Congratulations to our fabulous winners of the Innovation Pitchfest Top 20: 31 Day Happy Pills by Short Story Babyhood Kaylula Sova Clear 5 In 1 Cot by Bobby Bebe Pty Ltd Bella Baby Bag by Lyn’s Label Cerachef Colour Changing Cookware by MNB Variety Imports Pty Ltd Cool Stool (Patent Pending) by Red Elk Creative..
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..
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 am so excited to be speaking at DiG Festival this year!! Thursday 16 October : Presentation: Why Every Business is a Retailer Workshop: Customer Service in the age of ‘Me’ Panel: The Future of Retail Newcastle, the capital of the Hunter Valley, will play host to the inaugural DiG Festival and Conference. Design +..
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..
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..
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..
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..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** thanks @servantofchaos “Facebook Just Killed A Privacy Setting, So It’s A Good Time To Do Your Own Checkup” **** STAY for free if you have over 100 000 instagram followers at Hotel 888. **** RT @servantofchaos RT @kiwilark..
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..
If you don’t already know, I organise fabulous Social Media Women meetups on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Click here to visit the website. September’s topic was ‘Social Food: Building Communities using social media’ with Carmel Ruggeri Sicilian Food Tours, Sara McCleary Belly Rumbles & Cenk Baban Social Dinner Club sharing the food &..
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..
DiG FESTIVAL: 3 – 4 October 2013 I am so excited to be speaking about “Retail in the Age of the Empowered Customer‘ at this inaugural event! Newcastle, the capital of the Hunter Valley, will play host to the inaugural DiG Festival and Conference from October 2-5, 2013. Design + Interactive + Green-tech = DiG..
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…
The internet has revolutionised our world. The next generation of the digital revolution is called ‘The Internet of Things’. More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models and disrupt existing business models. Kate Carruthers shared her insight into this next..
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..
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! ****..
This page is updated during the week! To see other News Room updates please click here. **** Retail is facing so many challenges, most will be conquered with education, awareness & collaboration…. however ridiculous retail rents and lack of support by council are issues that must be addressed!! **** I love Polyvore. I created Coast..
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..
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.
Please join me tomorrow on Google+ Hangout for ‘Real Chat’! I wanted to create a space where we can chat live – face to face – email to face – in person about social media, business, retail, crowd sourcing, crowd funding & the new world we all find ourselves in! I’ll be joined by Johanna..
As the organiser and co-founder of Social Media Women, I invite you to Register now for our Free 19 Feb meetup! Kate Carruthers shares her insight and enlightens us on “What is Crowd Funding?” REGISTER & MORE INFO HERE + Check out Moore’s Cloud Kate & Mark Pesce’s latest project, here.
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