Category: Australia
Facebook poaches William Easton from Google to lead Australia – New Zealand Operation
According to NBR, Facebook has poached Google’s William Easton who headed up Mobile and Social at Google Asia Pacific. Mr William will now lead the Australian and New Zealand Facebook operation, based out of the Sydney Facebook office. We reported earlier in the year when the then Facebook Australia MD, Paul Burrud resigned and in the […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Expected to Open Office in Australia as Executives Fly Out
Twitter Executives are flying out to Australia this week in an attempt to promote the social network down under and gain further support from leading media organisations, sporting bodies, high profile users and technology/ marketing enthusiasts. Mike Brown is the head of international development at Twitter and will be holding a ‘secret Twitter event’ to high light […]
Read More | ShareMeet the Pilgramers – Sydney City – November 26
The Pilgramers will be in Sydney tomorrow, November 26 and are inviting everyone to meet them at the Opera House at 6pm. Here is the photo on Instagram organising the event: http://instagram.com/p/ScclhckISM/ Quote: “The @pilgramers are coming to Sydney and we want to meet you! Come and meet fellow Sydney Inatagrammers for an afternoon of […]
Read More | ShareWatch the #Schoolies Fun Unfold on Instagram & Twitter
It’s that time when year 12 students all around Australia celebrate the end of school by having a ‘schoolies’ holiday trip with friends – generally at some tropical Australian location. Usually this means a trip up to the Gold Coast or Byron Bay. Thanks to social media, and particularly Instagram and Twitter – many of […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – October 2012
Happy Halloween. Now we have that out the way let’s look at the most popular social networking websites in Australia over October 2012. For the past couple of month’s figures have been fairly static across the board, but we are still seeing some networks experiencing strong growth – mainly Instagram and to some degree Pinterest. […]
Read More | ShareHamilton Island Launches Instagram Photo Campaign/Competition
Hamilton Island are undertaking an interesting social media campaign to raise awareness of the island as a holiday destination and also increase their social media presence among other Australian’s, visitors, tourists and general holiday-goers. Hamilton Island is managing this social media campaign internally – which is great to see, and the focus of the campaign will be […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Australia Now Has an Official and Verified Account
It seems there is now an official and verified account for Twitter in Australia. You can follow TwitterAU: https://twitter.com/TwitterAU Maybe we can all use this account for support and to draw attention where we see abuse on Twitter to Australian users. Will be interesting to follow.
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – September 2012
It might be a public holiday here in NSW, but it’s the first of the month and time for us to compile our latest monthly social media statistics. This month we have added aditional checks and verification of stats by comparing the Google data with that from Quantcast and Comscore – 2 independant and leading […]
Read More | ShareHere is the List of Australian Stores Selling the iPhone 5 on Friday
So do you want to buy the iPhone 5 this Friday? Here is a list of the Apple stores Australia wide (Telstra and Optus stores further down the page) who will be selling the iPhone 5 from Friday morning: ACT Apple Store, Canberra Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street Canberra ACT 2601 (02) 6224 9500 New […]
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