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
EVENT: Australian Government Social Media Toolkit, April 17-18, Canberra
In Australia we have seen the Government embrace new online tools and social media platforms. In fact many government departments are using Twitter and Facebook for reaching out to Australia’s online audiences, and then using Google Analytics to track website metrics. Ark Group is holding an event in Canberra next week (17-18 April): Australian Government Social […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to buy Instagram for $1 Billion
Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that Facebook will be purchasing photo social network, Instragram for $1 billion USD. This looks to be a talent purchase, but Facebook is going to continue running the Instagram service and will still allow users to post photos to the other social networks like Twitter, Flickr etc. Instagram has 10 […]
Read More | ShareKONY 2012 Video – Part 2
Here is the 2nd Video for the Kony 2012 campaign. The Invisible Children activist group goes on to show us how successful the first video was – and how much this has grown their organisation and support for the removal of the LRA. We also see further promotion for “Cover the night” on April 20, […]
Read More | SharePageRank Scale – Visual
If you are a website owner or webmaster, in the SEO world the PageRank of your website is an important metric to monitor. Google usually updates the PageRank in the Google Toolbar every 3 or 4 months (every quarter). Many webmasters all around the world hang out for the update – it genuinely brings much […]
Read More | ShareDo you use the Alexa Toolbar? [POLL]
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As you may realise - I have some sort of fascination with the Alexa toolbar and Alexa rank in general. In the past we have put together quite a few articles about Alexa: New Alexa Tips Alexa for SEO Page Rank vs Alexa Rank Alexa Rank Train 20 Tips to Increase your Alexa Rank You can see our whole […]
Read More | ShareLetsTalkBiz – Sydney Event Tomorrow night on OUTSOURCING, Tuesday 3rd April – COMP TICKETS UP FOR GRABS!
The City of Sydney is holding a range of innovative business events – aimed directly at business owners and managers to network and shares ideas for growing your company, learning from success stories and chatting to leaders in their field. This initiative is called Let’s Talk Business (or LetsTalkBiz for short) and you can see […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ TV Commercials
Did you know in the United States Google has been running Google+ TV Commercials/ Ads since December 2011? Admittedly, I only found about this on the weekend and was intrigued to see what sort of commercials they were running. Seeing as Facebook is the number 1 social network in every country bar China and Russia […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – March 2012
March is almost over and it is now time to report our monthly social media statistics for Australia. This month there have been some interesting changes in Australia, particularly with Facebook and Pinterest which we explain below. We have also updated our Google Plus User number based on figures released by Google and estimating the […]
Read More | ShareVideo Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 30-03-12
Watch my video blog explaining the most important social media news over the past 2 weeks. Below the video we have links to each topic discussed where you can get further info. Topics Discussed: Google+ Pages to get Google Analytics Google rolls out new +1 Button Google Over-Optimisation Penalty Why are Women better Social Media […]
Read More | SharePinterest Australia [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Tweet The Pinterest trend is continuing globally and it is no different here in Australia. The media and internet community has certainly acknowledged Pinterest can be used for personal and business reasons. We have already discussed Pinterest a fair bit here at Social Media News. Some of our previous articles include: What is Pinterest? How […]
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