Category: Australia
National Cyber-Security Awareness Week in Australia
It is National Cyber-Security Awareness Week in Australia, June 6-11 – 2010. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has asked Facebook to upgrade their user interface with a button where users can immediately report online crime to the police with a single click. This initiative is run by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital […]
Read More | ShareSolo Goes Social
Solo and the Qantas Socceroos have teamed up to create a new social media campaign which is designed to help gather supporters in the lead up to this years soccer World Cup in South Africa. I first got the heads up of the campaign when I pulled up behind a truck showing this signage: The […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media campaign to reduce smoking rates
The Cancer Council of South Australia has recently been using several social media channels to spread their messages about anti-smoking campaigns. Cancer Council SA CEO, Professor Brenda Wilson said social media has the potential to reduce South Australia’s smoking rate from 20% to 17%. Every year a little over 1100 people die from smoking. The […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare specials do attract customers in Sydney and Australia
We have seen the success of retailers and restaurants in the US using Foursquare as a marketing tool, but in Australia we have not seen all that much action yet. However, I noticed Wagamama in Sydney CBD has been one of the earlier businesses in Australia to use Foursquare as a marketing tool. The have […]
Read More | ShareTourism Australia Using Social Media in New Campaign
Social meda is playing a big part in Tourism Australia’s latest new global advertising campaign that launched today. The new campaign features a social site which encourages Australians to upload any images and stories that they may have from around Australia. Each image is then placed on a Google map of Australia giving a very interesting […]
Read More | ShareTelstra launches Tribe® social networking tool
Exclusive to Telstra customers – a new social networking tool called Tribe® has been launched. Tribe® aggregates your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace into one single interface where you can access all sites from. Telstra customers simply browse to http://tribe.telstra.com from their mobile browser to access this feature, and there are no data / usage costs, […]
Read More | ShareACCC suggests product recalls via Social Media
These-days large companies are finding all news sorts of ways to interact and communicate with their customer base. The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said 60-70% of Australians now have internet access and issuing product recalls via social media sites such as Twitter, blogs and forums is a good way to reach another […]
Read More | SharePrivacy search engine to launch in Australia
A new search engine is coming to Australia that focuses on the privacy of user searches – www.Startpage.com/au Startpage is made by a company in the Netherlands called Ixquick and several representative will be coming to Australia in early June to speak with Government officials and privacy advocates. Ixquick CEO Robert Beens commented: ‘The serious […]
Read More | ShareThe iPad Finally Launches in Australia
Well it has been a long time coming. The iPad officially launches in Australia tomorrow and some lucky reviewers have already got their hands on the device. Australian Macworld has covered both the 3G and wi-fi versions and to be honest I can’t wait. I believe the portability of the device will once again put social media […]
Read More | ShareANZ Debt collector creates fake Facebook profile to lure customers
An ANZ debt collector has created a fake Facebook profile under the name ‘Max Bourke’ to track down customers with bad credit histories that have not updated their personal and address details. ‘Max Bourke’ was a single guy, who like football, running on the beach and playing poker. ANZ spokesman Stephen Ries has said: ‘This […]
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