Social Media Speaker Gig at the ACELG Social Media Roundtable
Posted by admin on Feb 17, 2013 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News | 0 comments
Guest speaker for social media at Australian Centre of Excellence in Local Government, Canberra At the beginning of December I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the Social Media Roundtable at the Australian Centre of Excellence in Local Government, being held at the University of Canberra. For those of you who don’t know what the ACELG do, they’re...
Read MoreGloria Jean’s Social Media Fail
Posted by admin on Jul 19, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News | Comments Off
Gloria Jean’s Social Media Crisis There seems to be a new social media crisis every week and this week it is the turn of Gloria Jean’s Coffees. The Australian brand is under fire on social media sites due to their apparent support of not only Hillsong, but also because of their supposed donations to the extremely anti-gay Family First and Australian...
Read MoreAuto-translate coming to Twitter, testing underway?
Posted by admin on Feb 21, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 17 comments
Auto-translate coming to Twitter, testing underway? – It was only a matter of time before Twitter rolled out some sort of auto translation tool and it seems that time has finally come. With users all over the world utilizing Twitter, an auto-translate feature would be great and very useful, not only for personal accounts, but also for business users. Bing...
Read MorePinterest, Pinspire, Thinng, Stylepin, GetVega, Gentlemint, Minglewing
Posted by admin on Feb 5, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News, Social Media Tips / Tricks | 16 comments
Pinterest, Pinspire, Thinng, Stylepin, GetVega, Gentlemint, Minglewing – Are you on Pinterest yet? Maybe it’s a little too colorful for you, you want something more testosterone driven, so you’ve opted for some Gentlemint? Maybe you love Reddit and you’ve opted for Minglewing? More into lists I guess you went for GetVega? With so many...
Read MoreCroatian designer makes Facebook bed
Posted by admin on Jan 20, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | Comments Off
Croatian designer makes Facebook bed – Just a quick post for today after I spotted something silly doing the social media rounds. The Facebook bed is a concept by Croatian designer Tomislav Zvonarić and features a reclining Facebook “f” with computer console area and bed. At present we’re talking about a model, but lord knows this could...
Read MoreHave 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 | 9,176 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...
Read MoreA 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 | 6,821 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...
Read MoreTweetForger lets you fake tweets
Posted by admin on Apr 2, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 10,253 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...
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