Category: Australia
Social Media Statistics Australia – October 2011
Today is Halloween, October 31st! but its still that time of the month where we collate our monthly Social Media statistics for the most popular social media and networking sites in Australia. As per previous months, when compiling this report we look at actual users numbers if officially reported (Google released official stats on Google […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Internet industry contributes $50 billion to GDP
According to research by Deloitte Access Economics, the Internet industry in Australia makes up $50 billion of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is the same size as the Australian Retail sector. Many physical retailers are forced to come online now to protect their existing market share, creating E-commerce websites and advertising their products through […]
Read More | ShareGoogle rolls out Rel Author to Australia
Google has now activated Rel = Author for Australian website, ie .com.au websites. This means if you implement Rel = Author and point this to your Google Plus profile you may have your Google Plus profile picture showing in Google Search Results. I believe this is great for attracting users and showing your website as […]
Read More | ShareKyle Sandilands Love Child – Fake, Prank, Setup
Yesterday we reported a story about Kyle Sandilands Love Child. This morning on-air Kyle and Jackio-O revealed what actually happened. Kyle admitted that this was a prank, totally seup – aimed to distracted the Australian media companies, get newspaper space and just generally prank/fake the media community. This kind of worked as A Current Affair, […]
Read More | ShareKyle Sandilands Love Child
I am a long time listener of 2dayFM. Whilst this is not social media news, this morning Kyle and Jackie-o played a song and then had a conversation on air – I’m assuming they had no idea the Microphones were still live as the topic was rather sensitive – but the whole world could listen […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Jobs Relaunched
Hello All, Just a quick note to let you know I have relaunched our jobs section. If you are looking for Social Media Jobs or Tech/ IT related in Australia or worldwide, we have partnered with JobServe.com who is one of the leading international job boards and specialise in the IT space. Functinoalty through JobServe […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – September 2011
It’s nice to end the month on a Friday and we have collated our monthly Australian Social Media statistics for September 2011. We are again reporting Google Plus user numbers in Australia by using global estimates – but please do remember this is very much an accurate assumption at this stage. Google haven’t been releasing […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Car, Surry Hills – Sydney
Photo of the day: I saw this cool Google car parked in Surry Hills, Sydney. It seems to be an Electric Mitsubish model. It’s not a Google Maps car, but maybe a test vehicle for some energy conservation project. Anyway here is the picture: Please ReTweet this article!
Read More | ShareACCC, Small Business, Social Media
New chairman of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims has admitted the organisation has not always engaged the best it could with small and medium sized businesses. Mr Sims has said the ACCC is looking to increase it’s use on Social Media platforms to connect better with the SME market. This is a […]
Read More | ShareVogue Twitter Treasure Hunt
Vogue Australia has developed an innovative Social Media campaign for tomorrow’s Vogue Fashion Night Out (Thursday, 8 September). Vogue will be holding a Twitter treasure hunt through Sydney CBD – people can get clues from Vogue’s Twitter (and Facebook page) about fashion stores they need to ‘hunt down’. There are 10 stores in total they […]
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