Category Archives: Social Media

Up all night thanks to Online Gravity

Earlier in the week I received an inmail via LinkedIn from the overachieving Mr Paul McCarthy, letting me know his new book, Online Gravity  had been released. Very generously, he forwarded a copy via post. I first met Paul at a social media conference we were both presenting at last year and I was suitably excited for him. Last night, before heading

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Social Tech and Pro Sports: When Fans Turn Ugly

Social Technology enables access: to the good and the down right ugly of fandom. A friend, who is new to the Twitterverse sent a copy of this tweet to me today via email, with his proposed Twitter response… Thanks for your support man! #classy RT @YOUNGSTOWN4LI4E .@Mark_Sanchez F*** YOU HOPE YOU TEAR YOUR ACL ON FRIDAY — Mark Sanchez (@Mark_Sanchez)

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Awkward Social Media Moments

Relax. We all have them. Awkward Social Media Moments (ASMM) are inevitable. Especially, when most of us can only stumble around the 17 year old web (the World Wide Web was commercialised in 1995) as toddlers, or tweens at best. Facebook is a social utility (just like gas and water?) that enables people to connect with friends (strong ties), strangers

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To Follow or Not to Follow: Which Twit? Is the Question…

Twitter’s 2000 follow limit encourages us all to proactively manage our ‘followers’ and dedicated Twitter lists. My modus operandi goes something like this: You pique my interest, for whatever reason, I’ll follow you. 🙂 My follow back policy is equally straight forward: You follow me, I #FB (that’s ‘Follow Back’ for the uninitiated). Why? Well, because… in the Twitterverse, 1.

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Future Social Government, Canberra, Australia

The last time I spoke about sport and social media, Black Caviar provided the living breathing example of how great sports brands can tweet. Today, Quade Cooper’s weekend tweets provided a great example of twi-versations that occur during an employer/ employee divide. Noone likes an unhappy workplace, however, two tweets can say a lot about a person and a company.

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