoreFree Social Media Marketing Campaign by SocialMediaNews.com.au
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 [...]
Read MoreSocial Media campaign to reduce smoking rates
The Cancer Council of South Australia has recently been using several social media channels to spread their messages about anti-smoking campaigns. Cancer Council SA CEO, Professor Brenda Wilson said social media has the potential to reduce South Australia’s smoking rate from 20% to 17%. Every year a little over 1100 people die from smoking. The [...]
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