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Posted on Dec 19, 2012 by Jonny Lis

The Contribution of Social Media Optimisation to SMEs by Jonny Lis

Updated on July 8th, 2013

This is guest post by Jonny Lis is a Digital Marketing Specialist at Smart Traffic, a private company with SEO Specialists in Australia. He oversees optimisation strategies for Smart Traffic’s 300+ campaigns. Over to you Jonny:

Over the years, we have witnessed the rise of Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, and Pinterest. The growth of these social media giants is really impressive. At the rate that they’re going, we will surely see more innovations from them, along with rising contenders like Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and others.…

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Laura Elvery

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

THE MARKETING GENIUS OF GUEST BLOGGING

Besides the fact that Steph Bowe is seventeen years old and her first book was published when she was sixteen (I think I was selling ice-cream) she has also appeared at prestigious writers’ festivals and contributed pieces to The Age (I got to wear a pink hat.)

And she is now guest blogging for Brisbane City Council.

A couple of questions:

What on earth have I been doing with my time?
Whose clever idea is this guest blog thing?

GUEST POSTS FOR VARIETY

A friend sent me a link to ibrary, Brisbane City Council’s new, dedicated website for high school students.…

Posted on Sep 21, 2010 by Lesley Hays

Why projects fail, your website sucks & nobody reads your blog! (Weekly round-up Vol. 73)

The two key causes of web project failure – Smart Company
…and how to avoid them! Craig Reardon explains how 1) major changes of direction can throw a project out of wack and chew up budget and 2) competing phases that don’t align can create dominos of missed deadlines.

4 Reasons Your Website Sucks – Hubspot
How to make your website not suck: make sure people can find you (search engine optimisation is a start), focus on your client/user (talk about them, not your company), have clear navigation and calls to action (more important than “wow factor” or bleeding-edge design), don’t automatically play sound or video (people will leave before finding the “off” button).…

Posted on Aug 31, 2010 by Toby Jenkins

Social Media fire-fighting… literally.

This is part 2 of my interview in Sydney with Peter Williams (@rexster), the CEO of Deloitte Digital.

I’ve already blogged about their policy and I had a bunch of other stuff I’d wanted to talk to him about. For example, Deloitte has a great relationship with the entrepreneurship program at RMIT and he’s been invited to speak at TEDxCanberra…

During the interview we got talking about social media and all of a sudden Pete was describing how he’d used it to help organise the relief effort in the town of Flowerdale after the Victorian Bushfires:

“[We used] social media and web 2.0 tools, like pbworks, blogger, vimeo and youtube, flickr to communicate, raise funds and build a temporary village and more importantly to help residents vision a safer and sustainable future.”