I”m giving away a free ticket to Connectnow that starts tomorrow. I know, late notice, but I just had a yummy Easter holiday and well, all the cool kids are already going. 
I asked the speakers for their favourite blog post (their own blog) and this was their response – it might help for you to get to know them before tomorrow’s conference: Continue reading »
Online communities and social network management job in Sydney or Melbourne. For you? Wanna see what a PDF looks like blogged? Look no further. No logo, cos it’s embedded. I hate not being able to put up a logo or an image. And carriage returns are all roundabout. I had trouble changing to Heading 2 for the lead line. and so on and so forth. Yuck. Job: MANAGER – INTERATIVE & VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES • Online and Social Media Focus • High Profile International Organisation • Salary Package Circa $95,000 Our client is a high profile organisation that delivers a broad Continue Reading…
Social media ROI return on investment is a popular topic but what about cost of inaction, COI?
I found this online community of bloggers today. Kinda cool: TechXav is a technology blog managed by a group of young and adroit bloggers between the age of 14-15. As tech enthusiasts, we write articles related to technology, especially what’s new on the web. For example, we review Web 2.0 apps, start-ups, publish breaking news and share our opinions and thoughts with adults all over the world. With an average of 3,000 daily unique visitors and over 1,000 RSS subscribers, TechXav is ‘one of the world’s most popular technology blog (under the teenage category)’. They are asking for help to Continue Reading…
Avon use cloud computing to create a social network of salespeople.
I will be on Nightlife on ABC Radio this THURSDAY night from 10pm. PODCAST: Download from ABC (might have to right click?) Nightlife… with Tony Delroy Nightlife with Tony Delroy is eclectic and companionable talk radio at its best. From the cult quiz The Challenge to news, current affairs, advice and stimulating chat with guests from around Australia and the world; there’s a lot to keep you awake into the smaller hours. Human and family issues, spiritual questions, inspiring stories, talks by best-selling authors, and experts in science, computers, finance and health are all part of the mix, as well as Continue Reading…
Melbournites, listen up! Michael Specht is running a conference on H.R and Recruitment and social media. Time Session Speaker 8:30 AM Arrival & Registration with Tea and Coffee 9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction Michael Specht 9:10 AM Keynote – Thoughts from TED 2009 Stephen Collins 10:10 AM Implementation of Enterprise 2.0 and its Value in Organisations Sean Lew 10:50 AM Morning tea 11:10 AM TBD 11:50 AM Web 2.0 in recruitment Thomas Shaw 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Case study on informal learning Jasmin Tragas 2:15 PM Legal issues to consider for Web 2.0 Michael Park 3:00 PM Afternoon Tea Continue Reading…
Social Media Campaigns: please see your doctor if symptoms persist. Do you know someone a little social media…challenged? They might like to explore social media campaigns in some depth? My courses fill up pretty quick at the University of Sydney, but this semester we are running the course twice. To cater for extra interest. These are one-day professional development courses. They give an adhoc Facebook or Twitter user an overview of marketing into social network, and tools to engage, create, monitor, analyse social media marketing campaigns. And lunch. Web 2.0 – Facebook, blogs and marketing Class code: 09SMR1007 | Status: Continue Reading…
Men do deals at Golf and the Footy. We women network in Bathrooms. I met someone (nameless for now, in case she doesn’t want to be known as random bathroom chatterer) from Department of Education in a long long line at Glen Frost of Frocomms PR conference. Well, the line for the loos, to be exact. While we hovered and jiggled from foot to foot, she asked me to do a podcast about children online for parents.From ABC.NET – James (above) is very nice and funny and we did the Podcast in my Sunroom (same one in Good Game TV Continue Reading…
Social media for accountants View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmedia socialnetworks) I was in Adelaide last week, presenting to CPA Australia. Interesting group – though it was the end of the day and we only had time for 3 or 4 questions. Last time (CPA Australia, Brisbane) I spent a couple of days adapting a “monetizing social media” for them only to find out that not only did they not blog, but they didn’t use YouTube or Wikipedia. Nor, strangely enough did they belong to Facebook (only one person admitted being a member of Facebook, well below Continue Reading…
Monday and Tuesday next week is the Sydney Online Social Networking and Business Colloration: Richard Kimber, Global CEO, Friendster Rebekah Horne, VP of Fox Interactive, MySpace Francisco Cordero, GM Bebo Paul Slakey, Director, Google I’m on abunch of things including:MONDAY Collaboration – A knowledge management revolution empowering staff and customers to deliver• Identifying the critical collaboration factors of success• Change management strategies for web 2.0 technologies• From social bookmarks to blogs – which tools can and should be used• Lessons learnedWayne Hughes, Managing Director, Virtual Medical Centre .comChris Knowles, Web Manager, Heinz AustraliaAndrew Mitchell, National Manager, Technology and Knowledge, UrbisLaurel Continue Reading…
For a second, I thought he was self gagging a protest on Minister for No-Broadband Stephen Conroy’s ISP filter plan #nocleanfeed. KevinPM is not Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is about social media. I’ts not about using social networks to push agency media, nor is it one way “PM to voter”. Web 2.0 is interaction PM to voter to PM, or at least voter to voter. Now, I don’t think that Kevin Rudd should sit on Twitter (KevinRuddPM) all day responding to a handful of voters chatting. He has better things to do. Like run a country. But a designated Senior Continue Reading…
Staff will talk: Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing ‘13 flight attendants for criticising the airline’s flight safety standards and describing its passengers as “chavs” on a social networking website’. (ZDNET) Virgin on Facebook, BA on Facebook (apparently BA Customers are smelly and annoying), pilots on their forum – talking about who they have ferried around in their planes: Who are your nicest Celebs?“I have … Cilla Black – she should be shot – quite possibly one of the most unpleasant individuals I have ever come across.” Thank goodness it’s only the airline industry that is Continue Reading…
Just a quick update on this old blog post about the Future Melbourne wiki and Government 2.0: The first round of collaborative drafting in the Future Melbourne wiki has now finished. Over the coming months the plan will continue to evolve under the guidance of the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Team. Future Melbourne have won the Planning Excellence in Local Gov 2008 Award: Future Melbourne has been awarded the 2008 Award for Planning Excellence in Local Government from the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Victorian Division. The Awards recognise achievements and contributions across a diverse range of professional and Continue Reading…
SilkCharm Sachertorte reporting from Second Life, in pajamas & fluffy duck slippers. Lee Hopkins alerted me to this new (to me) term: PajamaHadeen when he was blogging about how he blogs in response to my blog post on how I blog this blog (confuzzled yet?) Pajamahadeen or Pajamahideen is a portmanteau of pajamas and Mujahideen meaning “bloggers who challenge and fact-check traditional media” (according to The American Dialect Society, which voted it the Most Creative word of 2004.[1]) The word refers to news bloggers, suggesting their goals as overthrowing the news establishment. (“Mujahideen” comes from an Arabic word referring to Continue Reading…
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.
Forbes Magazine named her in the 50 Most Powerful Social Media Influencers in 2012 and she is also listed in the 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter, as well as Number #12 AdAge Marketing and Media blog (Australia). More on the About page if interested.
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I'm running small, one-day computer based social media classes in September 2011 - Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. If you know someone who would like to do a more advanced class, please let them know! Laurel Papworth @SilkCharm
