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A week in November dedicated to how to use social media tools for business In some recent social media workshops I’ve been struck by how much appreciation there has been when we presenters have taken some trouble to explain and demonstrate how various social media tools work. Even down to basics like how you go…
Next week, on September 29, I’m teaming up with Associate Professor Michael Rees of Bond University to deliver a one day workshop for businesses in the Brisbane (Australia) area on social media. Then the following week, on October 2, we do that again on the Gold Coast. (Update: Brisbane workshop now postponed to a date…
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,…
Thinking about the Future of Influence Summit I’ll be attending in Sydney this coming week, and having an abiding interest in the derivation of words, I looked up “influence” in my Collins English Dictionary and was interested to see that although the meanings listed for the noun were not terribly helpful (e.g. “an effect of…
As regular readers and subscribers will know, one of the things I do these days is look after the Australia and New Zealand market for social media release platform PitchEngine. Some exciting news for me this week on the PitchEngine front, with particularly practical implications for the many Australian and NZ companies marketing into China…
According to a new survey on business applications of social media, blogging is not old news, but actually looks set for a bright future. Although it suits some commentators to proclaim the demise of blogging, Josh Gordon in his report The Coming Change in Social Media Business Applications, says that blogging is shaping up, along…