Ever wondered why a topic is trending on Twitter? A new service – that does heaps more besides – tells you. Brizzly.com:
Brizzly - blue box shows trending topics and why
Hat tip: Keith Don who tweeted an invite link. I got one. You didn’t. Life sucks doesn’t it? Heh.
In Singapore, Bernard Chan has used Facebook and social networks to fight for fairer transport costs for students. Social Media Asia.
Just around the corner is a whole new world of social TV. Social media meets traditional content – audiences become online community members. Social networks around TV.
Thailand have a social media competition – inviting bloggers to undertake a “team” holiday set with challenges they have to blog about.
Blog Action Day 2009 is going to be on Climate Change – this was initially an Australian initiative.
embargoed press releases and bloggers
temporary job available for a social media researcher in Paddington Sydney – preferably public relations understanding
Pizza Kitchen are sued for trashing a marketing company while on Facebook and Twitter. Social media staff guidelines FTW!
Barack Obama says blogs have no serious fact checking, no context – also noted is that an undercover Huffington Post blogger got damaging information by sneaking into a “no-Press” event.
I found this online community of bloggers today. Kinda cool: TechXav is a technology blog managed by a group of young and adroit bloggers between the age of 14-15. As tech enthusiasts, we write articles related to technology, especially what’s new on the web. For example, we review Web 2.0 apps, start-ups, publish breaking news and share our opinions and thoughts with adults all over the world. With an average of 3,000 daily unique visitors and over 1,000 RSS subscribers, TechXav is ‘one of the world’s most popular technology blog (under the teenage category)’. They are asking for help to Continue Reading…
There’s a great article in The Star (Malaysia) by David Gibson of Inter-Asia. Malaysian Internet users like Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster. They’re also connecting via Twitter, LindedIn and Plaxo, and eBlogger. They use resources such as Slideshare, iTunes, Flickr, and YouTube. Nine of the Top 20 websites in Malaysia are social networking sites, and the top 6 sites are Yahoo!, Facebook, Google.com.my, YouTube, Google.com, and Blogger. Social media big in Malaysia By 2010 there will be 17 million Internet users in Malaysia. 45% of Malaysians are between the ages of 15 and 40, 31% under the age of 15. By Continue Reading…
The future of social media recruitment – my presentation at RecruitTech2009
hands on computer based course with some strategy on how to blog for business.
While I was in Singapore last week, we talked about interesting campaigns, this was one of my favourites: the Singapore Government saw the need to increase the population of Singapore so they started a Romancing Singapore campaign. 1. Romancing Singapore campaign This is my all time favorite. 40 Years ago, when Singapore was an under developed little country, the government decided that campaigns would be needed to stop the population of growing, not to burst the obviously (Singapore is an island) existing borders of how many people Singapore could hold. This was executed through well done AIDS preventive, birth control Continue Reading…
Gary Hayes has done an awesome job of putting the Business into social Augmented Reality. Augmented reality is where a device puts an overlay over the real world. E.g. view a scene through your mobile phone camera and additional bits and bobs pop up. Social Media Marketing meets Physical World. 16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models There will be hundreds of business, marketing and educational applications alongside the many 1st generation entertainment examples currently emerging. As usual the video game and porn industries are pioneering the research and development of the technology but we are about to see a plethora Continue Reading…
Laurel has been creating and managing virtual communities for 20 years, teaching social media for the last 5 years and was named Industry Head, Social Media by Marketing Magazine (Australia) in 2010.
Forbes Magazine named her in the 50 Most Powerful Social Media Influencers in 2012 and she is also listed in the 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter, as well as Number #12 AdAge Marketing and Media blog (Australia). More on the About page if interested.
email: laurel [at] laurelpapworth.com
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I'm running small, one-day computer based social media classes in September 2011 - Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. If you know someone who would like to do a more advanced class, please let them know! Laurel Papworth @SilkCharm
