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
Facebook poaches William Easton from Google to lead Australia – New Zealand Operation
According to NBR, Facebook has poached Google’s William Easton who headed up Mobile and Social at Google Asia Pacific. Mr William will now lead the Australian and New Zealand Facebook operation, based out of the Sydney Facebook office. We reported earlier in the year when the then Facebook Australia MD, Paul Burrud resigned and in the […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Expected to Open Office in Australia as Executives Fly Out
Twitter Executives are flying out to Australia this week in an attempt to promote the social network down under and gain further support from leading media organisations, sporting bodies, high profile users and technology/ marketing enthusiasts. Mike Brown is the head of international development at Twitter and will be holding a ‘secret Twitter event’ to high light […]
Read More | ShareMeet the Pilgramers – Sydney City – November 26
The Pilgramers will be in Sydney tomorrow, November 26 and are inviting everyone to meet them at the Opera House at 6pm. Here is the photo on Instagram organising the event: http://instagram.com/p/ScclhckISM/ Quote: “The @pilgramers are coming to Sydney and we want to meet you! Come and meet fellow Sydney Inatagrammers for an afternoon of […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Releases Profile Badges For Your Website
Instagram has introduced profiles badges so brands and individuals can link their Instagram profile to their website. Many social networks offer these sort of badges so it’s good to see Instagram also offering such product to their users. To get setup, simply goto http://instagram.com/accounts/badges/ and sign-in with your account details. There are 5 different size badges to […]
Read More | ShareWatch the #Schoolies Fun Unfold on Instagram & Twitter
It’s that time when year 12 students all around Australia celebrate the end of school by having a ‘schoolies’ holiday trip with friends – generally at some tropical Australian location. Usually this means a trip up to the Gold Coast or Byron Bay. Thanks to social media, and particularly Instagram and Twitter – many of […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Hipsters Named For Hamilton Island InstaMeet
Starting late next week, the Hamilton Island Instagram marketing campaign will kick into overdrive as the selected celebrity users, ambassadors and competition winners will head up to the island to start their pilgrimage. So who are these lucky Instagram users heading up to Hamilton Island? These are the high profile ambassadors helping the campaign: Australian fashion […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Lets Users See Unfiltered News Feed
Facebook’s Edgerank is a special algorithm that determines what content is shown in each users news feed. If you are constantly clicking on a particular friends profile or fanpage, Facebook understands your behaviour and is more likely to show these items in your newsfeed in the future. However there is now a way to view your news […]
Read More | ShareDownload the SocialMediaNews.com.au iPhone App
I am happy to announce today that our official iOS App has hit the AppStore. You can now download the SocialMediaNews.com.au iOS App from iTunes. This is a pretty cool app, you can: Keep up to date with our latest news Share our Articles via Facebook, Twitter, or Email Push Notification Support Will be updated […]
Read More | ShareGoogle PageRank Update – 8 November 2012
It seems Google has updated their Toolbar PageRank indicator today, 8th November 2012. I am pretty happy. SocialMediaNews.com.au has gone from PR4 to PR5 Allinstagram.com has gone from PR0 to PR4 – big jump Most of my other smaller sites have remained the same. I have noticed many other publishers in Australia (somewhat similar to […]
Read More | ShareiPad Mini – Old A5 Processor, No Retina Display, 5MP Camera – worth it?
So the iPad Mini is out and it has been sold out in Sydney since release last Friday – 2nd of November. I’ve tried various JB HI FI stores and they are also out of stock. The Apple Store on George steet said they will have more stock this week, but this delay has me […]
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