February 2012
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Facebook IPO will trigger Tech Boom in Australia
This morning Facebook finally announced its IPO for $5 Billion. After about 8 years since its creation, almost 800 million members and changing the way humans communicate forever, Mark Zuckerberg has decided to take his baby and unleash it to the markets.
So big was the news, it crashed the SEC website in the States, and the topic immediately started trending on Twitter.
But what does this mean...
January 2012
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Professional Social Media Profiles
Social Media is well and truly wrapped in our personal lives, but many of us are now using Social Media for professional services. Sites such as LinkedIn, MeetUp and Networking for Professionals have pushed us into the unfamiliar territory of using our Social Networks not for play, but rather for business.
Whilst an obvious different approach should be taken between personal and business Social...
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Facebook Apps for your Business
Facebook. The biggest social network in the world. With memberships skyrocketing towards the 1 billion mark, its current population makes it the third largest nation in the world!
What does this mean for your business? More than likely, lots of your customers are on Facebook. Also and more importantly – lots of your customers and potential customers can be talking about your business on the...
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Social & Mobile in 2012
It’s time for me to visit Madam Zelda again to ask her to look into her crystal ball and advise me what will be the biggest trends in Social Media and Mobile for 2012?
Well, not really. Not really into all that prediction stuff. However, I am into setting up a short list of what I believe will be big in the coming year within Social Media and Mobile. My crystal ball? Basically the conversations...
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PATH - One Social Network to rule them all in 2012
So we’ve finally hit the year 2012. And as at the time of writing this piece there are over 550 Social Media sites out there. Social Media has well and truly taken a firm grip on our lives and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be letting go. In fact, it will be the opposite, as our daily activities become more and more digitized and social media managed.
There are certain things Social Media...
December 2011
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Are you a Social Company?
Do you remember the old water cooler? How about the ciggy break? And the kitchen-coffee conversation that lasted 10mins? And recently the reading of the paper online whilst you had your breakfast at your desk?
Ever since the dawn of time, well, the dawn of office culture, politics, teams and organisations people have always taken a few minutes of their working time here and there to catch up on...
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It's a whole new world ... erm, Twitter!
This morning Twitter announced a change to their platform to make it more interactive and social for its users. The time of the year is at its most ripest for all social media platforms to integrate changes. As people start to leave for their Christmas vacations, as people start to spend more time with family and friends, we are more ‘social’ in the real world. So introducing changes now (as...
November 2011
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Some Scars Never Heal
Have you ever had a turning moment in life where there was a before and an after? Where you measure your existence as a pre and post. Where you think to yourself, If I could change that one moment in life, that one small thing, then things would be different now.
In science we call this chaos theory. In Hollywood, it’s called the butterfly effect. In reality, it’s called impact.
There are some...
October 2011
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Daily Deals Sites – The Honest Truth. Part 1
Over the next few weeks I will be delving into the booming world of Daily Deals Sites with my blog series. I have been interviewing people, seeking lots of feedback through social networks, gathering articles and learning about this new craze that according to one report will be a $400M industry in Australia alone by the end of 2011.
This morning I woke to 3 articles about Daily Deals sites in my...
September 2011
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A Quick Guide to Twitter Forums
What is a Twitter Forum?
A Twitter forum is an online session that will run for one hour. The forum is usually structured by a host/moderator who asks several questions over the course of the hour, and the community responds to the questions posed. Questions are tagged “Q1, Q2, Q3 …” and answers are tagged “A1, A2, A3…” The community can join the forum by searching under the...
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Read. Watch. Listen. The New Facebook - Overview.
I have woken up that little bit extra early to listen, watch and review the HUGE changes made by Facebook this week at the f8 conference currently occurring now. This Changes Everything.
Here is a summary of changes coming your way:
Timeline – ‘The Story of your Life’
An algorithm that summarizes your content based on 2 things: How Important something was, and how old it is. This then plonks it...
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An Introduction to Social Monitoring
Social Media plays a huge role in our lives today. Most of us use it on a daily basis as a minimum, and many of us use it on the go, from our smartphones. Needless to say, Social Media now plays a vital role in our daily communications and obtaining information. As businesses have begun to recognise the value of our time on Social Media sites, they too have now jumped into the Social Media game,...
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An Introduction to Social Commerce
Music Producer David Guetta, recently released an album through Facebook. With 24 million fans on his Facebook page, Guetta utilised the ability to use Social Platforms like Facebook to sell directly to the people whom want to buy his product – his biggest fans. The fans that spent the time to ‘like’ his page.
This is the start of the Social Commerce age.
But what is Social Commerce? Why should...
August 2011
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Introduction to your Mobile Wallet
Over the next 3 weeks, I am blogging a 3 part series about how Social Media and Smartphones are the best technology marriage we have seen in years, how smartphones are driving a new web environment and how are smartphones are going to replace our wallets. Tune in to the finale week below!
Most of us have a wallet or a purse. Well, we have some form of flat pocket or hand sized case which we use...
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The Web is becoming ... Mobile! #MobileWeb
Over the next 3 weeks, I am blogging a 3 part series about how Social Media and Smartphones are the best technology marriage we have seen in years, how smartphones are driving a new web environment and how are smartphones are going to replace our wallets. Tune in to week 2 below!
How much do we use our Smartphones? Stop and think about this. Now, how much do we rely on our smartphones?
Recently,...
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Social Media + Smart Phones - Who Controls Our...
Over the next 3 weeks, I am blogging a 3 part series about how Social Media and Smartphones are the best technology marriage we have seen in years, how smartphones are driving a new web for us all and how are smartphones are going to replace our wallets. Tune in!
The UK Riots were ‘apparently’ caused by Social Media networking on Smartphones; the San Francisco BART operators shut off 4 Mobile...
July 2011
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Farewell Atlantis
This is a repost of an old blog, but one I feel I really want to share with you all in honour of the last space shuttle launch this week. Please share + enjoy!
You ever look up at the night sky and think “Where does it end”?
Ever wonder “What’s out there in the universe”?
Ever see a plane flying high and think, “it’s amazing how an object holding hundreds of people, can be soaring higher than...
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Dear Social Media, Find me a job!
Remember the days when you use to go through the Saturday paper, circling employment ads and sending off your resume via mail or email. I do … maybe that’s because I’m 31. Some of you won’t recall a time of non digital search results at your fingertips. Some of you will reflect and remember it too well.
Gone are those days. Now we have so much information in real time that finding a job is...
June 2011
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The Social Brain - Why our brains need Social...
Our lives are moving at a rapid pace. So fast, that we can barely keep up with everything. In fact, we can’t. It’s impossible to be able to be three steps ahead with everything in your life. That’s because there is so much going on. Our brains are moving into a new phase of evolution. We now no longer require the growing brain capacity to do the thinking for us. Instead, we are smart enough to...
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The Social Networks Babushka Effect
We all have some form of social networks in our lives, be it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr …. We can’t seem to stop using them. It’s where our friends and families are, it’s where our work colleagues are and most importantly – it’s where our customers are.
So how do we capture this rapidly growing market for our business? Easy! Build a Social Network within a Social Network – much...
May 2011
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Tailoring Facebook Groups to your needs
Facebook Groups was created to allow social networkers share content with a smaller group of people rather than their whole friends list. Groups allow you to update posts to the group, survey the group and chat with everyone at once.
Groups are great for creating smaller social networks within the Facebook network such as family groups, teammates, co-workers, special interest etc.
The difference...
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Twittetiquette
#SMBack2Basics – a series of blogs designed for new, recently joined or interested folk wanting to get into Twitter. This series is created to help you get started and provide you with handy hints and tips, background info and a mini user guide to getting started!
Topics:
What is The Twitter?
Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man
The Power of the RT
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Forming Twitter...
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Forming Twitter Communities
#SMBack2Basics – a series of blogs designed for new, recently joined or interested folk wanting to get into Twitter. This series is created to help you get started and provide you with handy hints and tips, background info and a mini user guide to getting started!
Topics:
What is The Twitter?
Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man
The Power of the RT
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Forming Twitter...
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#SMBack2Basics – a series of blogs designed for new, recently joined or interested folk wanting to get into Twitter. This series is created to help you get started and provide you with handy hints and tips, background info and a mini user guide to getting started!
Topics:
What is The Twitter?
Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man
The Power of the RT
####Hashtags####
Forming Twitter...
April 2011
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The Power of the RT
#SMBack2Basics – a series of blogs designed for new, recently joined or interested folk wanting to get into Twitter. This series is created to help you get started and provide you with handy hints and tips, background info and a mini user guide to getting started!
Topics:
1. What is The Twitter?
2. Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man
3. The Power of the RT
4. ####Hashtags####
5....
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Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man...
#SMBack2Basics – a series of blogs designed for new, recently joined or interested folk wanting to get into Twitter. This series is created to help you get started and provide you with handy hints and tips, background info and a mini user guide to getting started!
Topics:
1. What is The Twitter?
2. Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man
3. The Power of the RT
4. ...
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What is the Twitter? #SMBack2Basics Series - Pt 1
#SMBack2Basics – a series of blogs designed for new, recently joined or interested folk wanting to get into Twitter. This series is created to help you get started and provide you with handy hints and tips, background info and a mini user guide to getting started!
Topics:
1.What is The Twitter?
2.Third Party Twitter Apps + the Short Links Man
3.The Power of the RT
4.####Hashtags####
5.Forming...
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The Rise of the Digital Consumer: How the power...
Information: the source of all power in this day and age. The gatekeepers of information have been able to control its flow and access over millennia and as such, decide how power is distributed.
This is what the companies of the old world knew. This is how they developed their empires. The consumer was the slave, born in the bondage of capitalism. The organisation, the dark lord which possessed...
March 2011
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Revolutionizing the Corporate World: Socially!
I was born a Gen X (Cusp) but I’m truly a Gen Y. The way I see it, I have the best of both worlds. I can relate well to the successful corporate executives whom think Social Networking / Social Media is a passing fad, and to the brilliant fresh up and coming entrepreneurs of the new attention age, creating the world we are moving into.
One thing I have never been able to grasp is for all their...
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The Social Media Knee Jerk Reaction to a Natural...
A couple of friends keep asking me: “Do you think that natural disasters are occurring more often, and getting stronger?” and others go on to ask “Do you think the world is going to end in 2012?”
To be direct and to the point: No. Natural Disasters like Earthquakes, Tsunami’s and Volcano’s have been occurring long before humans were around, and will probably last long after the human race has left...
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My Ode to le Mardi Gras ... Let the Weekend Begin!
My
Gay Xmas has finally come once more
Where we shine the light, on something sore
Were not all born equal, were born this way
But some of us, aim for a much better day
So once a year, when things heat up
We sing we dance we live it up
Cause we are here, and we’re gonna stay
This is our world too, so let’s find a way
A night of unity, a night of fun
A night of memories, and lots of...
December 2010
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Breaking Rules and Records: How Gaga will utilise...
Love her or Hate her, Lady Gaga is a force to be reckoned with in not only the musical industry, but the Social Media Deity. Ok, I’m biased – I’m one of her little monsters, but I ain’t alone. Gaga commands her army through engagement, interaction, keeping them guessing and continual praise. So much so, that she has over 24.4 Million fans on Facebook (larger than the Australian Population)...
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One Social Decade
At 30 years of age, I am amazed at how fast the world is changing around us. In less than 1/3 of my life, I have witnessed several revolutions in how the information world has transformed. Needless to say, back in my school days, we didn’t do our assignments the way the kids of today do. We didn’t have the tools , or the control over the content like today.
Recently, technology has helped...
November 2010
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Stained Blood: How the United Nations allowed the...
When you think of the United Nations (UN) what comes to mind? For me it’s the global peacekeepers, the collective heads of state who try to make the world a better place for all humans, and the leaders trying to guide humanity into a better future. This 192 member state organisation works relentlessly around the globe to help and aid humanity where it is most in need. Yet, recently, the UN has...
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Social Media .... How you can help IT GET BETTER...
Today I woke to the news that a Victorian girl’s grammar school has banned a young girl from taking her girlfriend to her school formal. That this girl was told by teachers that as it is an all girl’s school, she would have to bring a boy, regardless of her sexual orientation. Recently in the United States, 5 gay teenage men took their life because they were bullied for being gay, or suspected...
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Outing the AFL: Improving Homosexual Diversity in...
The management of diversity within the AFL is essential to the evolution of the sport. This is especially so for homosexual diversity. This paper will focus on the lack of equality in the AFL’s diversity strategy by critically reviewing its current programs, and by defining diversity and its application in sport. An examination of homosexual law reforms and the diversity of homosexuality within...
October 2010
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OMG! It’s the Serial Status Updater, clogging my...
Don’t you just HATE when that friend you have is constantly updating Facebook and clogging your news feed with information that you neither care for or are interested in? Isn’t there anything more annoying than having someone tell you what they ate for brekkie, lunch and dinner through Facebook? Well, I admit it. It can be. However, I’m a Serial Status Updater. And I’m here to stand up for the...
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Farewell Atlantis
You ever look up at the night sky and think “Where does it end”?
Ever wonder “What’s out there in the universe”?
Ever see a plane flying high and think, “it’s amazing how an object holding hundreds of people, can be soaring higher than the birds, and yet, I can’t even get 3 feet of the ground”?
I do. No, for as long as I can remember I have. When I refer to my memory, it all begins on a single...
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream”
– Kahlil Gibran
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Defining Effective Leadership & Effective Decision...
Here is my academic paper on Effective Leadership, Effective Decision Making and Self-Empowered Teams. This academic paper received a 90% High Distinction score.
Defining Effective Leadership & Effective Decision Making to Build Successful Self-Managed Teams
In today’s competitive environment, leaders are presented with many options. An understanding of Self-Managed Teams (SMTs) and their...
September 2010
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The Life and Death of Our Universe.
itsfullofstars:
Found this timeline of major astronomical events the future has in store for our Universe from 10,000 A.D. ~ 10^100 A.D.
http://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond.htm
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The Day the World Changed in March 2010
The Date: 30/03/2010. The time: 9:57pm. The Place: My home office, Sydney – Australia.
I eagerly sit and wait, as I have for the past 3 hours. Glued to my laptop screen, which streams a webcast broadcasting over 16,761 km’s away, from CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research)
Whilst the world around me heaves and pulsates, I am frozen with anticipation, excitement and amazement at...