Why does Facebook have patents to listen (eavesdrop) through the microphone for ambient sound if they are only using it for uploading your video? My live feed of the Congress hearings cut out right near the end, but did anyone ask these questions? Mr Zuckerberg Facebook submitted a patent 7 years ago to listen to […]
Cambridge Analytica vs Beacon – Facebook Australia Quantium
Ancient history? From Beacon to Cambridge Analytica, and Quantium. How Facebook and Twitter work with big data companies in Australia and beyond. In 2007 Facebook got into trouble for Beacon – I wrote about it at the time – a service that reported on your behaviours online and offline for “personalisation” purposes. From Beacon to Cambridge […]
5 Types of Content Calendar and Social Media Planning – Sydney Australia Course 2018
Here are the 5 types of social media planners you need. Depending on your organisation you may want different sections, different colour coding or completely different calendars: Most people know content calendars for social media. This is content YOUR create. Earned Attention. Social Media Outcome: Build Awareness Promotions is Bought Attention. Through ads or free ebooks […]
Facebook Course in Sydney 2018 – Workshop With Laurel Papworth
Just a quick note to say that there are a couple of spots left for the 2 Day Facebook Intensive Course in Sydney CBD in a few weeks. One person transferred to a later course and another one, well TBH I’m not sure what they are doing LOL. We’ll figure it out. Curriculum for the […]
Quick Social Media Planner and Course Planner #UdemyLive
SOCIAL MEDIA COURSE PLANNER Some time ago I showed my UdemyLive frankenplanner for online courses to another Udemy instructor and he LAUGHED *pouts* but I want to point out that “creative” people often need to write and create AWAY from the computer to plan properly (purely “functional” people may just use dot points in Notepad […]
Facebook Trialling Downvote Dislike Button 2018 Algorithm
How will the Facebook algorithm take into account Facebook post dislikes? After all there is already a sad and an angry response. Note that it is for public Facebook business page posts. Not rubbish your friends post up 😛 Here come the trolls. Facebook enabling Facebook Business Page Trolls? “Facebook is trialing a downvote button […]
Staff Persona Avatars: Social Media, Big Data and Employer Branding
Would you use big data tools that analyse social media to identify your perfect job and ditch unsuitale jobs? Should organisations use big data tools to analyse social media to identify perfect candidates and ditch less than ideal ones? Employer Branding and Social Media profiling I find tools like Key Values lots of fun but […]
Nasty SMS Spam – turn off Facebook Mobile Messages #australia #socialmedia
How to stop those annoying spammy messages on your mobile cellphone from Facebook Messenger Text service. Took me a while to figure out what was going on. SMS messages but no telephone number? Just asking me to click on a dodgy link? Every. Single. Day. Anyway two steps. I went to https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=notifications and turned off Text […]
