Australian Twitter users have helped to locate a Melbourne teenager who had indicated on her Tumblr blog that she intended to kill herself. The girl, who is believed to be 18, posted an image that said “Suic_de” and another reading “Something I’ll commit” along with a note saying she loved her family and was sorry. [...]
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Insurers: keep holidays off social media
December 19, 2011
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The insurance industry is urging holidaymakers to keep their travel plans off social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to reduce the risk of burglary over Christmas. Insurance Council of Australia Executive Director and CEO Rob Whelan said protecting personal information is an essential part of reducing the risk of burglary and car theft [...]
Read more Sydney the world’s 7th most social airport
December 14, 2011
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Facebook has ranked Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith airport seventh in a list of the 25 “most social” airports in the world. It is also the highest ranked airport outside the United States, which boasts eight airports in the top 10. To compile the list, Facebook analysed data gathered between August 2010 and November 2011 from Facebook Places [...]
Read more Combatting domestic violence with social media
November 25, 2011
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To mark White Ribbon Day today, men around the country are being encouraged to join the pledge to never to commit, excuse or remain silent about violence against women, via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. The pledge can also be made at www.myoath.com.au. White Ribbon Chairman Andrew O’Keefe said he called on all men to swear [...]
Read more Tweets of QandA: June 13
June 14, 2011
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Welcome to the sixth installment of “Tweets of QandA” on Ausocial.com.au – a digest of the tweets from the previous evening’s QandA program on the ABC. Each week Ausocial.com.au compiles a selection of tweets designed to give a flavour of the social media debate that accompanied the episode. Ausocial.com.au attempts to include all points of view (the editor’s view [...]
Read more FOCUS: Why social media is everyone’s business
June 9, 2011
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There’s no argument that social media is becoming more and more engrained in our lives and culture. Now, a new research report released by the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association and Sensis has confirmed what we already know – Australians are hooked on social media. The AIMIA/Sensis report found that 62 per cent of Australian [...]
Read more Tweets of QandA: June 6
June 7, 2011
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Welcome to the fifth installment of “Tweets of QandA” on Ausocial.com.au – a digest of the tweets from the previous evening’s QandA program on the ABC. Each week Ausocial.com.au compiles a selection of tweets designed to give a flavour of the social media debate that accompanied the episode. Ausocial.com.au attempts to include all points of [...]
Read more Social media wrap-up: Aussies the biggest Facebook users, and more
June 5, 2011
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Here’s a brief wrap of what’s been happening in social media in Australia this week. Following the story on the ABC’s Four Corners last Monday about live cattle exports to Indonesia, Australians turned to Facebook to vent their disapproval. As of today Get Up’s “Ban live exports” site had been shared 32,150 times, whilst the [...]
Read more Social media wrap-up: Dannii Minogue’s love troubles aired over Twitter, and more
May 29, 2011
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Here’s a brief wrap of what’s been happening in social media in Australia this week. Advertising and digital agency George Patterson Y&R came under fire in the News Limited press for the online behaviour of staff members tasked with the Australian Defence Force’s social media review. “Senior staff at the advertising agency promote degrading images of women and [...]
Read more FOCUS: Social media – it’s a woman’s world
May 26, 2011
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The headlines these days seemed to be filled with celebrity tweets, sportspeople using social media to distribute naughty pictures, or regular people sharing self-portraits in quirky poses in unlikely places. But amidst the chaos there is one group of people that is quietly using social media to connect with like-minded souls for mutual benefit, better [...]
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