I ran these a couple of times a year – the next one will be September I guess: Hands-on Computer based social media classes are being run again May in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. These are small classes, in front of the computer for those who want to set up their own social media sites…
Don’t Buy Now! Prosper.org.au has initiated a social media campaign to encourage house buyers to abstain from bidding at auctions due to bloated house prices in Australia The Total Abstainer’s Pledge It is economically irresponsible to expect young adults to commit to thirty years of heavy debt merely to get on to the first rung…
Every day Facebook removes access to 20,000 members under the age of 13 for lying about their age. They lie about their age because under 13’s are not allowed on Facebook. Should Facebook ban them? Given that many young kids are on there to connect with friends and family at a distance – cousins overseas,…
YouTube Symphony Sydney Opera House Online Community Makes Music! Imagine The X Factor but the auditions are held online, the music is classical and The London Symphony Orchestra and others “judge” the YouTube videos on the players precision and tone. Well, The Sydney Opera House hosted 25 million people (most of them online!) last night…
There’s a wild ride at the moment as traditional media slogs it out with social media. Stories that are popular in online communities become mainstream media news. And well, celebrities made by traditional media bite back in social networks. Take this case: There’s some sort of sex scandal involving a young woman and an AFL…
Today the Australian Government stepped up it’s campaign to hide the extent the epidemic of bullying that is occurring in schools by banning the evidence. As social media sites continue to turn over the rock of social evils and shine a light on social ills that we assumed were “rare” or “exaggerated” the Government’s response…
If someone puts up a video on the social network YouTube saying that God is Good and teaching Japan not to be heathens by sending them an earthquake for Lent do you think: oh that’s so right! wot a nutjob! a fake – like LonelyGirl or some other prank. Attention seeking viral campaign thingie. UPDATE:…
There are seven stages to social media engagement from shallow monitoring to deep peer to peer economies. How deep is the rabbit hole of social media? Is your organisation doing the minimum they can do, or are they quite advanced? I put together this diagram to show the steps from shallow engagement such as just…
In November last year, I spoke on social media and the impact it has on the Travel Writers industry. Great group – both speakers and audience. I was on a panel and then ran a bit of a workshop. I’m convinced that anyone currently in the writing/communicating industry will do fantastically well in social media….
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