Awkward Social Media Moments
A few years ago, I had a bunch of flowers delivered to a friend for her birthday. By that evening, I hadn’t heard a word from her and dejected, I vented to a girlfriend in an angry text “No thank you whatsoever, ungrateful cow”. I accidently sent it to the birthday girl. We’ve all done […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – April 2012
Today we again report our monthly social media statistics showing the most popular social networks in Australia. We see a continuous trend of new social networks such as Instagram and Pinterest growing fast, while the main players remain relatively steady. There is still much hype about Google+ and we have some updated numbers for the Australian market […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media and the 99%
Our generation has the ability to have more of a voice today than ever before. If you are reading this article there is a good chance you encompass the 99%. The Occupy Wall Street Campaign is one example of our generation finding its voice. With the entire world a few mouse clicks away we are […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Logout ads showing to Australian Users
It looks like Facebook is rolling out their Logout ads to more countries internationally. Australian users may now see Logout ads when they sign-out of their Facebook account. For example, today I’ve seen this ad a couple times: It will be interesting to track this product in Australia and what sort of advertisers it attracts […]
Read More | ShareConfessions of a desperate Twit
I’d hit virtual rock bottom. I begged Corey Worthington to ReTweet me. The Party Boy gave me a shout out and for a second there, I thought all of my social media problems had been solved. You see, I’ve developed an online inferiority complex as a result of failing to recruit Twitter followers fast enough. […]
Read More | ShareFacebook – 901 Million active users
Facebook has just made another update to their SEC filing. Key figures to note: 901 Million Monthly Active Users 526 Million Daily Active Users 488 Million Monthly Active Users accessing Facebook Mobile 300 Million Photos uploaded every day 3.2 Billion Likes and Comments every day To put this in perspective, the number 2 social network Twitter […]
Read More | ShareUse Social Media to boost Real-World Relationships
What I have realised with Social Media is that sometimes we become so focused on the metrics we are not paying enough attention to the opportunities being created. Yes we want more Likes, Followers, Views, Hits etc – but if we are getting real world business relationships and new clients – this is the ultimate goal from […]
Read More | ShareWordPress version 3.3.2 Released
WordPress has just released an update to their WordPress.org software – version 3.3.2. This update fixes a number of security bugs and vulnerabilities. It has been some time since we’ve had an update from WordPress but I am glad to see this is a security update instead of feature upgrades. For me security is far […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Adds Google+1 Button to News
We saw recently Google rolled out a new +1 button for their social network, Google+. Many webmasters around the world have added this button as it can now impact search results for Google web search users, especially people who run Google searches logged in to their Google account. In an interesting move, Yahoo Australia and […]
Read More | ShareMaking your Like-Gate most Cost Effective
As social media marketers, many of us are using Facebook Ads to build a targeted audience of fans and followers. I have been looking around at the most cost effective price marketers get when acquiring Facebook fans – $1 per fan? $2 per fan? What are you paying? When you start a new campaign for a customer […]
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