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…
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
People outside of the online community will sometimes approach with a different value system, wanting to make friends, yet simply fail on many levels to understand the complexity of what happens when many people come together. Others seem to waltz in and “get” the rituals and rites of each social network very quickly.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:45 pm Tagged with: aboriginal, building, elder, face, Online Communities, online community, social media, Social Media Australia, social network
How do you remove a Ning Network and take it elsewhere? Delete a Ning Network completely? Ning have stopped you from doing that…!
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:53 pm Tagged with: delete, deletion, Manager, Ning, ning networks, online community, removal, remove, social media, social network
Aug 162010
Skinbook is “Facebook for nudists”. Though they have a Facebook and a Twitter account as well – this Ning online community has 9,000 members.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:58 pm Tagged with: nude, nudists, online community, social media, social network
How to welcome newcomers to your online community and social network and the difference between a Visitor and a Newcomer. Using signup emails, and welcome landing pages to move the newcomer through the social network member cycle.
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:41 pm Tagged with: joining, membership, newcomer, Online Communities, online community, signup email, social network, verification, visitor, welcome, welcome email
May 152010
BP haven’t consulted the rest of the world on solutions for Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. I checked: none had a project to find a solution for the oil spill. Some individual bloggers have gone ahead and asked their readers for a Oil Spill solution – and got a variety of answers from readers – but apparently BP aren’t listening. Perhaps BP might want to understand that by simply posting the need for a solution on a crowdsourced website, putting up a reward, and using a small part of their PR Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:13 pm Tagged with: BP, crowdsource, deepwater, horizon, kaggle, Michael J Evans, mjevans.com, oil spill, Online Communities, public relations, social media, social network, social networks
I’m about to install and muck around with Open Atrium as an social network intranet product for a client. It’s based on social networking software Drupal, and is free to download: Open Atrium is completely customizable. If you want a feature that’s not on that list, you can add it yourself. Read the documentation, specifically the How to Build a Feature section, to find out how to do it. Blog: A classic blog for each group that has commenting, file attachments on both the post and comments, and granular notifications. Calendar: A calendar that lets you quickly add events, suck in iCal Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:19 am Tagged with: drupal, free, Online Communities, open atrium, OpenSource, social intranet, social network
It’s dangerous to Google someone and then not give them a job – particularly if you tell them what you found and also keep a copy somewhere. Here a potential employer blogged about not hiring someone because she tweeted “I can’t bludge anymore”. Commonsense says you wouldn’t want that person as an employee but what does the law say? I did a co-presentation with Nick from Tresscox on the law and recruitment. Now I’m not a lawyer – I don’t even charge $$$ like one – but what he had to say about the Privacy Commission was interesting: collecting tweets Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:52 pm Tagged with: laurel papworth, Law, personal information, privacy, recruitment, sites, social media, Social Media Australia, social network
Journalists that raid social networks like Facebook and Twitter, not caring about community, will face a backlash. There is a difference between “exposing the truth” and straight out dirt digging by sourcing content from “open” discussions and taking it out of context to sell advertising. These teachers are suing a newspaper for printing private Facebook photos. A few months ago, I wrote about journoggers – and tried to highlight the difference between bloggers/twitterers (social network members) vs journalists simply using social media to source stories (not be truly a member), and how they behave differently: Participating in the online community… or Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:55 pm Tagged with: Facebook, newspaper, Online Communities, photos, Queensland, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, sue, teachers
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