News Why Facebook + Instagram is good news 10 Apr 2012 The Facebook + Instagram deal is a movie in which Facebook has been cast as the pantomime villain, the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang out to steal the innocence of the Instagram kids. But we disagree. If this is a movie, it’s closer to the plot of The Fighter; in which the washed-up […]
News Facebook acquires Instagram: Reaction 10 Apr 2012 The world is waking up to the news that Facebook has acquired mobile photo sharing platform Instagram for a cool billion dollars. Here is a round up of the reactions from around the webs; Mark Zuckerberg makes the announcement on his Facebook page; I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #34 10 Apr 2012 Welcome to your Easter round up of the top stories making headlines in social media. 1. Facebook buys Instagram for $1 Billion Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition of the hugely popular photo-sharing app Instagram yesterday in a post on his Facebook Timeline. On the future of Instagram Zuckerberg commented: In order to do […]
News The Business of Being Social 5 Apr 2012 Gavin Heaton (aka Servant of Chaos) has kindly agreed to share his new presentation ‘The Business of Being Social’. In the deck you’ll find illuminating frameworks on social business maturity and how to build trust in social networks. View more presentations from Gavin Heaton Be sure to check out Gavin’s new book the Outlook for Australian Social […]
News The power of search and social 4 Apr 2012 Tom Smith, founder of Trendstream, the company behind the GlobalWebIndex, exclusively talks us through the implications of Google’s Search plus Your World and the concept of the ‘Googopoly’. With the introduction of Google’s Search plus Your World, personalising your search results to include information from you and your friends, Google is driving the way we […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #33 3 Apr 2012 Welcome to your drawsome weekly round up of the top stories in social media, a finger painted top-twelve that won’t leave you guessing. Without further adraw; 1. Australian Social Media stats – March 2012 Facebook grew by nearly 200,000 Australian users in March, though the surprising figure is the Myspace traffic, with nearly half a million […]
News Managing organisational complexity 29 Mar 2012 My recent post on the #Occupy movement and how it can help organisations become more social prompted me to dig out and (re)read some of the great work written by the late and great organisational thinker and writer, Colin Ward. One short essay in particular, Harmony Through Complexity, started me thinking again about non-hierarchical and […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #32 27 Mar 2012 Pfizer crowdsources cat for the next ad Pfizer Australia has launched a new Facebook contest that offers fans a chance to feature their cat in the new ad campaign for parasite treatment. Fans are invited to upload photo’s and details of their cat. The top 50 submissions, based on likes and shares, will […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #31 20 Mar 2012 Welcome to your weekly round up of the biggest stories in social – grab yourself an Instagraham cracker and let’s get started… 1. Domino’s increases social media effort Domino’s Australia are letting their Facebook fans decide what the next Domino’s pizza will be: from toppings to dough, the fans can decide what the “social” pizza […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #30 13 Mar 2012 Tourism Australia launches Pinterest Tourism Australia has launched a profile on the worlds fastest growing social platform Pinterest. In Australia Nielsen reported a surge in Pinterest’s unique audience numbers, from 140,000 in Dec to 360,000 in Jan. A spokesperson for TA described it as “perfect for tourism, since it’s all about sharing great visual content, and […]
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