News State of Australian Social Media 2012 6 Aug 2012 AIMIA & Sensis have released their second report into the way Australians and businesses are using social media. The report covers how social media is integrated into our everyday lives and provides some details on how businesses are benefiting from social media strategies. “We access social media from the first thing in the morning, and throughout the […]
News The Week According To The Internet #7 3 Aug 2012 Friday is upon us like a Gold-medal, a reward for making it through the working week. So crank up the tunes, countdown the hours, and catch up on the week according to the internet; STREAMED: Forget the Olympics. Watch these Corgi puppies 24/7. BROADCAST: London 2012 volunteer with a megaphone is hilarious. BIFFLES: Anzac the Kangaroo and Peggy […]
News Facebook: A New Creative Canvas 2 Aug 2012 A great talk from Facebook’s Paul Adams, which spans everything from Plato’s thoughts on the invention of the alphabet, the theory of many lightweight interactions over time through to the (limited) role of Facebook apps…
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #50 31 Jul 2012 Facebook inches towards 1 billion active users Facebook has just posted its Q2 earnings release with some pretty amazing growth figures. The number of monthly and daily active users has nearly doubled since this time just two years ago, but what has really skyrocketed is the number of monthly users on mobile, which has increased […]
News The Week According To The Internet #6 27 Jul 2012 It’s Friday, and we’re only 16 hours away from the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With that in mind, here’s your mostly Olympic-flavoured look at links we loved during the past week; SCHEDULED: The entire Olympic games in one simple chart BANNED: Racist tweeting triple-jumper kicked off the Greek Olympic team. […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #49 24 Jul 2012 Seven News faces angry backlash after deleting grieving mum’s post Seven News has apologised after it deleted a post on Facebook from a mother angry at the network’s coverage of her daughter’s death. Seven claims it deleted the comment from Linda Goldspink-Lord “in error”. Before it was deleted the post had received more than 32,000 likes, […]
News Putting a value on a Facebook fan 22 Jul 2012 Seb Robert from our UK office delivered this presentation at the Great British Social Media Festival last week which provides some great insights into the age old question – what is the value of a Facebook fan. The work came about because Bulmers wanted to find an answer to how relevant it was for them to […]
News The Week According To The Internet #5 20 Jul 2012 This is your Friday, and it’s ending one minute at a time. Here to help count in your weekend is our regular digest of internet shenanigans, submitted for your browsing enjoyment! CRANKED: The volume on the Official We Are Social Friday Spotify Playlist SEATED: Animals, on other animals ADORBS: Every single thing on this list BURNED: […]
News We Are Social: Tuesday Tune-Up #48 17 Jul 2012 Monkey does as monkey says New research released by Ipsos has revealed that nearly one in four people say they would buy from a brand because a friend engages with the brand through social media. Even better news for our friends in Brazil as this number rises to 39% within the BRIC countries. Twitter users […]
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