About

Welcome to LaurelPapworth.com, the website about Laurel Papworth, social network strategist.

CONTACT:

Please contact Laurel on 0432684992 (+61 432684992) or laurel (at) laurelpapworth.com. Below are the bios for conference organisers brochures. Follow me on Twitter.com/silkcharm or add me on Facebook or LinkedIn.

ABOUT LAUREL:

Laurel is one of Australia’s top social media strategist, a renowned keynote speaker and respected thought leader on the business of being social.

PRESS:

She is in the Power150 Media and Marketing blogs globally (Advertising Age), # 2 Media Marketing blogger in Australian (B&T Magazine), and regularly interviewed about social networks in international press and on Australian TV shows and Radio National, Vogue Australia, The Australian and the Fin Review, SMH, Telegraph, and various magazines.

CLIENTS

Laurel consults at executive level and facilitates strategic workshops on the impact of social networks on industry sectors, teaches marketing, blogging and social media courses for companies and runs workshops for small and home business on behalf of the Australian Government. Click here for Testimonials .

Laurel has consulted with a substantial number of companies, not for profits and government departments in Australia, Asia and Middle East including:

Telecom New Zealand, Middle East Broadcasting (Dubai/Saudi Arabia), Singapore Ministry of Defence, Fairfax: RSVP Dating Community, Sony Corporation, Universal McCann Erickson WorldWide, CHANNEL TEN: including Australian Idol community, Sulake: Makers of Habbo, Macquarie Leisure, Macquarie Media, New Holland Publishing, Australasian, Performing Right Association (APRA), Peoplebrowsr, MySongcast.com unsigned bands community, Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA), Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Businesswomens’ Network, Pink Sofa online community, ABC Australia, National Archives of Australia (gov), The Australia Council, Department of State and Regional Development (gov), Deparment of Education, Department of Primary Industry (gov), Australian Film Television and Radio School (edu), University of Sydney (edu, public), University of Western Sydney (edu, Masters program).

CROSS MEDIA, Online Media

Laurel also mentors TV and Film social network projects at the Australian Film and Television School as well as teaching Marketing and blogging courses at the University of Sydney, and has taught Social Media as part of a Masters of Convergent Media at the University of Western Sydney. She currently runs workshops in Singapore, Shanghai and Malaysia with government and media companies on innovation and cross media.

HISTORY:

Laurel Papworth has been involved in social networks online since 1989, when she ran a media Usenet newsgroup and an IRC chat channel. Since then, Laurel has worked with gaming sites (official communities for Everquest and Ultima Online, amongst others), technical developer, health and media communities. At an Enterprise level, Laurel was involved with digitising Fairfax (Sydney Morning Herald) in the early ’90s, established Convergent Media at Optus in the late ’90s and enterprise communities of practice for Cisco Systems in Asia (2000’s). She currently consults worldwide for Channel Ten Australian Idol, Sulake (makers of Habbo) Finland and recently (March 2008) finished a week of keynotes and workshops in Saudi Arabia teaching Arabic women how to blog. Laurel consults privately but also teaches Facebook, blogs and Marketing at the University of Sydney (for the last 3 years) and social media courses throughout Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai.

HEADSHOTS FOR BROCHURES: Here at Flickr (downloadable as jpegs) – more photos there too.

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