Want to monitor a Brand Page like CocaCola or Facebook’s Marketing Page on iGoogle or another RSS reader? It can be done but it’s not easy.
Apr 202011
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:08 pm Tagged with: Facebook, Facebook Page, feeds, how to, iGoogle, online community, rss, social media
Apr 172011
Such a sad story – 13 month old son dies while mother is playing Cafe World on the online community Facebook. GREELEY, Colo. – A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn’t think she was a bad person or that she killed her son on purpose, the Greeley Tribune reported. But, he added, that doesn’t mean her action wasn’t criminal. “You left this little boy Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:18 pm Tagged with: drowning, Facebook, mother, online community, social network, son
Recently, in an online community I am involved in, the members decided to get together in real life (IRL). Nothing unusual in that, around 20.1% of social network members that meet online will meet offline each year. Think tweetups (twitter meetups) and you’ve got the idea. So the group booked a venue interstate, a dinner, hotels etc and submitted a deposit to the moderator (community volunteer admin) who agreed to organise it all. The moderator had been a mod for around a year, and was someone the administrator had selected from the community. This mod promptly scampered away with the Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:45 pm Tagged with: admin, Australia, community manager, forum, moderator, online community, social media, social network, trust
Apr 142011
How do services like the Police engage in Social Media and online communities? Well the South Australian Police force have released a social media news site. In some respects the Police site usurps crime beat reporting in newspapers by using only “if it bleeds it leads” articles, as all the news is about crimes such as handbag snatchings. You can subscribe to their feed, the community is distributed (meaning: not “on” their site but on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) but doesn’t include a social media press room. An excellent entry into the “broadcast” category of social Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:04 am Tagged with: crisis communications, emergency services, government, online community, Police, SA Police, social media, Social Media Business, social network
I‘ve rebranded my Social Media Business podcast last week – let me know what you think! This episode: social network for arty crafty types Etsy.com makes $400m, massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft makes 1.2 billion (but still deletes my account!). Also, we managed the Junior Masterchef online communities (Facebook, blogs, forums) and keeping kids safe online against their own efforts! Issues with moving a client from Facebook Personal Profile to Business Page Migration (don’t do it!) and also the launch of our brand spanking new Social Media Q&A online community forum at The Community Crew. Is there anything Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:48 pm Tagged with: itunes, online community, podcast, social media, Social Media Business, social networks, video, youtube
Don’t Buy Now! Prosper.org.au has initiated a social media campaign to encourage house buyers to abstain from bidding at auctions due to bloated house prices in Australia The Total Abstainer’s Pledge It is economically irresponsible to expect young adults to commit to thirty years of heavy debt merely to get on to the first rung of home ownership. The current price of Australian real estate grossly overvalues land relative to take-home wages and salaries. Compounding this, Australia is in the grip of a housing Ponzi scheme, similar to that which has brought northern hemisphere economies to their knees. I undertake Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:42 pm Tagged with: activism, Buyers Strike, getup, online community, Prosper, regulatory affairs, social activism, Social Media Australia, social network
Mar 222011
Every day Facebook removes access to 20,000 members under the age of 13 for lying about their age. They lie about their age because under 13′s are not allowed on Facebook. Should Facebook ban them? Given that many young kids are on there to connect with friends and family at a distance – cousins overseas, Grandma interstate, is banning the right thing in this day and age? Or are there other solutions? What if Facebook was to create a “child” account attached to a parent account that parents could manage? From News.com Facebook bans 20,000 kids for lying about age Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:49 pm Tagged with: Children, cyberbullying, Facebook, online community, Safety, social network
Mar 212011
YouTube Symphony Sydney Opera House Online Community Makes Music! Imagine The X Factor but the auditions are held online, the music is classical and The London Symphony Orchestra and others “judge” the YouTube videos on the players precision and tone. Well, The Sydney Opera House hosted 25 million people (most of them online!) last night for the Youtube Symphony. A hundred or so sat outside in the rain and watched the light show or the screen in Hyundai or whatever it’s called, Park. My partner and I headed to Circular Quay last night to sit in the rain and wind Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:31 pm Tagged with: Event, Hyundai, online community, social media, social network, Sydney Opera House, youtube, Youtube Symphony
There’s a wild ride at the moment as traditional media slogs it out with social media. Stories that are popular in online communities become mainstream media news. And well, celebrities made by traditional media bite back in social networks. Take this case: There’s some sort of sex scandal involving a young woman and an AFL player. Which pretty well covers the Sports News for any weekend in season but hey ho. Here’s Sandra Sulley from Ten News tweeting: Now @Sandra_Sully is a well respected newsreader on TV. This tweet looks pretty normal – probably even written by a news intern, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:45 pm Tagged with: afl, channel ten, newsreader, online community, photo, sandra sully, scandal, sex, social media, social network
Today the Australian Government stepped up it’s campaign to hide the extent the epidemic of bullying that is occurring in schools by banning the evidence. As social media sites continue to turn over the rock of social evils and shine a light on social ills that we assumed were “rare” or “exaggerated” the Government’s response is to blame the medium. If you are going to go after those that film bullies, why not go after the bullies themselves? Next step is to blame the tools – Facebook and YouTube. Is the world really a better place if we shove schoolyard Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:11 pm Tagged with: bullying, cyberbullying, government, online community, social media, social network, society
If someone puts up a video on the social network YouTube saying that God is Good and teaching Japan not to be heathens by sending them an earthquake for Lent do you think: oh that’s so right! wot a nutjob! a fake – like LonelyGirl or some other prank. Attention seeking viral campaign thingie. UPDATE: Videos have been removed which is why they currently do not display. is TamTamPamela a fraud (an agency cavorting and having fun with YouTubers)? Or real? You choose. tip: Half a million online community views in a day is more of an agency play. But. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:09 pm Tagged with: crowdpranking, crowdpunkd, God, Identity, Japan, online community, social network, TamTamPamela, truth, Tsunami, youtube
Mar 112011
There are seven stages to social media engagement from shallow monitoring to deep peer to peer economies. How deep is the rabbit hole of social media? Is your organisation doing the minimum they can do, or are they quite advanced? I put together this diagram to show the steps from shallow engagement such as just monitoring to full engagement including co-creating products and services. It’s probably worth noting that every baby steps stage in social media engagement is valid – from little acorns big ol’ oak trees grow
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:47 pm Tagged with: diagram, engagement, online community, peer to peer economies, social economies, social media, social network, step by step, viral social media
In November last year, I spoke on social media and the impact it has on the Travel Writers industry. Great group – both speakers and audience. I was on a panel and then ran a bit of a workshop. I’m convinced that anyone currently in the writing/communicating industry will do fantastically well in social media. Social Media and Travel writers View more presentations from Laurel Papworth Anyway sorry for the delay, but you can download the Social Media and Travel Writers presentation from Slideshare or just flick through the slides above.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:37 pm Tagged with: Event, online community, social media, social networks, Sydney, tourism, Travel, travel writers, travel writing
Mar 092011
I spoke on how Japanese companies were doing in social media overseas. Japanese people on the panel talked about online community and social media marketing at home, and I focussed on how it was working for Japanese companies in America, Europe, Australia etc. An amazingly popular talk, people were lined up outside to try and get in – though I think the conference itself had 8000 participants, so hardly surprising. You go to some conferences these days and the number of speakers out numbers the participants. The key for me was to look at group activity versus the use of Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:44 pm Tagged with: adtech, Event, Japan, online community, social media
Sep 222010
Do you listen more to strangers or to friends? When it comes to social media and the influencer who wins – those you know but aren’t experts or those you don’t know who are? Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg” a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The savvy Public Relations social media advocate is planning campaigns based around our mates, not celebrity Twitterati/Bloggerati, no?
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:30 am Tagged with: changes, Digg, Facebook, friend, Online Communities, online community, Private, public, social media, social networks, stranger, Twitter, v4
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