Tag Archives: Facebook

Hidden Melbourne – Our *new Social Media Platforms

Because we were not able to get in touch our social media admin, Vanessa, we Jesse, Sara and I) decided to create new social media platforms to work with to get our project up and running. Due to our concept change (you can read it in this blog post), we will only be using Twitter, Facebook Page, Google Maps, ABC Pool and HTML Webpage. I have added in the links to our sites below: Hidden Melbourne: Twitter Hidden Melbourne: Facebook Page Hidden Melbourne: Google Maps [...]

‘Friendly’ Online Engagement?

Did you know social media is now a powerful weapon for businesses? Following up from the reading we did in week 3 on collaboration. I wanted to dive deeper into the topic to learn more about how social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are so widely used by governments, businesses and entrepreneurs and why. So here is what I found. These days, you can find a large variety of companies and organisations on sites like: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Reddit, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Ning, [...]

Week 5 – Kicking it off with a Skype Lecture with Jonathan Hutchinson!

This week’s lecture was pretty interesting. It was the first time we actually had a Skype lecture! Our guest speaker for today was Jonathan Hutchinson. As his blog’s ‘about page’ states, Jonathon Hutchinson is a community manager for ABC Pool, the user-generated content site for the ABC. This position forms a component of his PhD research investigating the challenges and opportunities by incorporating UGC and its communities into the publishing practices of the ABC. There’s more about him on his [...]

Fashion dos and fashion don’ts

(Untitled, by linh.ngah) How do you find the latest fashion trends? When was the last time you bought a fashion magazine to find out what was the in look? I had the chance of speaking to a fashion designer, Chitra Mangma, in the past week. She told me you have got to follow tons of trend setters to find out the season’s latest trend. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pin-interest. These channels are her fashion bible. Without them, she will have no clue of what the latest [...]

What is Collaboration anyway?

So what is collaboration in terms of the internet world today? I did a short and opinionated summary of what I got out of the reading from this week. It was a really interesting perspective as I have always thought everything online was collaborative. Instead of it naturally becoming collaborative, you have to make it collaborative. So… “Sharing is the first step” This week’s reading analyze the term ‘collaboration’ used amongst a large variety of social media platforms today. It [...]

Who’s on Google?

Today, while I was Facebook-ing (as usual), I realised that through Facebook, people are able to find you online. I know what you might be thinking, “Oh, my gawd. Is she for real?” Well, hear me out. I realised Facebook and all other social websites are linked up in Google. If you try Google-ing yourself in Google image, you might be able to find images of yourself in there. The more images or information or friends you have, the more [...]

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