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
SEO – 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 […]
Read More | ShareDefining your Social Media Plan
So you have been tasked to create a Social Media Plan for your company, business or client – but where do you start? I will outline a very simple process I run through every time I am looking to create a social media plan for a new business or product: 1. Research Before you even […]
Read More | ShareTwitter to start censoring Tweets
As Twitter moves into more and more countries around the world, Twitter will begin censoring content and tweets to certain country users. For example in Australia, United States, UK etc we have the freedom to say anything we pretty much like, however in certain countries the freedom of speech is somewhat restricted and if an […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ now open to under 18s
Google has opened up their Google Plus social network so teanagers aged 13-17 are now allowed to use the site. Previously Google banned any users under 18 from using the website. Google has also added increased security and privacy controls for users aged under 18. So are we going to see lots of teens singing […]
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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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