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
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 […]
Read More | ShareVideo: 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 […]
Read More | ShareGoogle 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 […]
Read More | ShareHow to Boost your Klout Score
Many people are getting into the hype of Social influence tool, Klout. The product has created their own niche in the social media community and many people are working hard to increase their social influence AKA Klout score. Klout basically gives you a score out of 100 on how good your social influence is. 100 […]
Read More | ShareNew Alexa Tips
Want to increase your Alexa Rank? Many international webmasters look at your websites Alexa Rank to determine how popular and how much traffic you are getting. We wrote an article sometime ago on 20 tips to increase your Alexa Rank. Today we will look at some new tips that can further boost your rank: 1. […]
Read More | ShareiOS 5.0.1 update due soon
There is no doubt the new iOS5 update has provided iPhone and iPad users lots of great new features (iMessage, Notifications centre, new apps, Twitter integration). However with this update comes a couple annoying bugs that Apple are working hard to address, such as: decreased battery life for iPhone 3GS and 4 users security flaw […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn Stats Update
LinkedIn has just announced that their Q3 revenues for 2011 was $139.5 million USD, seeing strong increases in customers taking up their hiring products across the globe. LinkedIn has also released a number key statistics about their growth: – now 131 million registered members – 180,000 websites have integrated the LinkedIn share button – 40,000 […]
Read More | SharePayPal to launch PayPal Wallet
We previously wrote about how Google is created a new NFC (Near Field Communication) mobile payment solution called Google Wallet. It seems now PayPal is going down the same path by creating their own wallet type device that can be swiped at credit card terminals. There are 2 advantages of this PayPal system over Google […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Agency Update
This site is almost 2 years old now and attracting around 20,000 unique visitors a month (85%+ from Australia) – the support and recognition we have received from the social media community in Australia has been great. After gaining popularity as a news source, including tips and tutorials on utilising social media sites, we created […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Stories Launched
Post sponsor: BuyRealMarketing – views on youtube Twitter has launched a new product called Twitter Stories. Basically the product is showing the ‘Best of Twitter’ – a maximum of 20 heartwarming stories about great things that have come from Twitter. You can check out the site at: http://stories.twitter.com/ So far there are stories about: – […]
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