Marketing Magazine name Industry Head of Social Media for Australia. What is an Industry? What is an Influencer? What commodity does social media create, to make an industry?

Kate Kendall (@KateKendall) from Marketing Magazine approached me a little while ago to write a piece on the “state of the social media industry”. I hunkered down and tried to figure out what I’ve seen change since returning to Australia in 2005 and it’s now been published in the 2010 Media Survival Guide.

Head of Industry, Social Media, Australia

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The Media Survival Guide has a bunch of sections with pieces from Industry Head, a panel, case study, future directions etc in Out of Home, Search, Direct Marketing, Web, Print, TV Radio, Mobile, Events/Experiential and Social Media. I am in the Social Media section along with :

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Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too. I once had to step in to calm down a forum that was off the charts with negativity and general unpleasant comments. To be even heard, I started Continue Reading…

 

I’d like to show you how I see Profile, Identity, Reputation and Trust online. In other words, Brand Reputation Management – even if your brand is a Brand of One (you) you might find it interesting:It’s on Flickr – thanks to GaryPHayes who was able to interpret my scrawls into diagram The quick and dirty version: We create a Profile (My Account) on a site, we make friends and add applications and groups and events to define Identity. We interact over time, offering content and comments and ratings which gains us a Reputation. That Reputation is then turned into a Continue Reading…

 

Hmm this rumour gain? More Gphone Rumours Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Following years of are they aren’t they, it would seem a joint announcement will be made next week regarding a google branded handset put together by mobile new boys Dell. Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal all at next month’s 3GSM conference in Barcelona. Last year Dell poached Ron Garriques, who left Motorola as Executive Vice President and President of the Company’s Mobile Devices business, and started work at Dell to run a newly formed division focusing on consumer products, and the driving force behind the Continue Reading…

 

I haven’t read anything of Stan Beer‘s in a while: Zune and Wi-Fi versus iPhone and carriers?When you hear news that a consortium that includes Microsoft, Google, HP, Dell and Intel, among others has filed to submit a wireless handheld Internet access prototype device developed by Microsoft to the Federal Communications Commission, you know something is up. When you also hear rumours that the device may be based upon a Zune then you suspect a war is brewing and it involves telcos as well. When Steve Jobs took the stage last month at Macworld to announce Apple’s relationship with Cingular, Continue Reading…

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