Every year Australia’s major youth focused radio station holds a poll to pick the 100 most popular tracks for the last twelve months. This poll is called the Hottest 100, it is rather popular. Continue reading →

During the panel the #SXSMROI Twitter stream was full of comments following this theme. Many commented that Social Media’s value for business shouldn’t be measured in terms of money, either the loss, saving or acquisition thereof. Continue reading →

Online, reading and news are doing OK. It’s just writing and journalism as a profession that seems to be in trouble. Specifically journalism, at least according to the current narrative. The big problem is that writing is easy, and with the Internet, publication is even simpler. Continue reading →

The short version is that when someone with a Google+ account performs a search while logged in, results drawn from content they or their friends have posted through Google+ will be a part of the results. Continue reading →

Last year the UK branch of Ben & Jerry’s announced that they were abandoning email marketing and switching to social media as their main means to keep in touch with their customers. Continue reading →

Remember Diaspora? Last year, just as the press started to criticise Facebook over privacy issues, a social network called Diaspora appeared on Kickstarter. It was just in time to be the plucky start-up positioned as an open, user-driven social network, diametrically opposed to Facebook’s evil empire. Continue reading →