Event: Portugal Keynote
Social Media Keynote in Portugal by Laurel Papworth
KFC Potholes and Social Network Spotlights
Kentucky Fried Chicken offer to fix potholes in exchange for graffiti – err sorry – advertising on the hole covers. From The Chicago Tribune: Colonel Sanders look-alike Bob Thompson helps a repair crew in Louisville “re-fresh” one of the estimated 350 million potholes nationwide. (KFC Corporation photo/ March 24, 2009) There is a danger on…
Salesforce Twitter: Don't interrupt customer conversations
Social networks meets market intelligence meets customer relationship management systems might just equal spam. Spam: food for thought So this is what I see happening on Twitter: GaryPHayes: @SilkCharm Watcha doin’ Silk? SilkCharm: @GaryPHayes making a cup of tea. Gonna have it with a Tim Tam ArnottsTeam @SilkCharm Oh you like TimTams? Have you seen…
Shocker of a site: StudentRights.com.au
… your right as a student during O-week to get a prepaid ANZ credit card? Welcome to Student Rights! This is Australia’s social, educational and commercial network for students only. The centre piece is this web site, which provides local and international students with a portal of information, resources and communication. For those lucky students that…
Australia: Kellogg vs Customers
Australia: social network and peer to peer activist group online for parents. Peer to peer support groups are all very well, but what happens when they get organised and take out advertising on TV naming and shaming your company for shenanigans? Parent’s Jury main page (the Fame and Shame awards is a PDF – don’t…
Event: Geek Girl Dinners (Sydney)
I’ll be going to this one: Sydney Girl Geeks Dinner #2, Powered by Google Sydney Girl Geeks was founded in 2008 in the same spirit of all Girl Geeks Dinner worldwide, to bring together a local group of women technologists, with a primary focus on computer scientists and software engineers. While the group is technically…
Event: Saudi Arabia: Arab Women Creating Content
Journey to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – I fly out late tonight, Sydney time. Heigh ho, Heigh ho, it’s off to Jeddah I go. In December 2006, a major Middle East broadcaster had a writing competition. They invited young Arab women to write in and say why they mattered. As in “why do Arab women…
Events: Today, Tomorrow and Wednesday
I haven’t been invited to one office Christmas party this year *bursts into tears*. That would be a hint, guys. (EDIT: It worked! Rachel Slattery rescued me from social death 🙂 )I wonder if The Silly Season corporate bashes will be a thing of the past, if Gen Y all work for themselves? Anyway, here’s…
Social NETWORKS are much more than Social MEDIA
You know eyeballs marketing or Olde Worlde economy – business to business (B2B) and business to consumer(B2C)? Attention Economy online – where is our attention? Well Doc Searls talks about The Intention Economy (consumer to business or C2B) . Where the consumer says what he wants and the business vies for attention/intention. That was back…
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