Archive for May, 2010
Social Media Club Sydney Event, 24/05: Using LinkedIn to build your business and your professional brand
On the 24th of May, Social Media Club Sydney are holding an event – More than networking – Using LinkedIn to build your business and your professional brand with guest speakers Cliff Rosenberg (Managing Director LinkedIn Australia & New Zealand) and Michael Field (strategic marketing consultant). They will be discussing how social sites such as […]
Read More | ShareFacebook social plug-ins on over 100,000 sites after 1 month
Last month Facebook launched its new social plug-ins at its F8 developer conference. This is part of the company’s Open Graph initiative and a huge amount of sites have rushed to implement these features. It is estimated over 100,000 sites have now implemented the Facebook social plug-ins. Facebook comments: “It’s only been two and a […]
Read More | ShareTourism Victoria starts social media campaign
Tourism Victoria has started a social media campaign to promote their online guide Lost and Found – www.wearelostandfound.com.au The campaign aims to get people participating in the online publication – to add their views of various city venues, such as shopping hotspots, bars, restaurants, cafes, nightlife, tourist attractions and cultural events in the city. Contributors […]
Read More | ShareYelp security puts Facebook user details at risk
Yelp, a social networking, user review, and local search engine website is one of only 3 websites so far to be eligible for Facebook’s highly controversial and anticipated Instant Personalisation feature. A security issue has come to light where a malicious site could harvest a Facebook user’s name, email, and data shared with everyone on […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to launch location based features, hush hush for now
Facebook will soon be launch location-based feature, but the company has denied reports that it is already working with marketing partners on the product. We dont really know any more than that at the moment however the code for this feature is available on the touch.facebook.com site. Facebook has release several statements in regards to […]
Read More | ShareGoogle looking to hire ‘Head of Social’
Google has hired an executive recruiter to look for a ‘Head of Social’ chief. Google has been particularly slow in the social front. Services such as Orkut never took off, and Google Buzz caused much criticism post launch. According to reports this position has been given 2 important tasks to seek out: 1. building an […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Business Centre is coming
Twitter has confirmed that they are currently BETA testing their ‘Twitter Business Centre’. Using this feature as a business allows the following: – create a customer Business Twitter profile page – Add a ‘verified account’ badge to your business profile – Allow multiple users to tweet from your business account. Twitter is also allowing business […]
Read More | ShareTwitter bug lets you control your followers
The is a bug in the Twitter system that lets users decide who is following them. It has been reported that writing ‘(tweet) accept (username)” then the (username) starts following you immediately. This has been confirmed by many Twitter account now following an increase number of users who have not been manually followed. Many people […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn now 7 years old
Just last week LinkedIn turned 7 years old, birthday time! LinkedIn was launched May 2003, which makes it older than several other social media/networking sites. As we mentioned LinkedIn stats recently – 65 million users have signed up to the service, and around 1 million in Australia. There have been estimates of LinkedIn’s value in […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Mining supertax gaining support, via Facebook
Kevin Rudd’s Super Profit Tax for mining giants is starting to gain more popularity with the general public and rightly so. Australians want to benefit from the natural resources in our country – not giving all the profit to Global Mining companies. So much so, that The Australian Workers’ Union have created a Facebook group […]
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