You can create your own online newspaper from online community content using paper.li – so I thought I would create a social media newspaper from the tweets of Australian journalists. I made a list of 500 journalists on Twitter, now their tweets dynamically update my online newspaper. Cool eh? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, indeedy. If you would like to see what these journalists are tweeting about on Twitter go to @SilkCharm/australianmedia But if you like the pretty newspaper below, go to paper.li/SilkCharm/AustralianMedia – there is a morning and an evening edition.
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:53 pm Tagged with: australian journalists, journalists, newspapers, Online Communities, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, social media, social networks, Twitter
What happens when the stock/securities exchange for your country has a computer glitch and closes down before the final bell? Well, nothing, if you are ASX Public Relations. No social media, no updates for hours. That’s pretty dangerous in these times. Especially when the “glitch” wipes $1.5 Billion off the Bourse. I checked Twitter – the number one REtweet for ASX is the one above.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:20 pm Tagged with: ASX, australian securities exchange, Australian Stock Exchange, crash, Facebook, linked in, not trading, social media, Twitter
Feb 152011
NAB bank have a Valentine’s Day social media campaign running at the moment – encouraging people with a mortgage to “break up” with the other banks. A leaked PR message, Valentine’s breakup, secret videos in the “opposition’s offices”. Here’s the “break up letter” video.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:02 pm Tagged with: Bank, break up, breaking up, Commonwealth Bank, letter, NAB, other banks, social media, Westpac
Freelancer are offering $25,000 in prizes for promoting their services to Australians. Great opportunity for someone wanting to “get their social media on”. Also some points on social media timelines. Tip: You have 18 days.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:51 pm Tagged with: 25000, Competition, freelancer, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, town downunder
Oct 212010
Cinema goers get punk’d by Hoyts and Saw7. I just love it when companies stop being politically correct, worrying about heart attacks and being sued, and just go totally EVIL on their customers.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:05 pm Tagged with: hoyts, Online Communities, punk'd, saw7, social media, Social Media Australia
Australia: Government 2.0 is such a hot topic. I’m speaking in Canberra next week – a workshop on social media and government one day and presentation on online communities and voters/constituents the next. Come along if you are interested – I think you can book from IBRC.com.au
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:58 pm Tagged with: Canberra, Dr Nicholas Gruen, gov 2.0, government, Kate Lundy, Nick Bolton Craig Thomler, Online Communities, Paul Borrud from Facebook, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks
Want to find Twitter followers based on their location, or bio information? Want to find and follow social media lists that influencers in the online community have curated? Read on… Listorious holds the key
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:13 pm Tagged with: bio search, find, listorious, lists, Online Communities, Search, social media, Social Media Australia, Twitter
People outside of the online community will sometimes approach with a different value system, wanting to make friends, yet simply fail on many levels to understand the complexity of what happens when many people come together. Others seem to waltz in and “get” the rituals and rites of each social network very quickly.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:45 pm Tagged with: aboriginal, building, elder, face, Online Communities, online community, social media, Social Media Australia, social network
Aug 032010
Getup in Australia has had women in Australia speak election candidate Tony Abbott’s words – to an interesting effect. The long tail of political comment are not forgiven by the community if they are not addressed in a timely fashion.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:43 pm Tagged with: election, getup, Politics, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, tony abbott, women, youtube
List of Social Media Election sites for Australian 2010 election. An early analysis of election 2010 sites. It’s particularly interesting to see which social media election sites are allowing the electorate to ask questions -versus who is providing answers. And how useful is the site to online community members.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:27 pm Tagged with: election, election pamphlete, gov 2.0, leaflet, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks
Jun 212010
Looking back over copper networks – now finished if Telstra and NBN heads of agreement goes ahead as planned. Telstra has done a deal with National Broadband Network Co (or a heads of agreement which is not quite the same thing).But one thing that is clear, or was, after a bit of a Twitter discussion: that copper is no more. The thingie that ran our phone networks for hundreds of years (ok, last century) is being put out to pasture, retired, taken out.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:17 am Tagged with: copper, mobile, national broadband network, nbn, Social Media Australia, telecom, telecom australia, telecommunications, telstra
Interesting. I mentioned on Twitter that I would like to go to Australia Sharepoint Conference but can’t justify the price of the ticket (not core business for me). So Kerriann contacted me on LinkedIn (not Twitter) and offered me a ticket. Cool. I’m going and so is my mate Jodie Miners aka JodieM. You can follow Sharepoint Conference on @AUSharepoint What is Sharepoint and why do I want to go? Many many students of mine over the years have mentioned Sharepoint as their internal, enterprise based intranet service with collaboration features.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:17 pm Tagged with: conference, CRM, daniel mcpherson, deon taylor, enterprise, enterprise 2.0, june 2010, lionel gomes da rosa, sharepoint, social crm, social media, Social Media Australia
This is a series of posts (one a day so another one tomorrow!) on mistakes companies make when using Twitter for business. Entering online communities is easy (mostly) but working effectively is hard. This series shows the mistake and (hopefully) the fix. This particular post is on Velocity and Timelines in Social Media. Optus, one of Australia’s main telecommunications carriers, have made a classic social media error: Social Media Timelines Opening a Twitter account to promote something on the day of the event is not giving enough time for building engagement before entering campaign mode. A common error by the Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:35 pm Tagged with: laurel papworth, mistakes, Online Communities, optus, optus_cebit, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, timelines, timing, Twitter, user generated content
May 112010
I headed off to the ABC Studios in Ultimo Sydney for Q and A last night thinking that there would be a high energy after the Four Corners broadcast. And there was. I guess I wanted to know more than anything else this: What else could the money be spent on? Are there solutions that don’t need $40million to block 100,000 pages out of billions that are not easily routed around and that won’t limit free speech on important community issues such as euthanasia, what -is-art and abortion? ABC TV: Four Corners addressed the Internet Filter: Is there a problem with the internet? Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:02 am Tagged with: 4 corners, filter, Four Corners, Internet, nocleanfeed, qanda, Safety, security, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, Twitter
Flash sites cannot be read on the iPhone or iPad as Flash is blocked by Apple. Many agencies are guilty of over-Flashing their own websites (and their clients). Have a look at these abominations and tell me: To Flash or Not to Flash, That Is The Question? I hate flash. It’s fine for little cute games but a whole website? Blech. Given the war between Apple/Microsoft vs makers of Flash, Adobe, I thought I would have a quick poke around for the worst Flash websites in the whole wide world. Agencies with teams of Flash developers tend to win the Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:46 pm Tagged with: access, agencies, flash, iphone, mobile, sites, Social Media Australia
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