This is a fun job! Title: Sr Producer – Virtual Worlds US-CA-North Hollywood RESPONSIBILITIES: Job Description:Senior Producer, Virtual Worlds, Multiplayer Online Games – Job ID 138859Disney Online is committed to leading the market in creating, marketing and operating, industry defining, entertaining, interactive and high quality, premium online experiences for kids and families.Products in the team’s portfolio include Disney.com (including Disney Xtreme Digital), Disney’s Toontown Online – the award winning and first massively multiplayer game for kids and families, Disney’s Game Kingdom Online – a subscription product for kids 3 – 8, Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online – a subscription product Continue Reading…
Jun 122008
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:35 am Tagged with: broadband, high speed internet, jobs, Jobs, select high-speed Internet service providers, Senior Producer, Snr Producer, Social Media Australia, social networks, subscription product, United States, virtual worlds, web 2.0
May 292008
There are now three peer to peer or social lending banks in Australia, as far as I can determine. Well Fosik hasn’t launched yet… but it’s the latest one I have found:Here is a chart:Sorry it’s unreadable, it’s the same on their site… So instead of asking your bank manager for a loan, ask the social network. An eBay of loans – except there is not one “winner” – 99 people might finance 56% of your loan. Fosik is under Beta Test so I’ll show you the one from Prosper.comShows the % of the loan so far funded, with number Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:40 pm Tagged with: Amazon, Bank, bank account, bank manager, banking, Britain, ebay, finance, manager for a loan, peer to peer, social bank launch, social lending site, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, telecommunications, United Kingdom, United States, USD, web 2.0
May 142008
NewsFlash! From 24/7 Wall Street Social Networks Don’t Work For Advertisers: Web 2.0 Is A Bust (GOOG)(TWX)(NWS) Perhaps someone could have figured this out a year ago, Social networks like MySpace, owned by News Corp (NWS) and Facebook are poor targets for marketers. No wonder. A social network is a patch work of millions of largely unrelated people posting private and uninteresting things about themselves. Shut-ins who put up their own web presences on the networks are probably the only ones who look at those listings. Unlike web portals ala AOL, owned by Time Warner (TWX), where content is organized Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:42 pm Tagged with: Africa, AOL, asia, business, Delaware, Douglas A. McIntyre, Even management, Facebook, Google, investment advisor, leader, Middle East, news corp, North America, Online Communities, online industry, ROI, Search, Search advertising, search results, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, social-networking sites, the New York Post, Time Warner, United States, USD, Wall St. LLC, web 2.0, web portals, web presences, youtube
Steven Noble on Twitter sent me to United Nations Foundation linked to unFoundation.org which then linked to this paper by Vodafone Group Foundation and United Nations Foundation (well, you guys always wanna know where I find my stuff) and a paper called Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs: (pdf here) GLOBAL HEALTH 1. Delivering Patient HIV/AIDS Care (South Africa)2. Connecting Health Clinics and Remote Health Workers (Uganda)3. Lowering the Barriers for Access to Public Health Data (Kenya, Zambia)4. Connecting Youth to Sexual Health Information (United States)HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE 5. Delivering Food Aid to Iraqi Refugees (Syria)6. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:14 pm Tagged with: AIDS Care, Argentina, cellphone, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, mobile, mobile phones, Mobile social networks, Online Communities, pdf, Peru, Reading, social networks, South Africa, Syria, Twitter, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Nations Foundation, United States, Vodafone Group Foundation, Wireless Technology, Zambia
SilkCharm in Eyeore Pajamas and yellow Fluffy Duck slippers in Second Life (SilkCharm Sachertorte). I was running around Second Life in my Eyeore pajamas and fluffy duck slippers that light up last night -well, it was waaaaay past SilkCharm’s bedtime – when I bumped into Anya Ixchel (Angela Thomas, lecturer at University of Sydney). They have a job for someone arty/animator-y: very creative project for someone – contact the producer, KateRichards (kate.richards (at) bigpond.com) : I’m producing a Second Life prototype for a arts-based client and I’m looking for a Art Director/animator with experience in Virtual Worlds development. Graphic production Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:44 pm Tagged with: Art Director, director, laurel papworth, Lecturer, Melbourne, Online Communities, producer, professional networks, second life, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney, United States, university of sydney
Not my usual well thought out – *frowns at you* – post , just some jottings on the consumer economy. BANKING 2.0 – social network personal banking and peer to peer loans will take off in a big way. Perhaps not the way Virgin Money/CircleLending, or Zopa or Prosper see it, but it will happen. Screws the banks in the same way Web 1.0 screwed Music industry. Not social media, straight p2p banking sites. RECRUITMENT 2.0 – already recruitment is dead. In Australia, the big recruiters have been busily buying up any small recruitment company that has been able to Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:43 pm Tagged with: business, China, CNY, collaborative products, consumer economy, customers creating products, economy, Facebook, flat web page, Hugh Mcleod, iphone, lawyer and a secretary and a web designer, Monetization, Online Communities, online currency transactions, p2p, peer to peer, peer2peer, personal banking, satellite communities, second life, seth godin, social media, Social Media Australia, social media economy information, social network, social networks, straight p2p banking sites, Twitter, United States, USD, Yahoo!
Mar 182008
I’m so proud… Congratulations to Forbidden Zone who are the first artist to reach 1000 views for a song, yup you got it… Halls of Dread!! So here are the site’s current TOP 10 Most Viewed songs; 1. Halls of Dread (1000 views) – Forbidden Zone (USA)(What more to say, Buy the CD!)2. Don’t run away (697) – Forbidden Zone3. Hello (678) – The Faraways (UK)(New Album pending!)4. Liar (637) – Forbidden Zone5. Angeline (607) – Dani Karis (AUS, Sydney)6. Transformer (479) – Amber Calling (AUS, Adelaide)7. Angry Sont (445) – Dani Karis8. Sweet memories (369) – Younghate (AUS, Sydney)9. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:49 pm Tagged with: adelaide, Amber Calling, cute online community, Dani Karis, first artist, Forbidden Zone, Melbourne, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney, United Kingdom, United States
South by South West have never heard of embedding, so you have to clicketty click and then rush back here to see the rest ….…. …. *taps foot* …… HURRY UP! :pLacy’s rsponse to the ‘disaster’As online Video Watch said: When the collective geekdom of the United States shows up in one place and spends half their time in line they have a lot of extra time to bitch on their mobile devices. That said, it’s probably still fair to label Sarah Lacy’s interview of Mark Zuckerberg (watch here) at SXSW an unmitigated disaster.You could almost feel bad for Sarah, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:24 pm Tagged with: Amazon, Facebook, journalist, Mark Zuckerberg, mobile, Sarah Lacy, social media, social network, social networks, Twitter, United States
If you read an article about curing cancer by a journalist do you assume the journalist is the expert in curing cancer? If you see a blog, or a group blog, dedicated to writing, creating and discussion cancer cures, would you think the blogger had more indepth knowledge and life experience in assessing cancer cures than the journalist that was assigned to the article? Which one is more objective? Is it objectivity you are looking for? Which one is more passionate and committed to promoting cancer cures? (Specifically. In general we all do). Do you want objectivity or passion engaged Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:28 pm Tagged with: 2020 summit, cancer, Corey Delaney, editor, Head, journalist, Kerry O'Brien, Margaret Simons, Melbourne, social media, Social Media Australia, social media history, social network, social networks, today/online services/freedom, United States
Feb 222008
You can generate your own Hollywood sign (and chocolate bar etc) at GlassGiant I have a hobby. And no, it’ s not computer games, virtual worlds or hanging around on Facebook. That’s work, not hobby! Heh. I do acting. I find it’s not intellectual, but emotional. It’s not sitting still but involves the body. In other words, it gets me out of cyberspace and grounded in real space like nothing else. Watching TV is too much like a non-participatory headspace of the ‘net. Acting however is a whole different experience. So if you’ve seen me from time to time in Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:40 pm Tagged with: acting, actor, agency, at2.com.au, career, casting, Creative Division, graphic design services, jobs, New Zealand, online casting, online casting facility, Online Communities, online strategy, Social Media Australia, social networks, South Africa, talent, United Kingdom, United States, web 2.0
Business Week always writes such interesting articles: Social Media Will Change Your Business Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later That month, May 2005, is when NeoPets was sold to Viacom/Nickleodeon, 70 million kids online, more stickability than Facebook. It woke me up to the fact that my industry was about to go through a massive growing up process. No longer were online communities for gamers and geeks : Editor’s note: When we published “Blogs Will Change Your Business” in May, 2005, Twittering was Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:11 pm Tagged with: America, celebrity site, chess, Diabetes, editor, Facebook, internet users, ivy league, online adults, Online Communities, online community, online version, online youths, real social network, social media, social network, social networks, social software, United States, Viacom
Are you going? Media 08 Australia’s Annual Report for Digital Professionals. Friday 7th March, 9.00am – 5.30pmJones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney Australia’s leading digital media organisations, Fairfax Digital and X|Media|Lab, bring you a one-day executive briefing on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008. “Media ’08″ brings together world leading experts from the UK, the US, India, China, Australia, the Middle East and Korea, to present on the most significant trends and innovations happening or about to happen across the spectrum of digital media: The Media and The Message; Generation Cellphone; Video and Interactivity; Platforms Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:41 pm Tagged with: Alan Noble, analyst, asia, BBC, BBC News, Beijing, Benjamin Joffe, business strategist, CEO, China, David Kirk, Digital Media, digital media brands, digital media organisations, director, Doha, Economist, editor, Engineering Site Director, executive, Fairfax Digital, founder, founder and CEO, Founder and Editor, Google Australia, Head, Head of Marketing, Helsinki, India, Intelligence Unit, Interactivity, International Division, Jack Horner, Jack Matthews, Jean K. Min, Jonathan Haagen, Jones Bay Wharf, journalist, Kaiser Kuo, Kay Gruenwoldt, Kevin Anderson, Korea, Lee Stephens, london, Maryland, Middle East, Ministry of Sound TV, mobile, Mohamed Nanybhay, Mumbai, Neeraj Roy, NEW YORK, Niall Kennedy, NZ, producer, Read Write Web, Richard MacManus, SAN FRANCISCO, Seoul, social media, Social Media Analyst, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney, Technology, the guardian, Tokyo, United Kingdom, United States, USD, Vancouver, Vice Chairman, Vicky Taylor, Wellington, Widget Summit, X|Media|Lab
From CrikeyMedia on YouTube In online communities, years ago, we used to use the politically incorrect term “Forum or Admin Nazi” to denote a forum moderator that deletes content due to either a) a rigid interpretation of the rules or b) makes up the rules as they go along. An example of a) would be deleting an otherwise valid posting because the member wrote “and then to sum it all up, crashed my frickin‘ car” (cussing around the filter) in a non- accusatory way. Some “Grammar Nazis” would delete or reprimand for using TY or Thnx instead of Thank You. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:33 pm Tagged with: AfD, article author, BBC, cnn, Corey Delaney, Corey Worthington Delaney, drunkenness, editor, knowledge management, Louisiana, mainstream media, Melbourne, News.com., Online Communities, Professor, reuters, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, the guardian, United States, Victoria, youtube
I wish people would stop confusing social media with social networks. Unless every single thing you do online is media, there is a difference! Ah well, here is a study on social health: ABOUT 60% OF ALL ADULTS over 18 use the Web to find health and wellness info, according to new research from iCrossing. And while search is still the dominant channel for accessing that info, Americans are increasingly turning to social media sites–including Wikipedia, blogs, message boards and social networking groups–to educate themselves about specific diseases or conditions. Over two days in December 2007, iCrossing questioned more than Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:12 pm Tagged with: Australian Medical Association, founder, John Swapceinski, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, United States
Jan 082008
From CNN: OKYO, Jan. 7, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (NYSE:MC) , the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, has teamed up with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and YouTube to commercialize flat panel television sets that allow users to access and view videos online, the Nikkei reported on Tuesday, without citing sources. This will be the Google group’s first tie-up with a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer in TV-related services, the business daily said. The Internet-enabled plasma TVs are expected to hit store shelves in the US this spring, it said. Google is the world’s largest Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:28 pm Tagged with: brand electronics, consumer electronics maker, consumer electronics manufacturer, copyright management systems, flat panel television sets, Google Inc., Internet search engine, Internet-enabled plasma TVs, Internet-enabled TVs, Japan, JPY, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Panasonic, photo-sharing site, search engine, Social Media Australia, Thomson Financial, United States, USD, video sharing site, youtube
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