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Telstra and shutting down NowWeAreTalking social media site

by Laurel Papworth on September 8, 2009 · 6 comments

Telstra closes Now We Are Talking blogs in anticipation of a new site later on. But are they burning engagement in the meantime?

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Event: FITT & Influencers

by Laurel Papworth on June 12, 2009 · 2 comments

How to become a Leader and online Influencer through Social Media – presentation I gave FITT at a community luncheon on social networks

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Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines

by Laurel Papworth on April 24, 2009 · 94 comments

Managing staff who participate in social networks.
This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, [...]

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AIMIA Social Media (Bandwagon) Awards

by Laurel Papworth on January 22, 2009 · 2 comments

Bandwagon – AIMIA’s (Australian Interactive Media Association)  term for social media, not mine, never refuted or retracted. Ah well.  The Awards page.  Social Media people – remember, this is limited to a hundred or so members, most of whom are agencies so don’t take it too seriously. Most social media – good stuff – is [...]

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Blog: Iran President and Troublesome comments

by Laurel Papworth on November 29, 2008 · 3 comments

DirkTheCow on Twitter just linked to ThisIsHerd blog post on Vancouver film students who blog. 3rd largest country for blogging.Iran: A nation of bloggers from Mr.Aaron on Vimeo.It’s just a shame that they don’t mention that the President of Iran blogs
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran Blog
It’s not that the video is wrong, it’s just that [...]

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Consumer as ISP – Broadband Australia 08

by Laurel Papworth on July 24, 2008 · 5 comments

Social Network Telecommunications
view presentation (tags: open-mesh fon telecommunications to)

Whew, I just got home from presenting on Social Network Telecommunications – the Consumer as ISP at Broadband Australia 2008 conference. Anyway, I thought I’d take you through the slides (above), which develop further my other open mesh blog posts.
The First Bit (up to slide 6)
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Telstra wikipedia wars

by Laurel Papworth on June 15, 2008 · 0 comments

Oh I don’t know what’s going on over at wikipedia (also called “NotNotableEnoughEncyclopedia” or “NotMadeInAmerica Wikipedia) about poor ol’ Sol Trujillo. From IT Wire:
Telstra heavies Wikipedia to protect CEO’s imageReports have emerged revealing that, back in March this year, Telstra lawyers wrote to Wikipedia alleging that some parts of [...]

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April Fool’s Day rituals: Whirlpool and NineMSN

by Laurel Papworth on March 31, 2008 · 0 comments

Warning! Warning! ***Spoiler*** Don’t read ahead if you still like to believe in Santa Claus and pixies and that social networks will solve world hunger, global warming and your personal financial woes.
Communities offline and online have rituals. It could be an Easter egg hunt at Easter, or Talk like a Pirate Day, or even just [...]

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EVENT: Scientology and PR & New Media Summit

by Laurel Papworth on March 3, 2008 · 2 comments

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s a-conferencing I go. Today and tomorrow anyway. And Friday. Oh and next week at ad:tech too. First up: today and tomorrow

Ross MonaghanDeakin University and Founder, The MediaPod
Rob Shilkin [...]

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Australia ROI: Investment and Revenue in Social Networks

by Laurel Papworth on February 18, 2008 · 5 comments

I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular.
Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized.
It seems to me that investment companies really do want to invest in [...]

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Social Networks: Australian Idol

by Laurel Papworth on October 4, 2007 · 0 comments

While it’ s not necessary to have a compelling context, when you do, it sure does help drive both online and offline loyalty to a media property:

Australian Idol packs online punch
SYDNEY: Network Ten’s Australian Idol is proving to be a hit not just on TV, according to Hitwise data.
Average weekly unique visitors to the [...]

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Politicians in Social Networks – yawn?

by Laurel Papworth on September 22, 2007 · 1 comment

Yeh I know, pollies in online communities is boring, but here’s an interesting debate at broadband’s most powerful online community, Whirlpool (WP), posted half an hour ago:
Does Whirlpool have a formal policy on what sort of contributions political candidates can make here?
A few weeks ago, I ran upon the site of a NSW [...]

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BigPond Pilot: Oh Pick Me! Pick Me! Pick Meeee!

by Laurel Papworth on August 30, 2007 · 4 comments

I don’t need your attitude, mr/s telstra bigpond marketing dude, I have my own.
For you nosy Americans and Brits – Telstra is Australia’s biggest telecommunications company. And one of the largest Australian companies, full stop. Sort of our version of British Telecom. Or Sprint I guess. Their broadband division is called BigPond. And *drum roll, [...]

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Wanna make a buck in Second Life?

by Laurel Papworth on August 3, 2007 · 1 comment

I belong to the Real Life Education group in Second Life. Thought I might help a few members by posting these:
Volunteers Needed For… (sorry can’t read the rest, window doesn’t expand)Hello again everyone,
Putting out a call again for those interested in taking part in my visitor survey for my dissertation on virtual museum exhibitions.
The survey [...]

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