Social Networking Archives

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.…

Posted on Apr 5, 2012 by Kyle Zenchyson

LinkedIn, but out of your network?

The other week you may have been graced with a brief email thanking you for making up the three million Australians subscribed to LinkedIn.

The archetypal message was complete with a photo of happy LinkedIn users and a personal signature from the Australian managing director. You probably would have also skimmed it for 20 seconds before hitting delete. Beyond the simplistic efforts to keep in touch with LinkedIn members, the self-proclaimed milestone may be worth noting.

Unique viewers vs. active users
Social Media News does bring up an important fact.…

Posted on Oct 7, 2010 by Sarah McVeigh

Q&A with Kelly Olexa – social media, vlogging & the power of conversation

A few weeks back I was lucky enough to have the chance to meet and interview Kelly Olexa.

With more than 28,000 followers on Twitter, a successful YouTube channel that receives thousands of hits per entry, and a book on the way, it’s clear Kelly Olexa knows a thing or two about the power of social media when harnessed correctly.

Here she tells us how she fell into social media as a means of professional networking after losing her job. But the level of success that came out of “talking alot” as Kelly modestly puts it, could hardly have been anticipated.…

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 Sep 17, 2010 by Sarah McVeigh

One tip from Liz Strauss

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I just had a fabulous interview with Liz Strauss of Successful Blog. She shared lots of insights about building your network, both on and offline, as well as tips to help your blog thrive.

I’ll be posting the video of that soon, but I just wanted to share one little morsel:

Liz Strauss talks about making the most of your personality online. – audio file.

“There is information all over the internet, but there is only one you.”

I look forward to more and more companies becoming personable through social media.…

Posted on Sep 13, 2010 by Lesley Hays

Google Instant, designing great presentations & more (Weekly round-up Vol. 72)

Last week saw the launch of Google Instant – Google’s new real-time, predictive search. Right now, you might only be able to see it when you’re logged into a Google account (it’s being rolled out slowly) but you should come across it in the near future. Here’s a quick wrap-up: