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Socialbakers have cooked up their Top Australian Facebook Pages Q1 2012 report.  The report delivers the rankings of the most popular, engaging and responsive Australian brands and media pages on Facebook.

Google have just revealed a new Google+ layout and interface: As part of the rollout, Google appears to have added new share functionality across a wide range of its different properties: Google Search: YouTube: Gmail: Do you think these new features are primarily intended as social networking functionality, or are they more directed at understanding […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]