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
What is Pinterest?
A new social media website is taking the world by storm – http://pinterest.com/ According to Alexa.com Pinterest is currently the 110th most popular website in the world, with a but on your average weekday is around the 60th most popular website in the world – so it’s getting HUGE traffic, particularly in the USA. What […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Updates PageRank – February 7
Google has today updated their PageRank metric that is shown in the Google Toolbar. A number of my sites have moved up in rank, which is great. However the large amount of incoming links I have picked up for this site hasn’t made any change to my PageRank. I am still on PR4 which is […]
Read More | ShareReminder: Online E-Business Marketing Course, UoN
Hello All, Just a reminder that the Online E-Business Marketing course by University of Newcastle, GradSchool is starting soon. The next intake starts 13 Feb and goes through to 23 March (6 week course). If you are looking to improve your online marketing skills this course will give you the tips and tactics, with the […]
Read More | ShareSEO – White Hat – Grey Hat – Black Hat
In the SEO world, you may often hear the terms: White Hat Grey Hat Black Hat But what exactly does this mean? White Hat SEO White Hat SEO refers to legitimate and ‘proper’ ways to search engine optomise your website. This is ethical SEO and utilises tactics allowed by the search engines such as: Internal […]
Read More | ShareEvent: Social Media Marketing in Tertiary Education, Melbourne, Feb 22-23
Criterion Conferences has organised an interesting Social Media Event in Melbourne: Measuring and Optimising Social Media Marketing in Tertiary Education. The conference looks at several aspects of social media promotion: 1. Driving student recruitment through your social media strategy 2. Using social media as a customer service tool 3. How to handle negative comments on […]
Read More | ShareLet’s Put it in Perspective – Market Capitalisation
I have always found it interesting to follow certain technology companies on the stock markets, but now that Facebook is preparing for IPO this just got a whole lot more interesting. I also like to keep tab on our large Australian companies, not so tech related. How do these Rank? Rank Company Market Cap (billions […]
Read More | ShareFacebook files for $5 Billion IPO
It has finally happened – Facebook has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise $5 billion USD. In the process many of Facebook’s employees will be able to sell their own shares in the company – as a result many will become millionaires. This is a conservative IPO for Facebook as […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – January 2012
Here is our monthly report showing the latest users numbers and statistics for the most popular social media sites in Australia. As per previous reports, all the figures below are Unique Australian Visitors to the site (UAV’s), or an average between the UAV’s and user numbers reported by reputable sources. Social Media Statistics Australia – […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates Letter to Steve Jobs
There are several report floating around about a letter Bill Gates wrote to Steve Jobs as he was dying. Apparently the letter meant so much to Steve Jobs he kept it by his bed in his last days alive. Mr Gates hasn’t released many details about the letter but has said: “I told Steve about […]
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Facebook – 845 Million Users
We have just reported that Facebook has filed their IPO. According to the SEC filing, Facebook has given us some new stats, which I’ll summarise: Facebook now has 845 million users signed up to the site – on track to 1 billion users this year? 483 million daily active users 2.7 billion Likes and Comments […]
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