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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

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Twitter Activity Feed

on November 10, 2011 | Twitter | Comments (0)
Twitter Activity Feed

Twitter has created a new section on their website, showing the activity and actions that the people whom you follow are taking. This is done via a Tab inside Twitter, next to other tabs like timeline, @ mentions, searches, lists – and the tab is simply called Activity. It looks to have replaced the ReTweets […]

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Blog Monetisation Strategies

on November 10, 2011 | Blog | Comments (1)
Blog Monetisation Strategies

I’ve been looking lately at the best ways to monetise your blogs. Blogging is a great business tool where you can gain a significant following and readership – the hard part is always earning money from your blog. When blogging first start people thought you just create a blog, get readers and slap on some […]

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Personal Branding Considerations

on November 10, 2011 | Social Media | Comments (0)
Personal Branding Considerations

When you are branding yourself online through social media or other digital channels – there are a number of considerations you should think about when posting content, pictures, videos and so on. Fact is that using social media channels to create your personal brand and online identity can be very effective, but we want to […]

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How to write a quality Twitter Bio

on November 9, 2011 | Twitter | Comments (1)
How to write a quality Twitter Bio

There is no doubt Twitter is a powerful business social network, and with it’s close integration with LinkedIn I really find Twitter a useful marketing tool and information source. Fact is this site gets a fair proportion of monthly traffic from my Twitter profile. So what is the best way we can optimise our Twitter […]

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Competitions not Allowed on Google+

on November 9, 2011 | Google Plus | Comments (1)
Competitions not Allowed on Google+

Now that Google+ has launched business pages, and many brands are getting onboard – we look at the best ways to utilise this new social network. On Facebook many companies like to run competitions or deals on their Fanpages and this has worked well. Part of the Facebook Terms of Service is that any competitions […]

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How to Encourage ReTweets

on November 9, 2011 | Twitter | Comments (0)
How to Encourage ReTweets

So you are an active Twitter user – you may have a blog or website and post your content to Twitter, or you may use Twitter in your job to connect with other industry professionals. Search Engines now are placing importance on the number of ReTweets your Twitter status updates get. So if people are […]

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Google Updates PageRank – 8 November

on November 8, 2011 | PageRank | Comments (3)
Google Updates PageRank - 8 November

Google has again updated their PageRank algorithm today, 8th November and this has reflected in the Google PageRank toolbar. I am extremely happy, I have been working on building links hard and this work has paid off. This site has increase from PR3 to PR4, that is good. Another site of mine went from PR0 […]

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Facebook Ad changes roll out to Australia

on November 8, 2011 | Facebook | Comments (0)
Facebook Ad changes roll out to Australia

Facebook has made a tweak to the ads displayed on their site. Specifically on the profile and newsfeed pages, Facebook ads have been moved ads to the top right of the page above the realtime ticker. It seems they may have done this for a number of reasons: Increase presence/impressions Location next to ticker gets […]

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Video: Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg

on November 8, 2011 | Facebook | Comments (0)
Video: Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg last night did an interview with US TV personality Charlie Rose. I always like watching new videos of Mark and seeing his insights. Mark specifically said Google is being competitive trying to build their own ‘little Facebook’ 🙂 Mark and Sheryl go on to explain how they […]

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Google Plus Business Pages released

on November 8, 2011 | Google Plus | Comments (1)
Google Plus Business Pages released

Google has now released business pages on their Google Plus social network, similar in ways to Facebook fanpages. Many brands have already started creating their own Google Plus business pages, and you can set one up here: plus.google.com/pages/create Please check out my page and add it to your circles: https://plus.google.com/112112672579864151020/posts I hope Google consider vanity […]

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