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Creating Value with Content: Strategies for Marketing and Advertising

August 18th, 2009 by Neerav Bhatt
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The Insight Exchange is a series of monthly topic driven lunches that offers executives a chance to gain valuable information in a short period of time while networking with like minded people.

Today I’m attended their discussion forum : “Creating Value with Content: Strategies for Marketing and Advertising”

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Cotton On Hasn’t Cottoned On To Social Media

August 14th, 2009 by Dorothy Polka
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An Australian retailer was not immune to the viral effect social media can pursue for a cause today.

On Friday morning I read a blog post by ex Magazine editor and prominent writer Mia Freedman (you can read it here).  Mia had been contacted by a reader who had seen [...] Continue Reading…

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Social Media Strategies – The Insight Exchange

July 21st, 2009 by Neerav Bhatt
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The Insight Exchange is a series of monthly topic driven lunches that offers executives a chance to gain valuable information in a short period of time while networking with like minded people.

Today I had a press pass to their discussion forum : “Social Media Strategies” .. but on reaching [...] Continue Reading…

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Examining Social Aspects of Mobile Phone Use

June 7th, 2009 by Neerav Bhatt
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Across the world throughout industrialised and developing countries young people, business people, elderly people and many other parts of society are using Mobile Phone technology to connect people, share information, ignite creativity and imagination

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However its important to note that there are big differences in sub-groups of society [...] Continue Reading…

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Guidelines for Guidelines – The WRITE Approach to Corporate Social Media

May 21st, 2009 by Gavin Heaton
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Whether you like it or not, or whether you are AWARE of it or not, your employees, suppliers and partners are using social media in some form or another. A recent Forrester Report indicated that 75% of Australian adult internet users are engaged with some form of [...] Continue Reading…

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How To Deal With Anonymous Posts On Your Corporate Blog?

April 29th, 2009 by Fi Bendall
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Over the years, our dear friend “Anon” has written poetry, musings and songs. They often leave me feeling romanticism, or wonder whom the soul is behind such writings that are lamenting on life.  For me there has been a lovely mystery around poem’s written by Anon; I ponder, was [...] Continue Reading…

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Telstra’s Three Aahhs of Social Media

April 21st, 2009 by Gavin Heaton
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It has been over ten years since the Cluetrain Manifesto was published – and in that time, social media has transformed the way in which people communicate with each other online. Sometimes these online conversations are about life or work or politics – and sometimes they are about brands, [...] Continue Reading…

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Adored On Twitter

April 8th, 2009 by Dorothy Polka
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@brandstofollow is a great list of Australian businesses using Twitter.
The list is wide and varied- baby fashion online stores, sporting teams to well known Sydney bars.
One of the brands I follow on Twitter is Melbourne entrepreneur Adore Beauty @adorebeauty. Kate Morris started her business online from her house and [...] Continue Reading…

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Social Media No Longer Experimental

April 7th, 2009 by Gavin Heaton
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Some time ago a group of Fortune 1000 companies got together to understand, discuss and evaluate the impact of social media on their businesses. The Blog Council, operated by Andy Sernovitz’s Gas Pedal, has 45 big business members – including my own employer, SAP. And although I have no [...] Continue Reading…

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Highlights from SMX Sydney 2009 Conference

April 5th, 2009 by Neerav Bhatt
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Social Media and the Mobile Web were strong themes at the recently concluded SMX Sydney 2009 conference

The best 3 speakers on these topics were:

Cindy Krum (Founder of Rank-Mobile)
Cindy says that organisations should remember that the mobile internet is very different from the internet access people have from their desktop [...] Continue Reading…

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