Posts tagged with Social Media

The Rise of the 24/7 Marketing Manager

The Rise of the 24/7 Marketing Manager

By Nathan Bush on 29 Apr 2010

When I was growing up a good family friend of ours owned a car yard. I can recall times where he had to leave BBQ’s on a Sunday afternoon to shelter vehicles from an oncoming hail storm, he stayed back at night to allow people to test drive cars after hours and went [...]

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Facebook flooded with news

Facebook flooded with news

By Nathan Bush on 18 Feb 2010

At lunchtime on Tuesday, Brisbane went from a sunny 29°C day to a stormy, flash flooding mess. It was some crazy weather which caused some major disruption throughout the city. So, how did you find out about the damage caused by this little storm? Was it through a mainstream news outlet? Or was it through a social [...]

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Haiti relief – the digital impact and telcos acting as banks

Haiti relief – the digital impact and telcos acting as banks

By Tracy Straughan on 09 Feb 2010

As each natural disaster happens in the world I watch with interest the ever increasing role that digital and mobile technologies play in driving disaster relief efforts. Take the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January. The response for aid was astounding and more rapid than other recent natural disasters. Social networking certainly played a key [...]

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Insert ‘Tweadline’ here

Insert ‘Tweadline’ here

By Scott Esdaile on 04 Feb 2010

Twhat up tweeps? Are you sick of those hipster twicksters making up their own twords whenever they reference anything to do with Twitter? Twexting. Tweeting up. Tweethearts. Twoublemakers. Twublicity… the “tw” craze took the online jargon world by storm in 2009 and like a rollicking mexican wave rolling around the Gabba cricket ground at a 20-20, [...]

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A new era in job and candidate searches

A new era in job and candidate searches

By Steve Jennings on 10 Jan 2010

2009 was a tough year on the career front for many Australians. Redundancies were widespread as companies endeavoured to cope with an uncertain economic climate. The employer marketing and recruitment advertising sectors were highly sensitive to the economic slowdown, with reduced marketing budgets calling for smarter thinking, greater ROI and diversification across the board. The job market [...]

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GREEN! PURPLE! RED! WHITE! ……NUDE?

GREEN! PURPLE! RED! WHITE! ……NUDE?

By Sarah Ferguson on 08 Jan 2010

If you are a regular Facebook user you may be wondering what is going on with all your gal friends. Status updates stating a particular colour are currently the rage but if you are part of that 50% of the population that have the Y chromosome, you are probably clueless as to what is going on. Here [...]

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Stop creating ads. Start creating value

Stop creating ads. Start creating value

By Kevin Moreland on 26 Oct 2009

News flash people – consumers aren’t waiting with bated breath for our next campaign. They’re far too busy, cynical and jaded to care. But they will give us the time of day if we create something of value. Let me give you an example. QUT, which operates in the higher education category, recently wanted to promote its [...]

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Happy Birthday to Us

Happy Birthday to Us

By Kevin Moreland on 16 Oct 2009

It’s been around 12 months since we launched this blog. In that time we’ve explored a whole bunch of stuff. We’ve talked about marketing brilliance and blunders. We’ve showcased our work. We’ve offered friends of BCM a chance to debate and comment on everything from whether Aussies will embrace Twitter, through to the lament of New-South-Welshmen losing State [...]

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Don’t suck … blow

Don’t suck … blow

By Bill Bristow on 30 Sep 2009

In the good old days when TV spots were cheap and Colgate-Palmolive seemed to have unlimited budget, a style of advertising emerged under the banner of, “It’s so bad it’s good”. Mrs Marsh broke the piece of chalk 20 times a night for a year and the campaign worked. Do we have a new version of the [...]

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There’s a lot of dust about on Twitter

There’s a lot of dust about on Twitter

By Sarah Ferguson on 23 Sep 2009

For those of you in Brisbane or Sydney, you may have thought you lived on Mars today with the eerie clouds of red dust over our skies – in fact both “Dune” and “Total Recall” have been referenced several times. While we are all now pretty convinced of the marketing capabilities of Twitter, it is interesting [...]

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