Category: Australia
LinkedIn passes 2 million Members in Australia
Many of you today may have received an email from LinkedIn announcing that they now have 2 Million members in Australia using the popular business social network. LinkedIn has also now opened an office in Melbourne and the site now has 20 staff in Australia working across sales, marketing, advertising and recruitment. LinkedIn have been […]
Read More | ShareNBNCo joins Twitter – worth keeping an eye on
NBNCo Limited is the company responsibly for rolling out and managing Australia’s $43-Billion National Broadband Network (NBN). NBNCo is a Hobart based firm, and whilst there has been fair criticism of the NBN the positive is super fast internet speeds that not many countries are currently enjoying. Google is looking to roll out a super […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – March 2011
Earlier in the year I reported the Australian Social Media statistics for January, detailing the largest and most popular social networking sites and the amount of traffic they are attracting. I thought it would be a good idea to do this again and every month moving forward. As per my previous article – I think […]
Read More | Share‘Mark and Zoe’ teams up with ‘The Creative Collective’ to sponsor our Social Media Events section
Hello All, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome a new sponsor to the site. Internet Marketing Expert / Home Business Mentor, Zoe deLuca (http://markandzoe.com) is sponsoring the events section of the site. Zoe is one of the speakers at events held by The Creative Collective, a digital agency on the Sunshine Coast […]
Read More | ShareA Letter to Lachlan
from Tim ON THE ROYAL WEDDING The wedding has been slated for St Peters, Westminster so as to avoid the comparisons with Diana that might have arisen from St Paul’s. Yet the engagement ring is Diana’s. It has not even been re-cut. Other English Royals have done something similar. They have been given a stone […]
Read More | ShareSydney 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 […]
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