Who are Australia’s top marketing and media bloggers ? My original blog post, exactly six months ago . For Lee Hopkins , who asked today on Twitter about getting access to an updated Top Marketing and Media bloggers list for Australia. As you can see, their ranking in Australia is left column, then the blog name, their ranking in August last year, their ranking today, and for fun, their Not decided by the local BlogMafia -heh - but internationally recognised and independently evaluated? This is the list.

If you hunt through this blog, you’ll notice that I’ve been tracking Facebook users in Australia since May 2007 (around 200,000 members I think) to today and 1/3 of Australian population. Australia: Number of Australians on Facebook 2010 is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy Technorati Tags: Australia , Australians Well, the number of Australians on Facebook has shot through the roof. After sitting on 6 million for a while, we have 7,900,000 monthly active users, 6,900,000 over 18 years old.

Not blogs - they must have community features of many-to-many discussions, leaders, UGC etc.  Australia’s community for solo & micro business OzSmallBiz.net - by Stephen Spry Small Business Support Network (perhaps more of a blog than an online community?) The Ruby Connection (Westpac) - Australian Business A “top list” of social networks and online communities for business and corporate. Here’s my Australian list:

in the room - and 4 blogged. 12 had started a blog and dropped it. They didn’t blog, Facebook or Twitter even email much … aaaanyway: Tags: Australia Enterprise 2.0 Was on a panel today, at Cebit 2009 at Darling Harbor, Sydney.  You You might like part two where I showed a list of Enterprise 2.0

The research has revealed that almost a third of people think interactive web tools such as blogs, reviews and star ratings are ‘very influential’ in their holiday planning, with a further 50% saying these tools have ‘certain influence’ on their travel decisions. Technorati Tags: Australia , statistics , tourism , Travel ...Tags: From time to time I run workshops, strategy sessions and give keynotes at Travel and Tourism conferences on the role of social networks, user generated content and peer reviews in that industry A new industry booklet from Sustainable

Most importantly it reminded me of what was happening in the software world and I was chuffed to see that ideas that I blogged about years ago are being incorporated into mainstream products such as social ranking of search , idea crowdsourcing (but I didn't call it that) and easily incorporating video. You can imagine my surprise when on day 1 of the conference I found myself sitting at the same table as Dan Kirsch . I've never met Dan.

Technorati Tags: Augmented Reality , Australia , business , Gary Hayes , models , monetizing ...Tags: Tags: Augmented Reality Australia Monetization Money Online Communities blogs social media social networks business Gary Hayes models monetizin Gary Hayes has done an awesome job of putting the Business into social Augmented Reality. Augmented reality is where a device puts an overlay over the real world.

I’ve blogged on peer to peer banks since 2006 or so, but here’s the latest list I have: iGrin - Australia ’s p2p loans - doesn’t look very social but it is still social finance Kiss me Virgin! Peermint launching in Australia After the radio interview with Tony Delroy a few days ago, I’ve had an inordinate number of requests for information on social lending and microfinancing sites. Particularly Australian p2p banks.

Marketing Magazine name Industry Head of Social Media for Australia. hunkered down and tried to figure out what I’ve seen change since returning to Australia in 2005 and it’s now been published in the 2010 Media Survival Guide. Paul Borrud, regional VP of sales for Facebook, Australia What is an Industry? What is an Influencer?

Myspace Music Australia has launched. Well, that quote wasn’t too bad but going on about Lily Allen doing a great job on her MySpace blog and speaking up about piracy, when she’s just been caned online for pirating content from TechDirt with no attribution was a bit much. After the British Government’s plans to implement a three strikes policy for file sharing copyright infringement, Lily Allen came out in strong support for disconnecting offenders. [ 175 ] [ 176 ] Creating a blog entitled “It’s It socializes the find-filter-forward mechanism a lot better, apparently.