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Archive for September 2009 – Page 2

Social Media for Young Elite Athletes and Performers

When I first met Michael Jeh, former top cricketer and now staff member at Griffith University on Australia’s Gold Coast, back in June, I was impressed by the story he told me of his Skool Project and was very pleased to sign up. Today I had the privilege of participating. I did a 90 minute

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links for 2009-09-08

David Meerman Scott in Australia Jennifer Frahm's great roundup of the recent visit to Australia by acclaimed social media author David Meerman Scott (tags: social-media marketing pr Australia Sydney Melbourne social-media-club Twitter) Monitor conversations about your brand on social media Jeff Bullas' excellent gloss on the MarketingProfs post (which Jeff links to) on this topic:

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Telstra Shuts Down Corporate Blogging Experiment

  Telstra, Australia’s still-dominant telco, yesterday shut down its corporate blogging site nowwearetalking.com.au CEO David Thodey’s letter announcing the shutdown promised “Telstra will launch a new corporate blogging website later this year”. In keeping with the expressions of opinion from the opinionati when nowwearetalking launched back in 2005, from congratulatory/welcoming through curious/cautious to dismissive, blogosphere commentary

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David Meerman Scott at Social Media Club Sydney

This has been for me a week of social media highs, attending Social Media Club Sydney and the Future of Influence Summit, also in Sydney (with a linked event in San Francisco). So many new ideas and fresh perspectives to consider! One of several particularly memorable experiences of the week was hearing David Meerman Scott,

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