Well, the number of Australians on Facebook has shot through the roof. After sitting on 6 million for a while, we have 7,900,000 monthly active users, 6,900,000 over 18 years old. That’s quite a jump. Or maybe it’s been longer than I thought since I last checked. If you hunt through this blog, you’ll notice [...]
by Laurel Papworth on August 31, 2009 · 6 comments
Facebook has nearly 9million Australians, over 6 million log in monthly. And growing.
by Laurel Papworth on August 20, 2009 · 9 comments
Video showing the latest statistics of social media usage.
by Laurel Papworth on August 19, 2009 · 0 comments
Some statistics around Australian use of social networks such as MySpace Facebook Twitter and other social media sites in June 2009.
by Laurel Papworth on February 17, 2009 · 3 comments
Wherever the grandkids are, the grandparents follow.
This is not a-typical. MySpace has been primarily women over 35 since 2005, and 11% of members there are senior citizens.
Who has the highest disposable income, most free time and greatest need to connect with family and friends at a distance? Particularly keeping uptodate with young members who don’t [...]
by Laurel Papworth on February 14, 2009 · 7 comments
From time to time I run workshops, strategy sessions and give keynotes at Travel and Tourism conferences on the role of social networks, user generated content and peer reviews in that industry
A new industry booklet from Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) has revealed the power of interactive web tools, or user-generated content (UGC), in [...]
by Laurel Papworth on October 22, 2007 · 0 comments
A bit of silliness – only special members that Facebook deem “whales” are allowed to go over 5000 friends.
Hmmmm, so the Australia network numbers are a bit confusing:
You are in one network.
Australia
You have 135 friends in Australia.
There are 908,376 people in the Australia network.
Change Region
Leave Network
(interesting, it increased a 1000 in 1.5 – 2 [...]
from Dr. Jakob Nielsen UseIt.com:
Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute
Summary:
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
It depends, it depends, it depends… (on size and purpose mainly). Oh and he says don’t use graphics [...]
Laurel has been creating and managing virtual communities for 20 years, teaching social media for the last 5 years and was named Industry Head, Social Media by Marketing Magazine (Australia) in 2010. Number #4 Women blogger in Australia. More on the About page if interested.
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