Category: Australia
Sydney Twestival 2011 coming soon – 24 March
Sydney Twestival is coming up next week in an effort to support Redkite charity. Twestival (or Twitter-Festival) are offline events organised via Social Media (generally Twitter) in an effort to support a cause or charity. This trend is becoming increasingly popular and again this year Sydney Twestival will take place. Here is the event info: […]
Read More | ShareMedical Social Media in Australia
It’s a well known fact that Social Media is an extremely powerful marketing tool that is capable of building brand awareness, increasing your company’s visibility, establishing credibility, as well as generating new leads. However up until recently doctors, medical students, medical centres and other health organisations have been reluctant to try the new community building […]
Read More | ShareVodafone apologises to customers, Great!
Today I received an email from Vodafone (as probably all other customers did) from Australian CEO Nigel Dews. Nigel goes on to explain that he and the company are apologising for customer dissatisfaction and problems experienced over the past year. They go on to explain growth has been fast, and probably too fast for their […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Forum Australia relaunched
Hi All, Just to let you know I have relaunched the Social Media Forum on a more stable and user-friendly platform. Feel free to sign up and participate in the discussion. Any feedback or recommendations on how to make this an interactive online community, please feel free to drop me a link. I have also […]
Read More | ShareLooking back on AOL, when online goes offline
This past week, US internet giant AOL gained worldwide exposure for their $315 million buyout of blog conglomerate Huffington Post. Hearing the news while living in the ‘land down under’, I realised that prior to this event, many Australians wouldn’t have known what AOL was (with the exception of some who caught the 1998 Meg […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Facebook users pass 10 million
Facebook’s head of U.S. agency relations Sarah Personette has released some interesting statistics about Facebook usage around the world. In Australia there are now over 10 million registered users, and 66% of these users return daily. This shows Facebook marketing is now able to reach a significant total of the Australian population. In comparison, the […]
Read More | ShareA note to Julia, from Tim.
This is a note from my friend Tim, to Julia Gillard. This isn’t really related to Social Media, but i wanted to post it up anyway – thanks David. Dear Julia. From Tim. You might recall that we met at the founding of the National Union of Students. I guess it was 1985. Myself and […]
Read More | ShareSearch for Facebook deals in Australia soon – facebook.com/deals
With the deal a day market becoming increasingly competitive over the past couple months, Google trying to buy GroupOn in the US, Yahoo Australia buying spreets.com.au for $40 million AUD – Facebook is now getting in on the action with their own deals service through their mobile check-in platform. If you use a Facebook mobile […]
Read More | ShareWhat exactly are Sponsored Stories, and how do they work?
If there’s one thing Zuckers has gotten much better at, it’s making money. Lord knows with an active population greater than the entire North American continent, it can’t be hard. The latest in his escalating advertising arsenal is the innocently named ‘Sponsored Stories’. In reality, ‘sponsored’ is just another term for ‘paid’ and ‘stories’ is […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – February 2011
Number of Unique Australian Visitors (UAVs) per month - February 2011 1. Facebook – currently has around 9.8 million unique Australian visitors going to the site every month. 2. Youtube – 6.7 UAVs / mo 3. Blogspot – 2.3 UAVs / mo 4. Twitter – 1,050,000 UAVs / mo 5. WordPress – 960,000 UAVs / mo […]
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