Dubbed “Facebook with training wheels,” emerging website Togetherville, targeted at children, is quickly developing a presence online. But should parents really be encouraging their kids to jump on the social networking bandwagon?
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How to pause bad web publicity
Something stupid happens at work and suddenly customers are tweeting and making YouTube videos about how awful your company is. How can you fight back when you’re trashed on the web?
OMG we’re totes not tweeting our literacy away
Rather than Twitter and text speak destroying our rich language, are we creating a literary revolution not seen since Ancient Greece? Jessica Au explores the different schools of thought.
No comment for NSW Liberal twits
Want to tweet your office politics? Then don’t join the NSW Liberals, who’ve just passed new policy banning members from using blogs or social networking sites to make public statements about the party.
Tweet tweet: Facebook status search enabled
In the battle for social networking supremacy, Facebook has introduced a function to search status updates of both your ‘friends’ and the public. So, yes, it will be just like Twitter.
Does Twitter have a future?
How can Twitter use be retained long enough to generate cash?
2 cents’ worth: ABC paves the way for reader-generated content
The ABC has issued an editorial policy on User Generated Content that anticipates a partial ceding of control to the audience, writes Margaret Simons.
How Australian business can start catching up with the online world
Everyone knows the interactive web is changing the way we gain information on products, services and subjects we like. However, Australian business is getting left behind in this evolving interactive online world as consumers forge their own paths, writes Con Frantzeskos.
Are Liberal Facebook ads in breach of the Electoral Act?
The Liberal Party has been caught out apparently breaching Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) rules on political advertising, writes Julie Posetti.
Facebook: advertisers’ dream becomes a reality
Once upon a time when people came together it was likely to be in a civic space – a common, park or town hall. Then came the shopping malls, which provided air conditioned meeting places, so long as you didn’t mind being bombarded with commercial messages. Now we have social networking online.
