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
Post a link to Twitter?
What happens when you post a link to Twitter? Hopefully your Followers click the link and visit your website! But I have noticed something else going on. Looking through the logs of visitors – I’ve noticed whenever I post a Link to Twitter all these users from Seattle, USA come to the site – not […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Updates Privacy Controls
Facebook has updated their privacy controls to make managing your personal data easier. The area of the site I am talking about is this page: http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy One advantage Google Plus has was the ability to choose who you share a status update with – either your friends, a certain list of people or everyone. Facebook […]
Read More | ShareWordPress Security
WordPress is the most popular blogging software in the world, and ‘out-of-the-box’ the security is pretty good as WordPress are always actively releasing updates that include security enhancements. However there is still further room to secure your WordPress installation, particularly if you are on your own server. If you have a shared host *generally* the […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – August 2011
It that time of the month again where we collate our monthly Social Media statistics showing the most popular social networking sites in Australia. This month and moving forward we will also be reporting Google Plus user numbers in Australia, even if it’s only an estimate at this stage. When collating these statistics we look […]
Read More | ShareFacebook not proceeding with Group Buying?
With Facebook’s huge global reach and launch of Facebook Deals, it has been anticipated that Facebook would roll out their own Group Buying platform. Instead of heading down the ‘deal a day’ route, similar to GroupOn, Living Social etc it looks like Facebook is aligning more to Geolocation services (think Foursqaure, Gowalla) whereby users can […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Monitoring Tools
If you are using Social Media marketing to promote your business and/or those of your clients – you need to be monitoring your performance on a weekly basis (at least) in my opinion. There are many free tools out there, but with them come overly complex data that often doesn’t make your job any easier, […]
Read More | ShareFriday Follow – August 26
It’s that time of the week again, it seems like only yesterday was Monday.. Geez. #fridayfollow #followfriday #FF Our Friday follows for this week are: @losebabyweight1 @abcnews Check them out on Twitter. ABC News beat all other ‘ABC News’ around the world to the best Twitter profile URL. We have a VIP follower next week […]
Read More | ShareWindows7 boosting IE market share in Australia?
It seems as more users are upgrading to Windows7 (or purchasing new PCs) we are starting to see an increase in market share for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. According to global web statistics company, Statcounter – 40% of us in Australia are now using a Windows7 PCs, and there seems to be strong growth month […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine Market Share – July/August 2011
It’s been a little while since we looked at the Search Engine market shares in Australia. We reported some figures in April and wanted to check now and see if there has been any movement. According to the gs.statcounter website these are the Australian market share figures for July 2011: Google – 94.02% Bing - 3.87% Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareSteve Jobs quits as Apple CEO
It has been reported that Steve Jobs has quit as Apple CEO. It seems many national and international news sources are also reporting the news of Steve Jobs’ resignation. Apple have reported that COO Tim Cook will replace Steve Jobs as CEO. Steve Jobs has said when he can no longer fulfill his duties of […]
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