Selina Power, Author at Bluewire Media

Selina Power is a social media specialist and a commentator for one of the Top 20 Business Blogs in Australia, Bluewire Media, and is also a writer for Business2Community, Innovation Social, and American blogs Mashable and Incentivize.

Selina’s native genius moniker, ‘Social Media Powerhouse’, is pretty apt, as she has been in the social media and digital marketing industry for over six years and has worked with non-profit organisations and large commercial companies. She is also the owner of two successful online companies and has been featured on Nova (Brisbane), ABC Radio and has guest lectured about social media at QUT and Griffith Universities.

Selina co-created the Social Media Planning Template which has been downloaded 1,000+ times worldwide. Selina is always on the look out for the next social media trend and gadgets.

You can follow @SelinaPower on Twitter or read her blog http://innovationsocial.wordpress.com/

Blog posts by Selina

Posted on Nov 7, 2012 by Rachel Sanders

5 Web Design Pitfalls to Avoid in Blogging

(This is a guest blog post from Rachel Sanders from http://www.webdesignschoolsguide.com/)

Designing a blog isn’t as easy as it seems. Although there are thousands of blog templates out there, many of them aren’t all that aesthetically appealing. The best blogs on the web are ones that relay interesting information while remaining visually coherent, and it’s often difficult to balance these two important factors. While it is true that there is no one secret to creating an effective, interesting blog, it’s useful to know what you should definitely avoid in your designs.…

Posted on Sep 14, 2012 by Kayla Wilson

Why hosting webinars is good for your online presence

This is a guest blog post.

Webinars are the perfect platform for improving your online presence. A webinar is essentially Internet based seminars, allowing business owners to host conferences for customers, clients and partners to attend remotely. The form the webinar takes is up to the host, but they can be extremely useful forums for online meetings, tutorials, knowledge and idea sharing events; presentations, product and service demonstrations, or simply as a forum for conversations between hosts and attendees.

Crucially, webinars can form an important extension of a website or blog, adding a personal touch and an extra dimension to online businesses.…

Posted on Sep 7, 2012 by Christopher Wallace

Facebook Falling? Preparing Your Business for the New Social Media Frontier

Facebook Falling? Preparing Your Business for the New Social Media Frontier

People love to root for the underdog. Remember when MySpace still ruled the land, and Facebook was the small competitor gaining ground with college kids? You couldn’t get a Facebook account without a university or school email address, so people went out of their way to obtain these and keep them after graduation.

Limiting a good product’s availability is a classic method of creating hype. By the time you launch to the general public, the idea is to have generated buzz that will propel your business to mass public acceptance.…

Posted on Aug 27, 2012 by Selina Power

7 Reasons Why No one is Reading your Blog

Are you blogging regularly but are just not feeling the love? This could be why:

Your Blog is Boring – if your blog content does not aim to engage your audience, make them think ,ask them a question or evoke an emotion then you might as well just stop blogging. This is your chance to add remarkable content that will have your readers sharing and commenting on everything they read of yours. Try using video and photos and talk about content that is relevant to your audience.
It is Ugly – there is nothing more annoying than a blog then a cluttered, non-formated and dull page.

Posted on Jul 24, 2012 by Selina Power

Social Media and Real Estate Event

Real Estate Agents are ideally placed to use social media to establish their brand and marketplace. Through a clear understanding of their market position, social media properties like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn are simply platforms for building relationships that are intimate and yet ‘efficient’ in that you can connect with so many people at once.

Kelly+Partners have teamed up with Australia’s leading social media experts Bluewire Media to bring together a day that will normally costs $8,000 per participant company for just $350 per person – the day is practical, hands on – devising and documenting your social media strategy, establishing and/or refining your online properties for maximum impact and tips and tricks specifically useful in the real estate industry.…

Posted on Jun 8, 2012 by Selina Power

Meet Australia’s Social Media Mavericks

Curious about how social media can be of value to your business? Are you only wanting to hear from the best Australian speakers who have had first hand success in social media? Then come meet Jeff Bullas, Iggy Pintado and Laurel Papworth Australia’s social media mavericks who will be speaking at Social Media Down Under event – 13th June at the Maritime Museum, Sydney.

Jeff Bullas is the Blogger who built a profile one tweet at a time. Jeff is an international social media speaker, blogger, and strategist. He educates companies and executives to optimize their global online personal and company brand through the power and leverage of social media and digital marketing.…

Posted on Jun 6, 2012 by Selina Power

Social Media Down Under Event – Meet Speaker and Organiser Adam Franklin

You’re invited to see 17 speakers discuss and debate the state of social media in Australian business.
The Maritime Museum in Sydney will play host to the Social Media Down Under Event- June 13th with a line up of 17 incredibly influential speakers on social media in business. One of these remarkable speakers, I am proud to announce is one of our own Adam Franklin.

Adam Franklin is a social media speaker and marketing manager of Bluewire Media – the web strategy consulting firm he co-founded in 2005 with school mate Toby Jenkins.…

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