Category: Australia
Free Social Media Marketing Campaign by SocialMediaNews.com.au
The team at SocialMediaNews.com.au is proud to announce an additional new service offering being launched – Free Social Media Marketing Campaigns for Australian business, organisations, companies, government department, educational institutions, charities, not-for-profits and so on. The service is also available for select international businesses. If you don’t know where to start or don’t have the […]
Read More | ShareNokia Australia 10 day competition
Nokia Australia is holding a 10 day competition on their Nokia Australia Facebook fan page At 10am everyday they will ask a question and you have up to 10pm to submit your answer. The prize: a brand new Nokia N900 Great competition and great prize, I’m having a go! You should too.
Read More | ShareJulia Gillard joins Twitter
Australia’s first female Prime Minister – Julia Gillard has now officially joined Twitter. Julia’s first tweet: I’ve decided it’s time to take the Twitter plunge! Hopefully I’ll master it. JG. Yes – we hope so too! : ) You can follow Julia on Twitter at http://twitter.com/juliagillard Gillard now has over 10,000 followers just 1 day […]
Read More | ShareNorth Ryde Tweet up, July 7, 7:30am
Vivienne Storey from BlandsLaw is heading a Tweetup this Thursday July 7 at North Ryde. Want to discuss Twitter topics with fellow Northern Sydneysiders? Want to discuss the legal implications of Twitter? Social Media Policy? Coffee? 🙂 Details are: North Ryde Tweetup When: Wed 7th July from 7.30am Where: Silverwater Cafe 80 Waterloo Rd, Macquarie […]
Read More | ShareAustralia and the Social Web
As Australian’s we spend more time on social media sites than any other country in the world – at around 8 hours per month for the average user. But what sort of social networking activities are we getting involved in and to what extent? Australian social media figures: – Approximately 5 million Australian users of […]
Read More | ShareAustralians getting more involved in Social Media
Over the past year in Australia users going to social media sites and forums have increase 36.1% over the year. This means that social media usage is overtaking search engines as the most visited web destination by Australians. Facebook has benefited more of our adaption to social media. Facebook accumulated 56.4% of all social networking […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Government to buy Telstra copper network
The Australian Government has negotiated a deal with Telstra to buy their entire copper network for $11 Billion. The deal is awaiting shareholder and regulatory approval. Telstra will decommission its monopoly of copper cables and make room for the Australian government’s fiber and move its customers to the new fibre 100Mbps National Broadband Network (NBN). […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Australia buys Sports Tipping Site OzTips
Yahoo!7 – the Australian arm of Yahoo has acquired a Australian sports site OzTips.com OzTips is Australia’s largest online sports tipping sites which allows users to create private tipping competitions between friends / colleagues/ family etc. This now doubles the audience Yahoo!7 sports has. Yahoo!7 is purchasing OzTips from the parent company NextGen.Net Pty No […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare has 60,000 users in Sydney, Business Survey
It is now estimated that there are 60,000 people in Sydney using the Geo-location mobile service – Foursquare. A recent survey of local businesses using Foursquare has generated some interesting responses. Only 10% of businesses using Foursquare said they would be willing to pay for the service. This is an alarming rate, especially considering Foursquare […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media stats in Australia- Facebook, Blogger, MySpace
On a per capital basis Australia has one of the highest uptakes of social media in the world. Out of our population of 21 million, 14 million Australians are internet users. The most popular social media sites in Australia are: Facebook, Blogger and MySpace. Facebook has 9.2 million Australian users which is almost 66% of […]
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