About
Welcome to LaurelPapworth.com, the website about Laurel Papworth, social network strategist. Laurel’s popular social network blog is at silkcharm.blogspot.com. You can read Testimonials here. Please contact Laurel on 0432684992 (+61 432684992) or lpapworth (at) gmail.com.
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. She is in the top 150 Media and Marketing blogs globally (Advertising Age), a Top 100 Australian blogger, 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. 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 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 taught Social Media as part of a Masters of Convergent Media at the University of Western Sydney. Contact: 0432684992 or email lpapworth@gmail.com Follow me on Twitter.com/silkcharm or add me on Facebook.
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 and social media as part of a Masters of Convergent Media at University of Western Sydney.
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Upcoming conference presentations and workshops are here.