Who knew?

Affluent Americans with annual household incomes of $100K or more read an average of eight publication titles, while the average number of issues they read is 17.9. Among the super-rich (those with incomes more than $250K), however, the number of issues read jumps to 25.5.

Similarly, the average number of hours all affluent heads-of-house spend weekly on the internet is 23.4, while the super rich spend 27.4 hours a week surfing.

Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Cooking Light, Time and Sports Illustrated are among the publications that have the highest per-issue audiences among the affluent. (read more here)

I have only two things to say: one is that I am clearly living the lifestyle of the rich and famous and two, which site do you think Paris Hilton and crowd spend their 27.4 hours per week on? A Small World maybe?

The average number of weekly hours spent TV-watching among all affluent heads-of-house is 19.5, while the super-rich spend 17.8 hours in front of the TV.

.. .watching ” A Simple Life” no doubt. Or The Apprentice with Trump.

 

Presentation at PANPA (part) and WebDirections 2008 (full). This article is about the various social media monetization strategies and the powerpoint presentation (embedded) shows some case studies and examples, including social network size, the revenue streams, valuations and profits. Click for full size of Revenues for Social Networks diagram. REVENUE SOURCE: The X Axis (the horizontal one) is whether the money comes to you (you are the social network host or provider) from the members in the community or from external clients such as advertisers or sponsorship from companies. REVENUE FLOW: The Y Axis (vertical one) asks if the money Continue Reading…

 

Customer Service – not Marketing, not P.R., not anyone else – should be handling the online community relationship with your customers. Or, if you have a technical product/service, it’s technical support, or helpdesk. Surely that’s obvious? Yes? No?I laid out different community manager roles in this post, and have talked about customer service running social networks before, but it bears explaining in more detail. Marketing are trained to observe the customer. Not the individuals but the demographic. When was the last time a marketing person got back to a focus group member and told them how they were going to Continue Reading…

 

election.twitter.com My guess is that we will start to see sponsored by corporate twitter landing pages, with custom look and feel like this election one. It’s one business model for Twitter I guess! Fashion week might pay, for example. The feed updates dynamically, unlike current Twitter. Twitter is the most phenomenal news source on the planet. Bar none. Australian newspapers aren’t aware of it, but my god, switched on global news have cottoned on: CNN CNET New York Times and a rather spammy ABC Australia (fix your cron jobs!) that uses Twitter to *push* content out automatically- in a deluge, Continue Reading…

 

@dahowlett retweeting @dbfarber: BuyMyShitPile.com @hwakelam (Harriet) and I are giggling at WebDirections South 08 instead of listening to the speaker, we are perusing BuyMyShitPile. With our economy in crisis, the US Government is scrambling to rescue our banks by purchasing their “distressed assets”, i.e., assets that no one else wants to buy from them. We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we’d give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government. We need your help and you need the Government’s help! Use the form below to submit bad assets you’d like the government to Continue Reading…

 

This week’s Media Report (Radio National) is on ensuring civility on blogs and social networks. The page Listen Now Download The question we were asked to address was this: how do you encourage civility between commenters on your blog? Margaret Simons starts with a Taxonomy of Blog types. 1. Pamphleteering2. Digest3. Advocacy4. Speciality, niche5. Exhibition6. Gatewatcher – media watchers7. Diary8. Advertisement9. News blog – sourcing real news. I think she missed a couple. The Event based blog (short term, for a specific event or ritual, such as a wedding). Education or course blogs with an index and activities, such as Continue Reading…

 

Here’s how I explain Twitter – testimonials, filtering and conversation. Twitter hitting the mainstream? Surely not? Twitter Up 518.2% in Australia – Is Twitter Relevant for Your Brand?Twitter, a micro-blogging platform that allows users to share short activity updates, has picked up significantly in Australian usage, with a 518.12% increase in web visits comparing the weeks ending 01/09/2007 and 30/08/2008. Hitwise Session Duration data suggests that use of Twitter is addictive, with an average visit time of 30 minutes 8 seconds, compared to the All Categories average of 11 minutes, 34 seconds. Twitter allows users to share their collective knowledge, Continue Reading…

 

Google Safe Browsing has something to say about Sydney South West Area Health Service: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/ What is the current listing status for www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/? Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this web site may harm your computer. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 4 time(s) over the past 90 days. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 1303 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 259 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was Continue Reading…

 

Big news on Slashdot today: theodp writes “Confirming paranoid high-schoolers’ fears, a new Kaplan survey reveals that 10% of admissions officers from prestigious schools said they had peeked at sites like Facebook and MySpace to evaluate college-bound seniors. Of those using the profiles, 38% said it had a ‘negative impact’ on the applicant. ‘Today’s application is not just what you send … but whatever they can Google about you,’ said Kaplan’s Jeff Olson. At Notre Dame, assistant provost for enrollment Dan Saracino said he and his staff sometimes come across candidates portraying themselves in a less-than-flattering light. ‘It’s typically inappropriate Continue Reading…

 

I bet Citizen Murdoch wishes he had WoW to add to the Fox stable. License to print money. Without killing a tree of course: You run a game for around five years, you can’t expect it to be cheap. You’ve got to run servers, pay customer service reps, pay for marketing, etc etc. World of Warcraft’s been running for four years now, so how much has the upkeep cost Blizzard? $200 million. Or, at least that’s what Blizzard disclosed during yesterday’s analyst conference call. That’s it. Staff payroll, hardware support, customer service (which, interestingly, they say is their largest department), Continue Reading…

 

LONG LIVE Recommendation 7.14 “… content funded by Australian governments … should be made freely available over the internet ” (as long as you don’t want to quote/discuss it, one assumes). A few days ago, the National Innovation System Review came out. I have had it open on my desktop for a while trying to decide what part to blog. So here it is: IMAGE: “Sorry copying text from this document is not allowed” So much for being able to blog about innnovation in Australia. Innovative Discussion: The exact sum total of how much the Government of Australia values a Continue Reading…

 

I’ve put my name down to speak at AussieChix (thank you Google!) – this is a good event for women to practice public speaking, or to speak about something you are passionate about. AussieChix microconference in Sydney and Melbourne: October 25 2008 AussieChix aims to help women in the Australian Free Software community participate in the wider community, and one of the ways we’d like to do so is to give women more speaking experience and confidence. Therefore, we have organised an informal speaking event for October 2008: an AussieChix microconference. Date and time Saturday October 25, 2008, from 10:30am Continue Reading…

 

The Australian Film Television and Radio School is having an open day this Saturday. I’ve been roped in to play World of Warcraft -oh the hardship!, oh the drudgery! – so if you come along, look for a Fire Mage throwing Arcane Missiles at murlocs. And running screaming from dragons The Future is Now!Two brand new world first courses that explore the link between games, virtual worlds and cinematic storytelling. Graduate Diploma Games DesignGraduate Diploma Virtual Worlds Offered by the Australian Film Television and Radio School – Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast school.Applications close Nov 7 See, all those Continue Reading…

 

If you read my last but one post, you ‘ll have read the list of Australian CEOs that Twitter. Here’s a corporate version of Twitter called Yammer: What’s happening at your company?Share status updates with your co-workers. Your Network Yammer is a tool used to communicate, share, and stay in touch with others in your organization through the exchange of short frequent messages. These messages are aggregated into a feed that is private to your network. Only others with confirmed email addresses from your organization can view and post messages to your feed. Your Yammer network name is the hostname Continue Reading…

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