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
Video Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 22-12-11
Here is our weekly video blog highlighting the latest social media developments over the last week. Plenty of Facebook changes and site enhancements, and also some updates from Google Plus. Thanks for watching. Topics Discussed: Facebook Timeline released FB iPhone App gets Timeline Facebook Suicide Help Service Google Plus December Updates Facebook Newsfeed Ads Funny […]
Read More | ShareVodafone warned by ACMA
As a long time Vodafone customer I’d have to say I am often let down by poor network service. It gets very frustrating when at that critical moment you need to call someone urgently, check your email or find something on the internet only to be let down by – No Signal. Now I am […]
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Facebook Newsfeed Ads
Facebook will from January 2012 start showing Sponsored Stores in users’ Newsfeeds. The stories will be marked as sponsored so there is no illusion as to what they are. On various tech blogs there does seem to be some negative comment about Facebook’s move to do this. But we really need to look at the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus December Updates
Google has recently made a number of useful changes to their social networking site, Google+. Stream Control You may have various different circles in your Google+ account, eg Family, Friends, Colleagues, etc etc. You now have the option to decide how much of a particular circles updates get into your stream. Anything from ‘everything’, to […]
Read More | ShareFB iPhone App gets Timeline
Facebook have now updated their iOS iPhone application to support the new Timeline profile layout. Timeline is not yet available for the iPad application, but this is coming shortly. The Timeline profile layout on the iPhone really does look fantastic, check it out for yourself. Around 57 million people use the Facebook iPhone application on […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Timeline is here!
The new Facebook Timeline profile layout is now here and available for Australian users. We are still playing around with it and will have some more info for you soon. In the meantime here are the steps to active Timeline on your profile: 1. Login to Facebook 2. Goto http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline 3. Click ‘Get Timeline’ in […]
Read More | ShareVideo Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 15-12-11
Here is my video blog going recapping the most important social media news over the past week – 15 December 2011. Topics of discussion: New Twitter Redesign rolls out Twitter releases New Tweet, Follow Buttons Instagram – iPhone App of the Year Foursquare Statistics – December 2011 WordPress 3.3 Now Released WordPress releasing their own […]
Read More | ShareSelling Links Violates Google Policy
I came across an interesting article in the Google Support directory that discusses Paid Links. Specifically it says: Buying or selling links that pass PageRank violates Google’s Webmaster Guidelines Google goes on to say such practices of selling links will negatively impact that site in Google search results. There are actually many text link brokers […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ Introduces Facial Recognition
Facial Recognition has been added to the Google+ social network as an opt-in feature. To enable this feature on your Google Plus account go to your settings page: https://plus.google.com/settings/plus Facebook some time ago added Facial Recognition to their site, but this feature was opt-out and could automatically recognise your face and those of your friends […]
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