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G’day! Thanks for returning! 10 Cool Uses of Twitter | Geekpreneur Still think Twitter is for the birds? This collection of twitterific tools will help push you over the edge (or over the cliff). I am going to get an Adelaide traffic update going on twitter. More news soon (tags: twitter traffic adelaide adelaide_hills)

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Hashtags – hashtags I have been wondering how to track certain events — such as Adelaide traffic for speed cams or something. This may be the service… Not sure how it will work out, but there is definitely a service needed in Adelaide that bypasses the 8 radio stations we (tags: twitter speedcamera road traffic [...]

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Introduction to \”robots.txt\” If you ever wanted to make sure that only certain sections of your website could be ‘found’ by the search engines, or ensure that certain parts/pages weren’t found, here’s how (tags: google howto search tutorial useful web robots.txt)

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We’re all doomed! “Internet is addictive, addicts are mentally ill” proclaims psychiatrist Hat tip to Trevor Cook who spotted this over at news.com.au. I guess you could count me as one of the addicted; Mrs BetterComms would certainly support the claim (tags: addiction health internet psychiatry trevorcook mentalhealth) ALA TechSource | Planning a Virtual World [...]

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Ad:Tech – Brand marketers still looking for digital marketing solutions Jennie Beattie reflects on PR and the recent Ad:tech conference. The points she makes are very valid and will inspire a longer post from me shortly. Great post, Jen! (tags: digitalpr pr brand newmediajen adtech marketing socialmedia)

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Social Media- Talk is Cheap for Businesses | chrisbrogan.com Another in his excellent series of articles about Social Media and business. Thought provoking and definitely worth reading (tags: blogs business community presentation socialmedia tools) The science of religion | Where angels no longer fear to tread | Economist.com A huge study on religion and its [...]

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Young PR: does your social media effort equal spin or substance? Paull Young on why so many companies still get it so wrong. Social Media is NOT about ‘viral’ and ‘spin’ and ‘snaring new customers’. It IS about sharing and GIVING before receiving (tags: blog blogger Blogs journalism links marketing media pr social YoungPR PRBlogs) [...]

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TED | Talks | David Keith: A surprising idea for “solving” climate change (video) Blimey! You NEEEEED to watch this! Climate Change is solvable, is do-able right now. Winners, yes; losers, yes. Politically sensitive, yes. Mandatory watching, yes, yes, yes. (tags: environment TED science climatechange climate video research future government green ideas politics change) The [...]

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8 Groundswell Examples: News, Education, Religion, Cops, Restaurants, Music, Conferences, and Analysts Jeremiah Owyang on groundswells of public movements via social media. Fascinating! (tags: owyang web2.0 socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks) A Groundswell at SXSW: How The Audience Revolted and Asserted Control Jeremiah again on how twitter and other micro-blogging platforms can take over if the audience [...]

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