Millennials, aka Gen Y, aka The Plugged in Generation, whatever you call them they are the largest generation of all time and their behaviour is unlike any who have come before them. Born between 1980s – 2000, their size and influence will change the world forever! Retailers need to adapt their businesses to connect with..
It has been interesting watching the birth and growth of the phrase BIG DATA. Some see it as a big scary unwieldy ‘thing’ and other see it as the holy grail – it will deliver magical results but is illusive. A couple of definitions to help understand it: Big Data: noun Extremely large data sets..
Join Us! Click here to view the Hangout. We are talking all things Innovation Pitchfest with Charles Ng & Rex Kuo, creators of Orbitkey www.orbitkey.com. Already entered or interested in entering? Then join us and ask away!! Leave your questions below if you are too shy to chat online and we will discuss. Designers, Inventors &..
Our first ever Innovation Pitchfest was AMAZING!! To read the story and see the pics, click here. To Read more about the current Innovation Pitchfest & Submit product, click here.
Innovation Pitchfest is one of the most rewarding projects I have ever created and had the pleasure seeing to fruition! Winners of the inaugural event were the ecstatic Orbitkey creators Charles Ng & Rex Kuo, worthy winners and the crowd favourites! Pictured here with Tchibo executives, Bastian Grafe and Andreas Kulenkampf. [flagallery gid=65] I have..
CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS & DESIGNERS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A PLATFORM TO TAKE YOUR PRODUCT TO A GLOBAL MARKET? What do the following innovations have in common? The black box flight recorder, bionic ear, plastic bank notes, electronic pacemaker, winged keel, Google maps and spray on skin for burn victims? Apart from being significant inventions..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able To Kill The Music Industry http://buff.ly/1lo0883 via Elite Daily **** “Staff productivity to drop during World Cup 2014” http://buff.ly/SZoR7A > #WorldCup2014 I’m not surprised at all based on friends’ & my activity..
Reed Exhibitions, Tchibo Germany & Magnolia Solutions are delighted to announce a world-first international collaboration to launch Tchibo Innovation Pitchfest; an exciting initiative that sets to expose Australian products to the international marketplace. This partnership showcases Reed Exhibition’s commitment to supporting Australia’s vibrant and innovative retail industry with an influential organisation that sets to provide..
Join us next Friday in Sydney @ Referron, I’m talking about the Connected Customer and how to engage them at BSI Connect. More information here. “The Future of Now: Always On, Always Connected Communication technology unites us, relays news equally with opinion, transports us to worldwide events, and shrinks distances between our relationships. We’re..
Melbourne Retailers & Wholesalers are in for a treat! I am honoured to be part of such a great lineup! Tara Dennis, Jules Brooke, Melissa Hobbs & I are talking retail for a full day at Reed Gift Fairs Burst into 2015 Workshop. Morning Tea, Lunch & Afternoon Tea provided. $132.00 Not to be missed!!..
I’m excited to be a RETAIL HUB expert at Reed Gift Fairs in Sydney in September!! Follow the signs & you will find us at The Retail Hub is at Sydney Exhibition Centre Glebe Island. See the schedule here: http://www.reedgiftfairs.com.au/en/sydney-september/Retail-Hub/ I’m talking all things #Retail, come & say hi: Saturday 20 September @ 11:00 am ..
Thanks Nikki Jae Majewski B&T Magazine, it was great speaking with you & sharing the fun to be had at SMW Sydney http://bit.ly/1wn5PXe SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK : 23 – 27 September I will be hosting and taking part of a retail panel during Social Media Week, ‘The Consumer Journey‘ with wonderful experts: Megan Wilkes: Co-Founder, Q&CO..
I am constantly baffled as to why profit is achieved by slashing costs & not by increasing sales by putting well trained sales people on the floor in Australian Department Stores?? Constant poor results are indicative that it is not a viable strategy!! I got my 2c in on last night’s ABC News 24 The Business..
I am using cool tools from i-Proximity to show retailers & Exhibitors how easy it is to use tech tools to connect with their customers! IBEACONS, NFC TAGS & TAPBOARDS are all tools your customer is already using in other stores – time for you to see how easy and effective they are!! You will..
I’m excited to be a RETAIL HUB expert at Reed Gift Fairs in Melbourne in August #ReedRetailHub The Retail Hub is in The Future Brands Pavilion at The Melbourne Showgrounds! I’m talking all things #Retail, come & say hi: Saturday 2 August @ 2:30 pm Retail Fundamentals Sunday 3 August @ 1:00 pm Customer Service..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** EVENT: “Gamification & Social Media As Weapons to Increasing Audience Engagement”, Theresa Lim 8 July http://buff.ly/VAWSgz **** Great post from presenter Theresa Lim “Top 6 Ways To Make Your Next Event Truly Experiential!” http://buff.ly/1ltp3me **** Creating cool images..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Interesting!! “Apple trademarks its stores” He was a smart man!! “Steve Jobs placed a great deal of emphasis on distinctive shop design, stating that “Unless we could find a way to get our message to customers at the..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** People please stop creating personal profiles instead of Business Pages on Facebook! You need a personal profile to create a page: http://buff.ly/1isogaE REMEMBER: all of the cool things happen on your website / blog & social media is..
Sometimes we just need a reminder, tip or suggestion to recalibrate our business. These are 7 Tips to help Retailers recalibrate: 1. Adopt a service culture / focus in your store – Make it easy to deal with you – including: Staff attitude, language and behavior Product selection Service process Delivery on & offline..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT Posse: Hit the #SydneyFilmFestival and ask the Program Gurus for their recommendations on the perfect movie to watch today. http://buff.ly/SSa6n4 **** Finally a retailer who understands the Aust customer is not going to be price gouged! RT..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I was interviewed by Jamie Smyth for this Financial Times article: “International invaders shake up Australia’s home grown retailers” http://buff.ly/1tw0SbB **** @Starbucks know their customer, what they want and how to deliver it, retailers take note! #customer #ux..
4 April 2014 :: I was interviewed for this piece by Jamie Smyth in Sydney ©Getty “In a country whose previously isolated landscape has been devastated by the introduction of rabbits, foxes and other invasive species, Australia is facing its latest incursion: foreign retailers. H&M opens its first store in Australia on Saturday as..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I have noticed this happening – share this on your personal pages with your friends on facebook: **** My heart is broken that the wonderful Maya Angelou has passed away. Thank you teacher for your wisdom, kindness &..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** SEMINAR: I’m talking Social Media & Business at Keith Tulloch Wine in The Hunter Valley 20 May @ 5.30pm. Please join us for this Free event, places are limited. http://buff.ly/1rYuCwX **** RT Optus Business: Did you catch our..
@PayPalAu are shouting Sydney CBDers a coffee today!! It’s a great way of showing how easy it is to pay on the go with your digital wallet & giving people a much needed Monday coffee!! Simple & Easy: Download the App here: http://bit.ly/1n7Wge0 & use it to pay for your coffee at one of the..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** SEMINAR: I’m talking Social Media & Business at Keith Tulloch Wine in The Hunter Valley 20 May @ 5.30pm. Please join us for this Free event, places are limited. http://buff.ly/1rYuCwX **** EVENT: ‘Lessons Learned By A Woman In..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** SEMINAR: I’m talking Social Media & Business at Keith Tulloch Wine in The Hunter Valley 20 May @ 5.30pm. Please join us for this Free event, places are limited. http://buff.ly/1rYuCwX **** EVENT: ‘Lessons Learned By A Woman In..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** EVENT: Join Us for our May meetup! ‘Lessons Learned By A Woman In Media’ Jane Huxley, @Pandora_Music MD: 13 May www.socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com.au **** Read what I & other retail experts think: RT Retail Express: Our expert panel shares predictions..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** #Flugs: the answer to broken flip flop / thongs. $6:95 freight free in Australia www.flugs.com.au #clientlove **** TONIGHT! Learn how to build a business using social media! Join us 8 April: SoNailicious: Success in Cut Throat Beauty Industry..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I love Iris Apfel ~ an inspiration on so many levels! ~~ “Fashion and interior design are one and the same.” Style icon Iris Apfel gives YOU a peek inside her treasures: http://on.elle.com/1pB8Z6C **** RT PSFK: Trending: Watch..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** @lucysiegle asks “Is Fast Fashion Wearing Out The World?” ~ I have been thinking about this since fashion has become cheaper, more accessible and sadly ‘disposable’… Great article! Read it here. Seeing Lucy Seigle at #AllAboutWomen, register here…
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** My Preso ‘How to Use Social Media for Business’ + The Business Crew taster @ Champion Legal 19 March <Free> Register Here. **** Let’s Hangout & Talk Exceptional Customer Service with Nancy Georges, The Retail Miss Fix It,..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** FREE EVENT: SOCIAL MEDIA WOMEN: Build Your Community, Making Your Idea a Reality! “Real Food Low Tox Living Community Story” with Alexx Stuart: 11 March #health #blogging Register here. **** This is simply stunning!! Thanks Kate Carruthers :stunning..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Reed Gift Fairs was much fun but also a great opportunity for the retail community to connect. I am working with wholesalers and retailers in many ways; training, strategy and execution. Please contact me if you would like..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I cannot speak highly enough of Reed Gift Fairs & The Retail Hub series. I was so happy to be a part of it & meet the other speakers & inspirational retailers, some of who came to the..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Come & say ‘Hi!’ at RETAIL HUB at @Reed Gift Fairs this Saturday – Tuesday at Glebe Island (new home) http://buff.ly/1hGWR0l #ReedRetailHub I’m talking all things #Retail: Saturday 15 Feb @ 2:30 pm Retail Fundamentals Sunday 16 Feb..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT Katy Daniells: What’s Trending, YouTube Music Awards and the rise of social TV http://buff.ly/1eJGVva >will only get better, despite what the nay-sayers say! **** #supportlocalretail #shoplocal “Dick Smith has a challenge for Tony Abbott, as he relaunches..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I have been asked to be a eunèv Brightspark & am connecting with so many people! EVENT ORGANISERS, VENUES, TALENT: Learn all about eunèv & how to use it Social Media Women 12 Nov www.socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com.au
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Promoting a Retail seminar, starts with “Arguably the single most important issue for retailers today is the environment.” WHAT THE?? How out of touch?!!
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT storewindows: Chanel in Thailand http://buff.ly/1b5qGCY #windowdisplay > chouette!!
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** We had such a great time last night thank you Universal Pictures Australia. #AboutTime is a MUST if you want to laugh, cry & enjoy a movie!! I got lost in the story & this beautiful family x..
Social Currency in play here; Got 10,000 followers on Instagram? You can stay at 8Hotels in Sydney for free! I love that this made the Los Angeles Times. I read it on Interiors Addict blog a couple of months ago too. via Raz Chorev The Sydney 1888 Hotel is owned by 8Hotels has been created..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Dig Festival was an amazing 2 days, here’s a snapshot: #DiGFestival #colcons being discussed in the context of the collaborative consumer – this is a very important shift in behaviour that will affect business models everywhere! #DiGFestival Interesting..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT @dig_festival: BIG NEWS: Jeff Julian – Hollywood design legend to KEYNOTE at #DiGFestival http://t.co/Yxyik45UxE > The countdown is on, I think tix still available for this great 2 day event! **** Great post on Crowd Funding Your..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I attended Google for Entrepreneurs Women 2013 & here are some selected posts: #Gfew2103 #startupaus 3 SHIFTS happening today: 1. Everything 2. Everyone 3. Everything. All facilitated through the cloud. Making it easier to start a business today..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Social Currency in play here; Got 10,000 followers on Instagram? You can stay at 8Hotels in Sydney for free! I love that this made the Los Angeles Times. I read it on Interiors Addict blog a couple of..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Great example of Social Media conversation: Madonna on Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Almost Anything’ session. Click here to see the ‘conversation’. **** Lots of fun & raising awareness for breast and ovarian cancer. From Pink Hope Community “Check out..
You’re Invited!! For centuries people have connected, bonded, shared experiences & made memories over food. Social Media has changed the way we connect, the things we share & removed borders. This month we have 3 Fabulous Foodies who have built great connected communities around different areas who used Social Media to build their business: The..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** @tetrisventures Great article: The Shift to Curation as King vs.c Original Content http://goo.gl/bFPZjC **** I am SO EXCITED to announce that JWLZ‘s online store is OPEN! #ShopLocal #ClientLove http://www.jwlz.com.au/ **** RT @andrewmic: RT @AdamMGrant: Good guys finish first… eventually,..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I am so excited to be attending & speaking at the Dig Festival in October, this is a great event – who else is joining us?! read more here **** SHARING GREAT RETAIL: The 1st time I visited..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I really enjoyed Alex Ritchie’s talk on Urbanism at Creative Mornings Sydney, read more & see the pics here. **** We had a great Social Media Women Meetup last week! Checkout the posts on my Storify. Thank you..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** I am so excited to be attending & speaking at the Dig Festival in October, this is a great event – who else is joining us?! read more here **** Is Sheryl Sandberg being targeted more than a..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** EVENT: Social Media Women 13 August : Collaborative Consumption: What is it? Why should we care? How do we integrate it into our businesses if at all?? We look at 2 businesses who have been built on it…
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Social Media Parenting is a minefield for so many parents. We’re talking about this on Real Chat Monday 10:30am on Google Hangout. All you need is a gmail address – you can watch the video feed or you..
Quintessential Parisian Shop front ~ don’t under estimate the power of the visual to grab attention and tell a story…. I just went to Paris and back…:-)) Merci Vogue Paris. Great weekend guide to Paris here, enjoy the trip!
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** @Apple has a $146.6 billion Cash Hoard…. @TurnbullMalcolm another reason Govt should be run like a business?? via Business Insider Australia Read more here. **** This is so disappointing!! “The gender pay (pocket money) gap exists among children”..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** RT @tomskotidas An insightful conversation emerging on @adthorp’s LinkedIn newsfeed, topic: Social Selling: Read it here >agree totally that selling skills and customer awareness are vital and if you don’t have that then you are doomed online! ****..
We had another super ‘Real Chat’ on Google Hangout on Friday! Nancy Georges and Joahnna Baker-Dowdell chatted with Karalyn Brown about the ins & outs of Linkedin and her article “Why are there so few women in LinkedIn Top 100 most connected people?” Read it here. We also discussed tips on how to use and..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Another fabulous #RealChat with @JohannaBD & Karalyn Brown @InterviewIQ, all about LinkedIn this morning, watch it here: http://youtu.be/JGNODQZX6wY **** RT @masatostudio Anya Hindmarch: no ordinary bag lady – Telegraph http://ht.ly/mG9vS via @TeleFashion **** RT @markwoodrow: 5 consumer trends..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. Only 1 in 3 parents read to their kids every night ~ I am surprised by this figure!! via @BookazineHK ~ I was a fan of the #greatretail Bookazine HK stores in my travels, then I had the supreme..
This morning’s Real Chat on Google Hangout with +Johanna Baker-Dowdell was on Writing your own Book: Conception to publishing, which we have both done. My book is ‘7 Powerful Ways To Boost Retail Profits, In Any Economic Climate‘. Johanna’s book is ‘Business & Baby On Board‘ on Twitter: @bizbabyonboard and on Facebook. View the Real Chat..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. This morning’s Real Chat with +Johanna Baker-Dowdell was on Writing your own Book: Conception to publishing, view here : http://youtu.be/VB7Kz6xa7lk **** RT @timrayner01: Big Brother and Silicon Valley @NewYorker , read more here. **** RT @petecripps: Facebook Reveals How Often the..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. #EVENT: @TheFetchSYD & @Canva’s @hannahdemilta is up tonight: Sharing her Blogger Tips & Tricks + Strategic Insight into How Brands & Influencers Can Work Together. New Venue! @Bar_100 100 George St, Sydney BAR 100 www.socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com **** RT @reuvengorsht: Walmart..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. #TIP of the DAY: RT @karinasilva: I wish businesses would get that we’re happy to give them our money WHEN/IF real value is delivered! #advocacy #UX – I SO AGREEEEEEE Karina!! (following my post about St George below) ****..
This morning’s Real Chat on Google Hangout with Nancy Georges+ Johanna Baker-Dowdell was on Crowd Funding, I have been watching this mode for a while and Johanna funded her book by Crowd Funding. Johanna’s book is ‘Business & Baby On Board‘ on Twitter: @bizbabyonboard and on Facebook.
We had a great meetup at our Social Media Speak Easy, being a Social Media 101 chat, we didn’t have a lot of tweeting and posting but here is a quick recap, click on the image to see the whole post. Click here to see pics from the meetup.
Real Chat; real people, real examples, real info! I often get asked questions about business and social media & I know interesting talented people – so I thought I would combine them! Using the great technology of the Google Hangout, we will be chatting every 2 weeks (more or less depending on schedules!) about different..
Checkout the 1st Real Chat Google Hangout! @JohannaBD from Strawberry Communications: Writing & PR & I chatted about social media on Friday & next week we re talking crowd funding! These will be fortnightly chats. Same bat time: Fridays @ 11am -> Same bat channel: Google+ Hangout! Real Chat; real people, real examples, real info!
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. #TIP of the Day: When hiring staff, do a few exercises with them that reflect day to day tasks in their job. eg: transcribing information a customer gives them into the computer, folding stock, answering the phone etc..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. According to ARA’s @RussellZimmerman, Retailers need to stay up to date with technology, cause customers are mobile! Retailers to learn more about mobile, what customers are doing & what you need to do to engage them, read article..
The first thing I thought when I read that Nike and Liberty of London had collaborated and designed a shoe that as a fusion of the iconic prints with the world renowned shoes was – “What the??” At first glance I wouldn’t have thought that the Nike customer would be into the Liberty prints… but..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. I am really looking forward to @media140au’s next meetup “Mobile Technology & The Customer: Navigating the Evolution”. Our Expert Panel: Peter Paterson – EMarketingConnected, Shane Williamson – Mobile Monday Sydney & Andy Jamieson – Switched on Media. 28 May,..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. RT @razchorev: The smartest article I read this year! >>Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly. http://buff.ly/13gF1uA **** We are busily adding new products to the new Contents: Party + Christmas + Home website we..
#BoycottMyer – Bernie Brooks’ comment on NDIS levy outrages decent people… I created a storify post on the tweets so far: “What was he thinking??”, below, or click here to view on storify. People didn’t need another excuse not to shop at Myer!! Poor Service has been one of the biggest complaints from customers who..
I had the pleasure of talking social media on Eastside Radio. You can listen to the podcast here: http://eastsidefm.org/2013/04/women-in-social-media/ **** RT @thetweetailer: Neat use of outdoor. Nike using holograms in posters to demonstrate flexibility of new Nike Frees. http://t.co/682CVwBGyj **** #BoycottMyer – Bernie Brooks’ comment on NDIS levy outrages decent people… I created a storify..
I have posted Part 2 of the extended version of my article on Social Media for Hair Salons that appears in Culture Magazine April 2013. Part 1 of the longer version of the article, can be read here & Part 2 can be read here. Click here to read the article in the magazine.
I wrote an article on Social Media for Hair Salons that appears in Culture Magazine April 2013. Part 1 of the longer version of the article, can be read here & Part 2 can be read here. Click here to read the article in the magazine. ********* RT @andrewmic M&S open a Food store w E-..
RT @andrewmic: Interesting thinking from @rexster on learning for biz from Gaming, click here to read, cc @briansolis @eddieharran ****** RT @matthewgain: 10 Tips to Negotiate in Business, click here to read, via @ShareThis ****** RT @foxinflats High 5s 2 the Top 100 Finalists #voicesof2013.Thrilled @FoxInFlats is nominated! http://t.co/lEFs1i7TjA >of COURSE u r!! x ******..
#EVENT: The Greatest Gift Living Wholesomely, Inside & Out | 20 APRIL 2013 | Mosman Art Gallery & Community Centre Judith Cantor is organising The Greatest Gift™ is a wellness event just for you! A day of workshops and seminars on living life wholesomely – inside and out. More info here on the site. The..
I AM SO CHUFFED!! + to be on the same list as @MaryPortas(My Queen) is SUPER!! #10 of 100 is pretty cool too!! RT @ecretail: Congratulations @NancyGeorges! You made our list of the March 2013 Top 100 Retailers to Follow on Twitter – http://t.co/amcbdnuauz **** This is a great article to help understand how retailers..
I AM SO CHUFFED!! + to be on the same list as @MaryPortas (My Queen) is SUPER!! #10 of 100 is pretty cool too!! RT @ecretail: Congratulations @NancyGeorges! You made our list of the March 2013 Top 100 Retailers to Follow on Twitter – http://t.co/amcbdnuauz **** Nick D’Aloisio has put SOCIAL SEARCH in the spotlight..
NEXT WEEK: media140 1st 2013 event ‘Women, Social Media & Influence” Sydney 26 March. If you market to women, this is for you! tix: bit.ly/3ldT4y Great Panel leading the discussion: Deborah Bibby, editor of Real Living Magazine, author & journalist Cassandra Wilkinson, author & columnist Kerri Sackville & former news presenter, now advisor to Govt..
I had the pleasure of being invited to Covermore Travel Insurance to meet Dan Moore, or Dan The Man, as I am now calling him! Dan won a tough competition, entrants had to create their own submissions, view his below. I love this campaign from Covermore; we vote on where Dan goes and what he..
This is a not to miss event. Created out of the mind of the wonderful Joy Hopwood – The Wong Side of Life “Come to our charity show at The Concourse on the 25th March 2013. FOOD FOR THE SOUL FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD. 10% of profits go towards Cancer Council. http://premier.ticketek.com.au/Shows/Show.aspx?sh=WONGSIDE13#.UT3OB4JLfLY **** via..
Congrats to Lisa Messenger & her team! They have just released the 1st issue of Messenger Collective. I’m really enjoying reading it!! It’s like: a great mag + social media news & stream + chat with a friend!! xx *********** 8 March 2013: On this wonderful International Women’s Day, congrats to the lovely Joy Hopwood..
Another great example of ‘Crowd Sourcing’ AND great retail here from Country Road. Country Road know: their market that know that their customers are perfectly aligned to the brand they know that when they ask their customers what they want, they can develop that product and their customers will buy it The other ‘great retail’..
RT @media140au: #TWITTER A guide to the law – “A tweet is potentially libellous” Taming the ‘Fifth estate’ now everyone’s a publisher http://t.co/JmtaqZPZhb *********** ‘Yahoo CEO bans Working At Home’, Why The Controversy? click here to read more *********** YAY!!! West Elm, Pottery Barn & Williams-Sonoma coming to Bondi! Read more here @ Interiors Addict..
To understand how random viral videos are, watch this from The Sydney Morning Herald – www.smh.com.au “How The Harlem Shake found its feet”. Watch the video here. The Harlem Shake was originally just music no video or dance; watch / listen to it here on You Tube It. It has have over 12 million views!..
Jamie Oliver crowd sources his menu backs for Perth. “Help me guys !! What menu back shall I choose for Perth Australia.. I’m at the printers and I just can’t decide I have a favourite but I’m not saying what do u think the Aussies will like?? Big love peeps #jamie xxxxxx” This only works..
Putting together great speakers for Social Media Women & media140 events this year! 1st media140 : 26 March in Sydney . Register & check out the next few events click here *********** The ever talented Garance Dore talks business with Imran Amed. click here to read *********** This is interesting via media140 :”#VALENTINES Something you..
this. is. so. cool!! I had one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012! I cannot endorse LinkedIn enough!!! ******** RT @huffpostfood: 10 restaurant chains that are changing their image http://t.co/35RNiKKv ******** This week I was in Mumbai for the Asia Retail Congress so was a light news week! You can see..
I’m media140’s Community Manager, Sydney! Such a great addition to my wonderful clients! Read more here. ********* Seems online ‘bargain sites’ are leaving a lot of people unhappy, read more here. ********* Cute Store Window: Bowerbird Emporium; click here to view. ********* RT @inc: “Company leaders think that if they have a vision or aspirations,..
RT Sheryl Sandberg “If we are going to change gender stereotypes, it will take all of us – women and men alike – working together. One of the main messages of Lean In.” click here to read ************ RT @mashable: Why You Can’t Say Hashtag in France http://t.co/iuvbw7Ep ************ Sir Richard Branson “I don’t think..
I think ‘ordinary’ people can be courageous in extra-ordinary circumstances. Don’t assume you will ever do or not do anything until you are in that circumstance. Victoria Soto was a teacher who lost her life at the terrible Connecticut shooting. She put her students in a closet & told them to be quiet. She told..
A brand shouldn’t be afraid to say sorry lnkd.in/yUhn-J from @1000heads lnkd.in/cPtVzs ************ Last night I had the pleasure of meeting @quickness, Dario Meli, one of the founders of Hootsuite & Invoke & Joanna Riquett who have created the very cool, clever Quietly. Read more here: http://bit.ly/Um9rqf ************ Going to City Talks & UTSpotlight w..
RT @petecripps: Is it time for Brands to take Google+ seriously? (There’s No Avoiding Google+) http://ow.ly/gzAmX > One of the things I will focus more on this year myself! ******* A must-read for business owners: Top Facebook Mistakes Made By SMEs, from an informed expert David Olsen: http://thesocialdisruption.net/2012/11/top-facebook-mistakes-made-by-smes/ ******** 13 little mistakes that will sabotage..
I so often see QR codes plonked onto adverts without explainaton, this tells me 2 things, either: They don’t understand what they are or how to use them and have been told to add them It was an after thought and not part of the strategy Either way, it does not bode well for the..
This is the 2nd part of my article on Pinterest, please click here to go to the first article. THE INFOGRAPHIC The infographic below is informative, not only does it help people understand Pinterest, but it shows that Social is driving more traffic than Search (not surprising, is it?). This infographic is from December 2011..