YOUR CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS CONNECTED – ARE YOU & YOUR BUSINESS? TICKETS HERE. Communication technology unites us, relays news equally with opinion, transports us to worldwide events, and shrinks distances between our relationships. We’re tuning into events that we’ve never before been able to access and witnessing other people’s experiences unfold in real-time. Our communications..
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..
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 ..
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..
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. **** 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..
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 post from culture Magazine on Facebook on Beyonce’s new pixi haircut was a great example of me practicing what I preach… I decided a while ago not to sprout vitriol and pointless opinion in social media, over a drink with friends face-to-face is another matter as it is chatting in context. This decision helped..
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..
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..
A great post on Facebook from Gelato Messina on their price increases. I am sure true purveyors of quality hand crafted products will get it & these people ARE their customers after all!! Nicely handled! I LOVE people’s comments underneath the post too!! Check out their website too, yum! Ultimately, it came to this: “Essentially..
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 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..
A great event!! The topic was “Mobile Technology & The Customer, Navigating the Evolution” Thank you to the panel Peter Paterson eMarketing Connected: Website + Linkedin + Twitter: @petepaterson Dan Richardson Switched on Media: Website + Linkedin + Twitter: @Shortlisted Shane Williamson Mobile Mondays + Universal Convergence Website + Linkedin +..
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) ****..
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.
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..
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..
C’mon down folks – I am going to have a weekly Google Hangout to chat all things social media, retail, business etc Strawberry Communications: Writing & PR‘s Johanna Baker-Dowdell is joining me & is going to share her insight and experience too! Join us at 10.30am Friday on the Google Hangout Live for The Real..
Twitter is a true connector, sometimes in a random way!! There are so many cool people and organisations that I would never discover if not for Twitter. A special buzz when a Disney VP connect with me on Twitter and today – SANTA CLAUS!!!!! Love it!!
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..
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 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..
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..
Great example of customer engagement ~ handwritten note is a gorgeous touch! via Burberry “A handwritten note to Burberry Facebook fans from Christopher Bailey – Watch the show live on the Burberry Facebook page today, 4pm London time” In case you don’t know, Christopher Bailey is Burberry’s Chief Creative Officer.
There are so many people who are posting “Please ‘Like’ this so my Mum will buy me a fish” etc It was cute in the beginning, but now there are people posting their disgust and frustration under pictures. Now this is the type of ‘Asking for Likes’ I think is appropriate. Gorgeous little man ♥..
I had the pleasure of presenting “Consumer Behaviour Today & The Impact on Business” to a great group of people. Thank you for having me Gen Connect & for the great feedback on my presentation. . Follow the tweets #GenConnect here. Learn more about Generation Connect here. . [flagallery gid=23 name=Gallery]
Clients and seminar attendees would know I talk about Businesses needing to create a Strategy & know how their customer behaves online and offline before jumping into Social Media. Brian Solis, a PR & Social Media Expert says businesses doing it wrong, he was interviewed by Des Moines Register, read the article here. ..
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..
For those of us who have been using Pinterest for a while now, we are not surprised that Pinterest has become the ultimate connecting & sharing tool. I started using it in May 2011, I try almost everything new, it’s my job, but Pinterest was different from the beginning, I LOVED IT and found it..
For those of us who have been using Pinterest for a while now, we are not surprised that Pinterest has become the ultimate connecting & sharing tool. Pinterest, for those who do not know what it is, is an online bookmarking tool / pin board. The technology allows us to do what comes naturally; see..
I really enjoyed my ‘chat’ with Lisa McAuley @ Australian Institute of Export. I am going to producing a lot of great podcasts in 2012. In this podcast we discuss Social Media for business. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace: new media channels that are particularly powerful and cost-effective weapons in the battle to reach global audiences,..
“More Recruiters Like Facebook – gaining on Linkedin http://t.co/uYvNnuj via @WSJ” Interesting read considering some of the chatter is that people are bored on Facebook…. although I just advise to get more interesting friends!!
With all the focus on Social Media at the moment being about ROI and sales, it is nice just to let the ‘Social’ take centre stage! To see all of my pictures, please click here. Denea, editor of Gourmet Rabbit, @GourmetRabbit on twitter (in ‘Twitter-speak” this denotes a person’s ‘Twitter Handle’ or their name /..
In July I was presenting Social Media Seminars at the GHA (Gift & Homewares Australia) Home & Giving Trade Show to Exhibitors and Retailers. It quickly became apparent to me that I was largely talking to an audience that had not yet dipped it’s toe into the online space let alone considered Social Media as a..
I think this is a great illustration of how prolific the use of social media is. It is updated as you view so sit down with a cup of coffee and take it all in! Thank you to Gary Hayes who supplied the links on his site : http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/
Blogs (short for Weblog) are the closest thing to a website of all the social media. Blogs are prolific at the moment. Visitors are invited to ‘follow’ or subscribe to’ the Blog. They are updated every time there is a new update, or ‘post’ in blog-speak. There is the facility for visitors to leave comments and interact with the author of the blog as well as each other.
Have you read Social Media 101 – Part 1 & Part 2? This post will make more sense if you have. 1. https://magnoliasolutions.com.au/2009/10/12/social-media-101-part-1/ 2. https://magnoliasolutions.com.au/2009/10/13/social-media-101-part-2/ We have covered; What is Social Media and Networking sites MySpace & Facebook. Twitter (www.twitter.com) is the social media of the moment, despite starting in 2006. Twitter asks users to..
Have you read Social Media 101 – Part 1? This post will make more sense if you have. https://magnoliasolutions.com.au/2009/10/12/social-media-101-part-1/ To understand where we are now, let’s look back a few years. My Space (www.myspace.com) was launched in 2003 and quickly became ‘the’ must-join site. It predominantly engaged and was used by Gen Y, artists and..
The way we communicate, promote and brand our business has changed forever with the emergence of Social Media. The old rules are obsolete and now is the time to embrace the new media and take full advantage of the new communication age. In an increasingly competitive market, retailers need to stand out from the crowd..