1 day ago

The internet is a changing beast and in the next few years it will look very different – not just a sea of .coms, .govs and .nets but a white wash of .whatever .you .can .imagine. Leading the way is the salacious .xxx but ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is opening the doo ...

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10 days ago

I’m seeing more and more spam comments on my Google+ posts, so stumbling across this Chrome extension today was a Godsend. I always use the Chrome browser from Google for my Google interactions, including Gmail and G+. This browser extension puts a ‘nuke’ button next to comments so you can dismiss t ...

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12 days ago

Just before Christmas I was sent a new Kindle by Amazon. Very kind of them! I was too busy using it to write a blog post in time for the Christmas rush, but there’s never a wrong time to write about something you like (a lot) so here’s my review of it. It’s light, easy to use and very easy on the ey ...

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23 days ago

I’ve been working with local governments over the last few months, helping them with their social media strategies and engagement tactics, and one thing that has particularly struck me is the disconnect between the people charged with carrying out the council’s online communication and the decision- ...

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30 days ago

Tweet Guest post by Sam Peters. Note: Sam writes about the US political scene, but her thinking equally applies to our Australian milieu. The upcoming presidential race will be the first one occurring in a world fully accustomed to social media. Back in 2008, Twitter had barely begun to take flight ...

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31 days ago

Tweet Yesterday I talked about sharpening your saw in 2012; here’s a great opportunity to do just that. Ark Group Australia is running a great conference on Internal Comms across in Melbourne, 21-23 Feb. You can hear great case studies and breaking news from the likes of: Australian Taxation Office; ...

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32 days ago

Tweet This business communication world of ours is changing at a faster pace than ever before, principally brought about by the emergence of the social world. People can share ideas, philosophies, likes and hates at lightening speed, and most companies are ill-resourced to be able to match the speed ...

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32 days ago

Tweet Back only a few short years ago—say, a decade—if your company became the focus of attention for the wrong reasons you had plenty of time to prepare a response. You could compose your media releases, prep your CEO and organise your mainstream media response. That was then. This is now. Today th ...

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67 days ago

Yesterday I came across an image that rocked me to my core. It’s been a while since a photograph pulled such an emotive response out of me, but the National Geographic photo of a polar bear and an ice-breaking ship brought tears to my eyes, especially when just underneath the photo were the words, T ...

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78 days ago

Forbes Magazine has a great article on how major companies are just not ‘getting it’ when it comes to Facebook and social media. Says Forbes: Dealing with customers on social sites reveals "a fundamental shift in customer service," March says. Complaints used to be viewed as a nuisance, but ignoring ...

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