Social Media

Social Media Day in Adelaide 2011

Published June 30, 2011 | By Steve Davis

smdayToday was Social Media Day, a virtual event organised by Mashable, the online magazine of all things Web 2.0 and Tech.

In Adelaide, the key ‘gathering’ was an online converstation using Twitter and the hashtag #socadl. (NOTE: Using hashtags immediately before words or terms in Twitter, transforms an ordinary word or term into an index term that enables users to thread together all tweets using the particular hashtag into a timeline. #socadl is the term we created in Adelaide to thread together the thoughts and discussions of Adelaideans wishing to contribute on all things social media or social networking).

The official online conversation lasted one hour (although it continued on well into the night) and revolved around five questions. Given that Twitter is notoriously bad for archiving content and the fact that #socadl is used quite a lot outside of this particular conversation, I thought I should do my bit of internet curation and pull together some of the contributions I found most helpful or interesting.

Here are the questions and the comments. Continue reading →

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Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday June 13 2010

Published June 13, 2010 | By Steve Davis

This fortnight in Online Insights, we look at privacy on classifieds sites, piracy, social media, and ironing!!

carsales.com.au’s privacy policy

Privacy and Facebook has been in the news a lot (possibly because news corp owns MySpace, or is that being too cynical?) but I am concerned about privacy in relation to popular classified sites such as carsales.com.au. Here is why.

Yesterday I got an email from City Holden, completely out of the blue. This spam got up my nose more than usual for a few reasons:

  • Firstly, I am NOT in the market for a car.
  • Secondly, it was sent with a high priority notifier, which means it demanded attention that quite simply was not warranted. This is the equivalent of the little boy calling wolf.
  • Thirdly, it was sent with an attachment, which is poor form for any mass mailing, let alone UNSOLICITED mailings. Adding salt to the wound, the email contained a message saying City Holden would not be responsible if the attachment, which I never asked for, contained a virus or damaged my computer.

What wonderfully warm communication, I think not. But this gets better. Continue reading →

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