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David Correll

Editor and Founder of SocialMediaNews.com.au. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work and Social Media Management. Connect with me: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook or contact me here. Alternatively, you can send me an email at david@socialmedianews.com.au

Tourism 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. […]

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Internet Explorer gaining Market Share

A latest report by Netshare shows the latest stats in regards to Browser market shares. Internet Explorer has long been in decline, however they are starting to gain back ground – most probably due to the popularity of Windows 7. For a long time Windows Vista failed to impress and it seems during this period […]

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Twitter to put Photos and Videos in your stream

David Correll on July 30, 2010 | TwitPic Twitter TwitVid | Comments (0)

There has been no official statements from Twitter, but they have been conducting tests on some user accounts where Videos and Pictures can be added into a users stream. No doubt Twitter will make a decision soon if the way this as a permanent part of their product. Personally, I don’t think they should. In […]

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Mobile Search Market Share, July 2010 [STATS]

David Correll on July 30, 2010 | Mobile Search | Comments (0)

Pingdom.com has recently conducted a random study of mobile users and their searching behaviour. Google currently has 98.29% market share in mobile search. The shares by Yahoo and Bing in comparison are minimal. Apple devices are probably contributing to around half the Google traffic being generated. Here is the graph from Pingdom. Bing and Yahoo […]

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iPhone 4 plans for Australia

David Correll on July 29, 2010 | 3 Mobile iPhone Optus Telstra Vodafone | Comments (1)

Optus, Telstra, Three and Vodafone have all released their iPhone 4 pricing for the phones launch tomorrow, Friday 30 July. Firstly all carriers will be offering free bumper cases to alleviate the antenna/reception issue experienced by other users around the world. The iPhone 4 will make use of all the existing 3G data networks, nationally. […]

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Mitsubishi Australia goes Social and Viral

David Correll on July 28, 2010 | Advertising Australia social media campaign | Comments (0)

Mitsubishi Motors is promoting a new web advertising campaign. Here is the statement we received from Mitsubishi Australia: This morning thousand and thousands of Australians will receive the news that the ASX has crashed. The ASX, for those who don’t know, stands not only for the Australian Stock Exchange, but also the Active Smart X-over, […]

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Bing Webmaster Tools revamped

David Correll on July 27, 2010 | Bing | Comments (0)

Microsoft’s Bing has revamped their webmaster tools and are now available for site owners to use. A couple new features include; Index Explorer: Allows you to browse through the Bing index in order to see which of your directories and pages have been included. Submit URLs: Lets you to tell Bing which URLs should be […]

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North Ryde Tweet-up, August 4 [EVENT SYDNEY]

David Correll on July 27, 2010 | Business Social Media Events Sydney | Comments (0)

Hi All, Just to let you know Vivienne Storey has arranged another Tweet-up for the North Ryde (and north shore) folks. Details are: Wednesday August 4, from 7:30am Silverchair Cafe, 80 Waterloo Road, North Ryde To RSVP goto the following link: http://www.meetup.com/northrydecoffeemorning/ The North Ryde Tweet-up events are great for business people wanting to learn […]

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MySpace plans Relaunch to Boost user Involvement and Numbers

David Correll on July 27, 2010 | MySpace | Comments (0)

MySpace for a long time was Australia’s most popular social networking site, and still today is a prominent figure in the space. However in mid-2008 Facebook overtook MySpace as the No1 social networking site and has grown by a huge amount since then. Facebook now attracts around 8.7 million unique users in Australia compared to […]

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