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
Microsoft Releases Surface Pricing For Australia
Microsoft Surface Tablets are now available for pre-order via their website. There are going to be 2 models for sale – a 32GB version and a 64GB version. The Australian pricing is as follows: 64 GB with Black Touch Cover AU789.00 incl. GST 32 GB with Black Touch Cover AU679.00 incl. GST 32 GB without […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Launches Disavow Links Tool
In the world of SEO, a lot of it comes down to having a large number of quality links pointing to your site. We are also starting to see social signals influence search rankings but mostly it is your backlink profile. Over the recent Panda and Penguin updates, Google has started to penalise websites with […]
Read More | ShareThe Pathetic Twitter Loser
Twitter is an interesting social media platform – almost all users are public and the service allows us to post short messages, generally without annoying your friends (aka Facebook). Personally, I use Twitter 85% for work, maybe 15% for chatting with colleagues/ acquaintances/ friends. With Facebook, if you dribble pointless updates all day people will start […]
Read More | ShareHamilton 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 More | ShareBoost Your Homepage SEO With This Social Media Share Button Tweak
We have discussed in the past how lots of social media sharing and retweets can boost your websites SEO. Google has admitted they look at social media websites to use social signals as part of their search algorithms. Facebook is a closed system and Google has said many times they can’t access the site properly, whilst Twitter […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Australia Now Has an Official and Verified Account
It seems there is now an official and verified account for Twitter in Australia. You can follow TwitterAU: https://twitter.com/TwitterAU Maybe we can all use this account for support and to draw attention where we see abuse on Twitter to Australian users. Will be interesting to follow.
Read More | ShareHere is what Facebook’s ‘Want’ Button Will Look Like
There has been much speculation over the past couple months about Facebook’s Want button as developers have seen new code introduced into Facebook’s Javascript SDK back in June. For a brief moment of time the button actually rendered live! using the simple code of: <fb:want href=”…”></fb:want> Another blogger in the US, Tom Waddington grabbed some […]
Read More | ShareDo You Use Social Media Whilst Having Sex? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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I’ve been thinking about 2 fun activities that (most of us) enjoy – using social media, and having sex. Is there a place for Facebook and Twitter in the bedroom? So that made me think, can you combine the 2 together? A recent survey shows some interesting results about the number of Australian’s who use social media […]
Read More | ShareApple Releases Inspirational Tribute Video to Steve Jobs
To remember the 1 year anniversary of Steve Jobs death on October 5 2012, Apple has replaced the homepage of their website with this touching video tribute to Steve. Here is the video: CEO of Apple, Tim Cook has also posted this note on the Apple site. RIP Steve.
Read More | ShareFacebook Reaches 1 Billion Active Users
Mark Zuckerberg has just announced on Facebook that the social networking site has reached 1 Billion Monthly Active Users. Here is Mark’s status update after 16min of being posted, interestingly, via mobile. What is also interesting is that Facebook recently made this ‘commercial’, released on October 4, 2012.
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