How Queensland Police used Facebook to deliver news in a crisis

On The Australian the Queensland Police Service outlines how they used Facebook to proactively deliver news during the recent Queensland floods. What stands out is the way the usually conservative QPS embedded social media into their daily processes. Social media was no longer an afterthought to keep Gen-Y’s entertained but a part of their core [...]

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Twitter and Facebook for Real Estate Agents

I conducted Twitter and Facebook for Real Estate Agents yesterday. As the course involved hands on computing it was interesting to see the variety of skills on display. I was thrilled to see the lights come on for some. Where once they were thinking that social media as just another way to advertise property now [...]

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Twitter backgrounds: A rough layout guide

Here’s how I layout a Twitter background. It gives displays well on smaller screen sizes while the using Twitter’s background color to make the image look bigger on larger screens. I should point out that the [background area] will be, in the main hidden behind the Twitter feed area so don’t put anything important in [...]

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Twitter growth hits the skids

It seems that the growth in visitors to Twitter has stopped in its tracks. At least for the moment. According to Mashable, Twitter’s growth flatlined in May with only a 1.47% increase. What does this mean? For a start the decline could be an anomaly. For example, the number of Twitter accounts using desktop clients [...]

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Twitter – Conversation or Broadcast Platform?

There’s much rhetoric about Twitter being a gigantic conversation, a party where everyone’s interacting and sharing. But perhaps it’s too early to think about Twitter this way. Brian Solis thinks so. Solis believes that Twitter is still primarily a broadcast platform. It’s that way because most users are yet to understand how it can be [...]

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When was Twitter launched?

A friend on Twitter posed a question in the form of a statement recently. She asked, “Still searching for the full official launch birthdate of Twitter! Only got March 2006 so far…Even tweeted the creators!”. It was an innocent enough request. In reading Foucault’s Nietzsche, Genealogy, History I can’t help but think about posing the [...]

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Making the most of hashtags

Hashtags on Twitter are a way to create groupings or channels. Channels can be used to filter information that relates to an event, product, service, person, geographical location. See the earlier post by Chris Messina. Subscribe to the RSS feed for any hashtag here. Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata [...]

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