Want a Personal Google+ URL? Here’s How!
Posted by admin on Jul 25, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 5,068 comments
How to get your own URL for Google+ If you’re using Google+, congratulations. Not only are you one of 20 million who have signed up in the first month of Google+ (or Google Plus if you prefer), but you’re ahead of the curve when it comes to social media. Although there are lots of people jumping on the Google+ bandwagon, not many really know how to...
Read MoreTracy Lectures at Bond University
Posted by admin on Jun 20, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Academia | 5,772 comments
Social Media Lecture on Crisis Communications This week I’ve been lucky enough to speak at Bond University about social media use in crisis communications. The Crisis Communications class are learning more about using various types of digital media combined with traditional media during a disaster and I spoke to both the undergrad and postgrad class on...
Read MoreFacebook Insights – Why you should be using them
Posted by admin on May 30, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 4,841 comments
Why you should be using Facebook Insights Did you know that if you have a Facebook page, you can find out how successful it is by using Facebook’s free Insights tool? Most people who start up a Facebook page have no idea that Facebook provide free stats for you to use to track the progress of your Facebook page. In fact, most people might not even know why...
Read MoreSocial Ignition’s How to Use Twitter Guide
Posted by admin on May 28, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 5,547 comments
New to Twitter? – Start Here with the Basics Most people starting out using Twitter have the same concerns and questions. This quick Twitter basics guide should come in handy, so that people can read and learn as they go. This Twitter how-to-guide, has all the basic information about Twitter and contains plenty of ways to get started. If you read the...
Read MoreSocial Media – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway?
Posted by admin on May 22, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 4,475 comments
This week I’ve been working with a client on the basics of using Facebook. What has been most interesting with teaching this client Facebook is the fear and focus on risk management when using social media. To give you some context around the situation, the client has only briefly used Facebook for personal reasons and has been bold enough to realise what...
Read MoreTweetForger lets you fake tweets
Posted by admin on Apr 2, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 5,587 comments
It was April Fools’ Day yesterday and our CEO Tracy found a rather snazzy joke device in the form of TweetForger. Tracy made a few fake TweetForger tweets over at her site to show what you can do with this site and it’s pretty funny. If you want to dupe someone though, they really need to have some severe eyesight issues, given it states clearly the...
Read MoreThe Oxford English Dictionary adds internet words to its database online
Posted by admin on Mar 24, 2011 in All Blog Posts | 4,223 comments
Who knew when the first LOL, OMG and <3 were used they would end up in the Oxford English Dictionary. They are just part of new revisions to more than 1,900 entries. Given these words are used as often as they are, it makes sense to have them in the dictionary. LOL is of course an abbreviation for ‘laughing out loud’, OMG an abbreviation for...
Read MoreSocial media use during the Brisbane floods
Posted by admin on Feb 27, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media Academia |