Electrolux global social media summit in Stockholm with video of me Laurel Papworth as the representative from Australia/Asia.  Peter Shankman from HelpAReporterOut was part of the summit too!

Electrolux hosted a global social media summit from Stockholm, Sweden on Monday night. They invited a social media strategist from each continent to speak for 10 minutes on the State of Social Media in their country or region. There was dodgy sound – India and Hong Kong were worse than mine and hardly able to be heard. The American representative was Peter Shankman, the guy that started HARO – Help a Reporter Out, initially as a Facebook group and now a mailing list of 100,000 supporters.  I have blogged about before.  I was invited to speak as the Australian representative:


Note, I haven’t been in online marketing since 1989 – I’ve been in online communities since 1989. Kind of a major difference.

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Blog Action Day 2009 is going to be on Climate Change – this was initially an Australian initiative.

 

Some statistics around Australian use of social networks such as MySpace Facebook Twitter and other social media sites in June 2009.

 

Tonight is the Academy Awards night. Which is odd, because it’s usually around my birthday – March 24th. Do you know how annoying it is to invite people over for a birthday party and they keep wanting to turn the music off and turn the telly on? I’m emotionally scarred for life. Anyway, this is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a while. There are a small group of cinema chains in Australia: Academy Hoyts Greater Union, also Birch Carroll and Coyle Village In the 1980s Australia had 712 screens. This increased massively during the 90s. But nowadays Continue Reading…

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