Someone asked in comments on my blog – this one – “how to find followers or users on Twitter by location?” In other words, what town are those Twitter users in ? Can I make a list of those on Twitter who are in my local area? Finding Twitter followers by location seems to be dependent on one of two things
Oct 082010
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:26 pm Tagged with: country, find, GPS, local, location, location based services, map, mobile, Search, Social Media Australia, state, town, Twitter
Sep 022010
If flash mobbing was originally a group of strangers from the internet/Facebook meeting in the real world, doing a flash freeze at a set time and then walking off, what is agency created, arts organisation choreagraphed and danced, performance installations with professional filming and promotion to flog products?
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:57 am Tagged with: agency, Circular Quay, Facebook, flash freeze, flash mob, flashmob, how to, martin place, mobile, online community, social media, Social Media Australia, Sydney
Facebook credits and liquidity program – integrating real world currencies, gift cards and virtual economies. What will happen now Facebook is 500,000 members strong? The currency of the internet?
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:27 pm Tagged with: app2user, credit, currency, exchange, Facebook, facebook credits, liu, mobile, 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
May 092010
The photo sharing social network Radar.net is shutting down and, thankfully, they have all undertaken all the key steps to do that sensitively and graciously. Remember, customers believe that social media sites belong to “them” the customer and for a % of your online community your exit strategy is going to destroy their friendships and their content. More in Social Media is Not An Experiment. By the way, I joined Radar in November 2007 and was impressed with their signup/verification/welcome email (a much missed proposition). Their shutdown process is equally commendable The steps to follow to shut down a social Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:00 am Tagged with: closing down, mobile, Online Communities, Radar.net, shut down, social media, social media sites, social networks, Tiny Pictures
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
What is a cyberbully? Can adults really be bullied by pixels? Surely it’s a case of sticks and stones? Or should we speak up? Would you support a cyberbully by advertising on his site? Would you hire him to speak at your events or pay to attend events he is chairing? Or is this just “acceptable” competitive behaviour by someone who see’s himself as my competitor in the social media space? If you saw him bullying would you walk away, laugh at the ‘fun and games’, be too scared to get involved? I’ve structured this post with a List of Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:09 pm Tagged with: bully, bullying, cyberbully, cyberstalking, laurel papworth, mobile, mumbrella, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, tim burrowes
Facebook has seen a surge of 513% of Senior Citizens and over 55′s joining in the USA. Australia too has a massive increase in seniors in Facebook and social networks generally in the last year or two. I want to offer some links for the statistics I quoted for an article in The Age and another one in the Sydney Morning Herald on the phenomenon: Computer users aged 55 and over are the fastest growing group to sign up to sites such as Facebook and MySpace, often using them to keep up to date with the lives of family and Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:45 pm Tagged with: Ash Nallawalla, checkfacebook, demographics, Facebook, laurel papworth, mobile, net magellan, over 55's, senior citizens, seniors, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks
Dec 172009
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. The Media Survival Guide has a bunch of sections with pieces from Industry Head, a panel, case study, future Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:23 pm Tagged with: ADMA, Dell, Facebook, Harold Mitchell, Helen Willoughby, IAB, influence, Influencers, Julian Persaud, laurel papworth, Mitchell Communicatons Group, mobile, OMA, Paul Borrud, Paul Fisher, PRIA, Richard Binhammer, Rob Edwards, Rohit Dadwal, social media, Social Media Australia, Tracy Jones
Jul 292009
Friendster may be up for sale, but where do these sites site in the evolutionary path of social networks?
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:49 am Tagged with: asia, broadcast network, evolution of social networks, Facebook, friendster, hired investment bank, media links, mobile, Morgan Stanley, sale, Social Media Australia, social networking sphere, social networks, techcrunch, Twitter, youtube
if the Government filter out MA15+ games, and ban any games not classified, what happens to World of Warcraft? What about social spaces like Second Life? How about iPhone games and Facebook apps? MySpace? a Job for Government 2.0 Taskforce methinks.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:44 am Tagged with: 2.0, advertising agency, asher moses, blacklist, broadband, classification, classification systems, collaborative meta-government tools, cough, coughs, duncan riley, Facebook, filter, fundamental online community booboo, game player, general, Google, Governor, innovation, inquisitr, Internet community, iphone, ISP, Java, laurel papworth, Massachusetts, minister, mobile, mobile social networking, month server, online design competitions, online games, Osama bin Laden, RC, Ron Robinson, second life, senior consultant, SL, social distribution systems, social media, Social Media Australia, software platforms, spokesman, stephen conroy, sydney morning herald, Twitter, USD, user generated content, web-based flash games, world of warcraft, youtube
Mar 282009
I’m always interested in Film and TV – and we had an interesting discussion the other night on the social network, Twitter about EPG (Electronic Program Guide). The sheer – and there’s no other word for it but ‘hatred‘ – people have for EPG abuses by TV stations was obvious. It seems that ALL the stations abuse and disrespect their viewers by running up to 20 mins early or late for their shows. But have a look at this satirical video of Freeview: Freeview TV had YouTube pull the video which causes a furore – exclusive by Patrick Avenell of Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:06 pm Tagged with: anti advertising, anti brand, anti community, anti marketing, anti public relations, anti-brand antiloyalty device, anti-branding, anti-PR, Cafe Press, CEO, ComedyFestival.com., comedyfestival.com.au, crisis communications, Current.com., Dan Ilic, epg, Ford, freeview, Freeview Fiasco, J, Marc Fennell, massage, media junkies, media mashups, mobile, mutha fkin question time, Patrick Avenell, place shift using internet, public social media sites, Queensland, retail groups, Robin Parkes, Ronnie Johns, satire, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, Triple J, Twitter, United Kingdom, William Cooper, youtube
Dec 162008
What’s more fun than creating a video in isolation and uploading it to the social network for comments? Well, how about creating the video live, inviting the social network to participate. Basically a webcam broadcasting out in real time. Stickam is one such site: From the Stickam page: Welcome to Stickam, where you can … Enjoy live interactive entertainment. Host your own live show. Talk with family and friends. Meet people who share your interests There’s a few of these Citizen Broadcaster sites now. Mogulus, UStream, I wrote more on it in Video 3.0: Social Video. Oh and let’s not Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:12 am Tagged with: cellular telephone, citizen broadcaster, mobile, reality tv, social media, social network, social networks, video, youtube
Nov 222008
Social media for accountants View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmedia socialnetworks) I was in Adelaide last week, presenting to CPA Australia. Interesting group – though it was the end of the day and we only had time for 3 or 4 questions. Last time (CPA Australia, Brisbane) I spent a couple of days adapting a “monetizing social media” for them only to find out that not only did they not blog, but they didn’t use YouTube or Wikipedia. Nor, strangely enough did they belong to Facebook (only one person admitted being a member of Facebook, well below Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:24 pm Tagged with: Adelaide Event, Brisbane, CPA, Facebook, finance, mobile, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, web 2.0, youtube
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 strategies for web 2.0 technologies• From social bookmarks to blogs – which tools can and should be used• Lessons learnedWayne Hughes, Managing Director, Virtual Medical Centre .comChris Knowles, Web Manager, Heinz AustraliaAndrew Mitchell, National Manager, Technology and Knowledge, UrbisLaurel Continue Reading…
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