Category: Australia
The #QantasLuxury Fail – Part 2
You often hear the term: Social Media Backlash Yesterday we reported on the bigtime #QantasLuxury fail. It seems Qantas is still trending on social media (particularly Twitter) with plenty of innovative and smart alec mocking from users, further rubbing salt into the wounds on how bad this social media disaster has become for Qantas. Have […]
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After the recent social media PR failures of the union pay discussions and resulting grounding of their fleet, Qantas today tried to recover some online brand reputation. And crashed and burned. Qantas launched the #QantasLuxury campaign, encouraging twitter users to tweet their luxury inflight ideas on the hashtag to win one of 50 $30 prize […]
Read More | ShareWatch Melbourne Cup 2011 Online
Want to Watch the 2011 Melbourne Cup Horse Race Online today? Goto the following link – http://www.racingnetwork.com.au/ Want follow the Melbourne Cup on Twitter? Check out the Twitter search for #MelbourneCup getting very active right now – http://twitter.com/#!/search/MelbourneCup Best of luck to all you punters.
Read More | ShareSocial 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 […]
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