My mum has Facebook!

However, a few weeks ago she asked me an inevitable question in this day and age, one I never thought I’d hear from my mum, “Can you help me make a Facebook”. Having only recently left my teens behind my reaction was less than mature. I instantly thought of my mum...

The Farmville Experiment

Farmville is an online game produced by Zynga that has seen huge success due to the free and social nature of their games including Marfia Wars, Cafe World and Fishville. However it can be argued that their overall winning tactic has been the link to social media,...

Bloggers are the new rock stars

I read a statistic last week that said two thirds of professionals read at least one blog a day. I know there are some people in my office who could read at least half a dozen a day. As a PR agency we now don’t just target traditional media and online news forums, but...

Jetstar flies the flag for Social Media

You can read more about it here (http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/social-media-40-of-jetstar-s-marketing-budget-2020) but to summarise, Jetstar’s bold decision to throw almost half of its budget behind social media was made after its recent forays into new...

Beauty brands embrace social media

Ladies loved the personalised experience of getting their “colours done” by a friendly expert – a notion that quickly became a phenomenon.  More than ever before, people were developing strong and enduring relationships with their beauty brands, and boy did it mean...

Social media for good

On Tuesday 12 January, a 7 magnitude earthquake struck the island nation and caused widespread devastation, killing an estimated 100,000 people and displacing significantly more. Within minutes, news of the quake spread on Twitter and millions of people mobilised –...
15 Years of Fame