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
Spread.us – Social Content Distribution
I have come across a new social application for publishers that helps push your content to the social web. The site is called spread.us and allows your followers and website readers automatically share to Facebook and Twitter your new content everytime you publish an article. The service has been around for over a year but […]
Read More | ShareGoogle rolls out new +1 Button
Do you have the Google +1 button on your blog or website? Google is rolling out a new design for the +1 button as they bring the design and layout inline with the newer style Google Plus logo. To explain simply, the new Google Plus logo has been for awhile this: So now […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn reaches 3 Million Australian Members
LinkedIn has just sent an email out to all their Australian members – letting us know that there are now 3 million Australian’s registered to LinkedIn. According to Google Adplanner, in February 2.2 million unique Australian visitors went to the LinkedIn site. So whilst LinkedIn has reached this 3 million milestone, how many are active […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ Pages to get Google Analytics
Over the coming weeks it looks like tracking and measurement tools like Google Analytics will be added to the Google+ social network. This is a good move by Google to provider further tools to businesses using their social network and help them understand the impact Google+ has on their social media marketing. As I have […]
Read More | Share[POLL] Which Social Media site drives the most Traffic to your Website?
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Today we are conducting a poll to see which social networks are most successful at driving traffic to your website. Maybe have a look at your Google Analytics account and see which social media site refers the most traffic through to your website, clients site, or your blog. Every niche is different, some media sites may benefit […]
Read More | ShareInstagram for Android
Finally Instagram for Android is almost here. Co-Founder, Kevin Systrom has confirmed at SXSW that the Android version of their popular photo social network is almost here and in the Androir Marketplace (or Google Play as it has recently been re-branded). Systrom also went on to mention that Instagram has hit 27 million registered users and engagement levels […]
Read More | Share5 Tips to build up your Email List
One thing that is still very much relevant in today’s internet marketing is building a high quality email list. For a long time I wasn’t really interested in building my email list – I thought email marketing was a thing of the past and just concentrated on SEO and Social. How wrong I was. Looking at my […]
Read More | ShareGowalla officially shut down
Mobile geo-location app, Gowalla has now official shut down. We reported sometime ago that Facebook purchased Gowalla - mainly as a talent purchase. Gowalla staff members and CEO Josh Williams have been busy working on the new Facebook Places API. You can see the blog post from Facebook here, which goes on to explain that the API […]
Read More | ShareWelcome to the 1K Club
Today marks kind of a special day for this blog. This will be the 1000th post on the site. I started this blog back in early 2010 and started posting articles in May 2010. Why did I start socialmedianews.com.au? Well there were a couple of reasons: 1. Social Media was starting to gain real traction […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+, 50 Million Daily Active Users, 100 Million Monthly
Google’s vice president for engineering - Vic Gundotra has released some interesting new information to the public about their Google+ social network. We all keep a close eye when Google releases user number about + so we can see growth. Around January 20 their social networking site reached 90 million users. In summary Mr Gundotra released the […]
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