Australia: Electrolux Global Social Media Summit

 blogs, Event, Media, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, web 2.0  9 Responses »
Oct 072009
 

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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Mumbai: Breaking News…

 Event, Featured, Media, Online Communities, social media, social networks  14 Responses »
Nov 262008
 

… but not on Heritage Media.TweetGrid video (click HIGH DEFINITION on YouTube site if you want to read words clearly) First. The bombings in Mumbai are shocking. Loss of life, fear, a tragedy being played out live is not Entertainment. CNN seems to be covering the hotel damage more than the people lost but to be fair, it’s a visual medium and buildings burning show more than statistics in a broadcast medium. Twitterers are all over it. People are videoing in the streets, taking photos, reporting back to their social networks. CNN coverage is simply not up to scratch, nor Continue Reading…

Avatars and Personas online and real world

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Mar 122008
 

At 1:15 is the New Zealand one – really really funny. And mean. But funny. (in a grown-up voice) I don’t understand these people who play around with ‘avatars’ and have multiple personalities online. I mean, they’re not real, not like real people. At least we know what we are getting when we meet real people? Not that pretend stuff. You can’t trust people online, only flesh and blood, right? Heh. A discussion I had yesterday with Il Paparazzo at AD:TECH Her *clicking away with some big-ass camera* : What’s an avatar?Me: A dolly online that you move around and Continue Reading…

Australia – Event: Media 08

 Event, Media, Social Media Australia  4 Responses »
Feb 122008
 

Are you going? Media 08 Australia’s Annual Report for Digital Professionals. Friday 7th March, 9.00am – 5.30pmJones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney Australia’s leading digital media organisations, Fairfax Digital and X|Media|Lab, bring you a one-day executive briefing on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008. “Media ’08″ brings together world leading experts from the UK, the US, India, China, Australia, the Middle East and Korea, to present on the most significant trends and innovations happening or about to happen across the spectrum of digital media: The Media and The Message; Generation Cellphone; Video and Interactivity; Platforms Continue Reading…

India: weddings and investment

 social networks  1 Response »
Nov 252007
 

I love a good wedding. If it’s bollywood style, even better: People Interactive gets $12-13 million VC fund from Goldman Sachs? People Interactive Group, which owns matrimonial site Shaadi.com, social networking site Fropper.com and property portal Makaan.com, is believed to have received $12-13 million from Goldman Sachs, reports VC Circle I know I’ve been writing about Shaadi and Sequoia capital and stuff for a couple of years now, but seriously? Dating and wedding sites are the “follow up” networks: developers and games first- at the bleeding edge, dating and wedding second, social media and conversation third, consumer communities fourth… and Continue Reading…

India: Google launches Google SMS

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Oct 092007
 

Google moves further into the mobile/cellphone space – not community per se but yellow pages, movie showtimes, and so on: Google has launched beta version of a new service called Google SMS for mobile users in India. With Google SMS mobile messaging service, users can get business listings, movie showtimes and more by sending a text message to the shortcode 54664 from their mobile phones.The new service is currently available on the Airtel, Aircel, BPL, BSNL and Reliance networks, and has relevant local data for mobile users in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. According to Google, users of Google SMS Continue Reading…

Australia: Wedding Social Networks

 Marketing, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks  2 Responses »
Jul 062007
 

I’m an out and out romantic. An eternal optimist. And I’ve been thinking for a while about an online community for brides. Why? Well, social networks work really well around Rituals and Events, for starters. Plus the site would look sooooo pretty. Aw shucks. I looked at a few of the Australian wedding communities – basically they stuck up a forum and called it a social network. Wedding Centralphpbb forum, and maybe tinyportal CMS?i-do.com.au not sure of the forum software, they have a few toolsthere was another one I can’t think of right now Diary something. None of the sites Continue Reading…

Yahoo beta testing mashup sites for Bangalore, Delhi

 Online Communities, social networks, user generated content, web 2.0, Wiki  No Responses »
Feb 062007
 

From TechMag: Yahoo India is beta testing mashup sites, called Our City, for Bangalore and Delhi. According to Yahoo Our City, users would be able to explore and share city-specific photos, videos, events, news, weather, blogs and trip plans. The content on the Yahoo Our City mashup sites is sourced from various online sources including Wikipedia, Flickr, Yahoo Video, Upcoming and del.icio.us. The news section picks up the news related to Bangalore or Delhi from the web and also lists the main papers of the respective city. (According to Wikipedia, a mashup is a website or application that combines content Continue Reading…

Bride and Prejudice

 Online Communities, social networks, Wiki  5 Responses »
Jan 092007
 

… is one of my all time favourite movies. The next time I get married (I try to do that every few years) it will be Bollywood style, I swear. From my fave Indian online newsletter, Alootechie. Online matrimony market in India expected to touch Rs 90 croreWhen: 1/10/2007 8:05:04 AMBy Rajesh Barnwal The size of the online matrimony market in India is expected to grow by more than 50 per cent this fiscal, to touch about Rs 90 crore against the estimated Rs 58 crore in 2005-06. “Online match-making has assumed industry proportions and is growing at a good Continue Reading…

A Good Read (blogwise)

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Apr 022006
 

I picked up the book by blogger Belle de Jour around Xmas. Interesting account of a London call girl. Very amusing and a little sad. An “at the coalface” account of the ins and outs of the sex trade. Because of her blog, Belle has won awards, the publishing contract, and now writes a column for a Brit newspaper. She has left one of the oldest professions for an much more tacky one. Heh. I started reading Baghdad Burning today – the book from “Girl Blog From Iraq” Riverbend. Very sad and a little amusing. A human eye account of Continue Reading…