Have We Lost the Ability to Be Quiet? 3AW Radio Segment

Posted by admin on Jan 2, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News | 6,143 comments

This post appeared originally over at TracyWhitelaw.com, our CEO’s blog. Thought it was worth sharing here also. Social media speaker segment on 3AW radio Today I chatted with the lovely Peter Maher on 3AW Melbourne radio in his Drive with Peter Maher show (hoping to put the audio up soon). The topic was whether increasing computer/mobile phone/social...

Top Five Reasons Why Companies Aren’t Using Social Media

Posted by admin on Nov 1, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Academia | 4,758 comments

Reasons why companies aren’t using social media I’ve worked with a number of organisations in my time. These organisations have been of varying sizes, from those with over 9,000 employees, to those with just one. What I’ve found is that regardless of the size of the company, there are generally the same concerns about using social media....

Facebook Teams with Ticketmaster to Tag Seats

Posted by admin on Sep 20, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 5,916 comments

Want to know where your friends are seated at a gig? Now you can with Facebook. Have you ever been booking seats for a gig and wondered if any of your friends were going? How about that ex you want to avoid, but you haven’t removed from Facebook yet? Whatever your motivation, most of us are keen to find out which friend is going to the gig and where...

Nielsen: Social Media Report Q3 2011 Shows Asians and Pacific Islanders Love Social Media

Posted by admin on Sep 15, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Academia | 4,372 comments

Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions at Work in Social Media Report? A new Nielsen: Social Media Report Q3 2011, suggests that the most active race/ethnicity in the social media community are Asian and Pacific Islanders. The report is based on data from May 2011 and suggests that the most likely individual to use social media is a female, aged between 18-34, of...

Cupakes and Connections – Social Media for Women – NEW EVENT!

Posted by admin on Aug 18, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 4,879 comments

Beginners Guide to Facebook for Business Workshop on the Gold Coast It’s time for another Cupcakes and Connections workshop on 10th September at 10am! Our last event sold out, in fact, we actually sold more tickets than we thought we could fit! It was a great success and people are already lining up for the next one. So, if you’re looking for a...

Social Media Workshop, Cupcakes, Laughter and Networking

Posted by admin on Aug 13, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 5,450 comments

Social media training and workshop on the Gold Coast – Cupcakes and Connections Today we had the joy of teaching a lovely bunch of ladies a little bit more about Facebook. We held our Cupcakes and Connections morning and it was an absolute blast! With a total of 11 willing learners, it was fun to be able to share some tips and tricks on how to help...

A minute in the life of the London Riots hashtag (#londonriots)

Posted by admin on Aug 9, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News | 4,371 comments

Social media and the London Riots – #londonriots hashtag monitoring Here at Social Ignition HQ, we are watching in shock and disgust at some of the images and news coming out of the UK in relation to the London riots. As any good social media user would do, we’ve been following the flow of information on Twitter using Tweetdeck and it is almost...

Cupcakes and Connections – Social Media for Women

Posted by admin on Jul 27, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media Tips / Tricks |