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Facebook: Sentiment Measurement and social media

by Laurel Papworth on October 10, 2009 · 15 comments

Facebook status updates tell us the emotional health of the nation and the Gross National Happiness of members. 300 million ? 400 million? of ‘em.

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Blog Journalism: The World As Editor

by Laurel Papworth on June 9, 2009 · 4 comments

Comments in blogs keep the blogger honest. The world becomes the Editor – a scary brute indeed!

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Pownce dead

by Laurel Papworth on January 15, 2009 · 2 comments

… but what was it for? I never did work it out. Here’s the screenshot of the now dead, read-only site (temporarily until it’s gone for ever, no doubt). I got the email before Christmas, but am only just now getting around to looking at it. Though I did check to make sure they didn’t [...]

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God on Facebook

by Laurel Papworth on December 22, 2008 · 2 comments

Merry Christmas my poppets. Hopefully in the new year, a new blog, but we’ll see
Ho Ho Ho. Notice that it’s not a real Facebook page – it’s reverse chronology to what it should be.
I’m pretty sure it’s from CollegeHumor. Probably APC Magazines nicked it, unattributed, a few weeks later. Um aaaah. I’m telling!
Anyway, [...]

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Tis the Season for Gaming… PS3 Home

by Laurel Papworth on December 19, 2008 · 7 comments

We got a Playstation 3 (on loan!) yesterday. Love it. But this advice is for all games boxes/consoles/whatnots over the “Tis the season to be gaming” holidays.
Getting the your little darlings a PS3 for Christmas? Planning on having “Home” -the social virtual world – act like a babysitter while you get squiffy with your [...]

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Australia Event:Online Social Networking and Business Colloration

by Laurel Papworth on November 19, 2008 · 9 comments

Monday and Tuesday next week is the Sydney Online Social Networking and Business Colloration:

Richard Kimber, Global CEO, Friendster
Rebekah Horne, VP of Fox Interactive, MySpace
Francisco Cordero, GM Bebo
Paul Slakey, Director, Google

I’m on abunch of things including:MONDAY

Collaboration – A knowledge management revolution empowering staff and customers to deliver• Identifying the critical collaboration factors of success• Change management [...]

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Facebook: Virgin Atlantic firing staff

by Laurel Papworth on November 10, 2008 · 4 comments

Staff will talk:
Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing ‘13 flight attendants for criticising the airline’s flight safety standards and describing its passengers as “chavs” on a social networking website’. (ZDNET)
Virgin on Facebook, BA on Facebook (apparently BA Customers are smelly and annoying), pilots on their forum – talking about who they [...]

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Event: Saudi Arabia: Arab Women Creating Content

by Laurel Papworth on March 13, 2008 · 6 comments

Journey to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – I fly out late tonight, Sydney time.
Heigh ho, Heigh ho, it’s off to Jeddah I go.
In December 2006, a major Middle East broadcaster had a writing competition. They invited young Arab women to write in and say why they mattered. As in “why do Arab women matter”. The [...]

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Australia ROI: Investment and Revenue in Social Networks

by Laurel Papworth on February 18, 2008 · 5 comments

I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular.
Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized.
It seems to me that investment companies really do want to invest in [...]

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Twitter for fundraising

by Laurel Papworth on January 2, 2008 · 0 comments

I’m feeling lazy today, so a ‘filtering’ post (not original content). Brought to you direct from Twitter blog:

Twittering for The Children
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Merry Christmas!

by Laurel Papworth on December 19, 2007 · 1 comment

Vote for me. Or Santa won’t visit you. I mean it.
Australias Top 20 Web Celebs!
It’s a bit echo-chambery (you can’t nominate, only vote). But then again it’s all in good fun. I suggested they use Pligg – in fact I would’ve given ‘em poor ol’ Bloggerati. But that might’ve made it all tooooo [...]

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Happy 2 Million Australians, Facebook

by Laurel Papworth on December 8, 2007 · 0 comments

About 1/3 of Australians don’t join the Facebook Australian ‘network’ (group). But sometime in the last couple of days (since last weekend anyway), Facebook signed up their 2 millionth Australian – you can see the real numbers through the social ads pages. That makes them well on track for having 10% of Australians on Facebook [...]

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An early Merry Xmas from SilkCharm

by Laurel Papworth on November 23, 2007 · 1 comment

I know it’s early but click on SilkCharm… you won’t regret it! An early Merry Christmas dahlings!
Tags: social media, Humour, elfyourself, silkcharm, xmas

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LAW: Businesses faking user generated reviews

by Laurel Papworth on May 25, 2007 · 0 comments

Uhoh. Bad news for fakers – from The Times (hat tip: G2 New Zealand)

Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’
Hotels, restaurants and online shops that post glowing reviews about themselves under false identities could face criminal prosecution under new rules that come into force next year.
Businesses which write fake blog entries [...]

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