Archive for November, 2011
SocialShout! – Rewards from Social Networking
How much time and effort have you put into building your social network and general social media presence? You know, searching and inviting all your friends to join you ; inundating them with endless (and often mindless) updates on what you’re doing, where you’re doing it and who you’re doing it to ; uploading pictures […]
Read More | ShareHow 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 More | ShareJournalism & Social Media: How they work together
In today’s constantly developing technological world, the link between social media and journalism is becoming stronger than ever. Such collaborations can be witnessed through news and social media platforms, such as the recent implementation of Yahoo! News’s content sharing option for Facebook, which allows users to share with their friends what news articles they have […]
Read More | ShareKyle Sandilands trending on Twitter
After Kyle Sandilands publicly and personally attacked a female journalist, it seems sponsors of the 2day FM Kyle and Jackie O are leaving. So far it seems to be: Holden – http://twitter.com/#!/holdennews/status/139216064453165056 The Good Guys – http://twitter.com/#!/TheGoodGuysAU/status/139234472431333376 Vodafone – https://twitter.com/#!/Vodafone_AU/status/139278137048571904 This morning Kyle Sandilands is trending on Twitter as public outcry is disappointed in his […]
Read More | Share4sqwifi iPhone App gets you Free Wifi
A new social mobile network is upon up. Yes a new one. Built on the Foursquare API, 4sqwifi is an iPhone app that lets you share Wifi Hotspots and their passwords with any member of the public. This is particularly useful if you are visiting a new city and need free Wifi access. What I […]
Read More | ShareHow to Blog Faster
Let’s face it – unless your blog is making thousands of dollars a month, spending an hour to write a blog post is not an efficient use of your valuable time. They key to many successful blogs is being able to produce a lot of useful content, quickly. From my research – over 90% of […]
Read More | ShareWordPress 3.3 Coming Soon
WordPress has changed the way web content is created and blogging as know it. WordPress have been working hard on their 3.3 version release, which is expected to be released at the end of November. There are a number of new features in version 3.3, the most useful being: 1. Redesigned Admin Bar 2. New […]
Read More | ShareThe #QantasLuxury Fail – Part 2
You often hear the term: Social Media Backlash Yesterday we reported on the bigtime #QantasLuxury fail. It seems Qantas is still trending on social media (particularly Twitter) with plenty of innovative and smart alec mocking from users, further rubbing salt into the wounds on how bad this social media disaster has become for Qantas. Have […]
Read More | ShareThe #QantasLuxury Fail
After the recent social media PR failures of the union pay discussions and resulting grounding of their fleet, Qantas today tried to recover some online brand reputation. And crashed and burned. Qantas launched the #QantasLuxury campaign, encouraging twitter users to tweet their luxury inflight ideas on the hashtag to win one of 50 $30 prize […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Messenger Desktop App – Win7
Facebook is beta testing a new Windows 7 Desktop Application that lets you chat to your friends without being on the Facebook.com website. Similar to Windows Live Messenger, the application will let you: – Message and Chat with your Facebook friends – Get notifications as they happen on Facebook, eg someone liking your photo – […]
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