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A new era in job and candidate searches
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?
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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There’s a lot of dust about on Twitter
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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LinkedIn Fizzes while the Global Economy Fizzles
The social networking buzz continues with stories and predictions about MySpace, Facebook and more recently Twitter. But the ‘quiet achiever’ of the social networking world is LinkedIn. LinkedIn was only launched in 2003 with $25m in venture capital. In its first year it only drew a few hundred thousand users but by 2005 nearly 5 million people [...]
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Twitter security concerns – not just the password kind!
There’s no doubt that the rise of social networking and all of the great things it brings has changed the way we perceive security and personal safety. When I was a kid if we were going away for the weekend mum would always leave a couple of lights on, burning away day and night to fool [...]
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What Next: 13 March 2009
Do you subscribe to What Next? What Next is BCM’s weekly review of what’s happening in the world of media, entertainment, new products etc. If it’s new, you’ll hear about it here! This week: The rise and rise of the smart phone Google set to dominate smart phone search A newspaper becomes a platform For sale – by SMS Social networking passes [...]
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Twitter vs Facebook (aka David vs Goliath)
Journos love a good story about the latest social networking craze. News outlets have been full of stories about Facebook and Myspace for years. But now, it seems, there’s a new kids on the block. Twitter. The runt of the social media pack has finally gone mainstream, leaving nobody in any doubt that the micro-blogging [...]
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Christmas: Goodwill, gifts, plum pudding and… Facebook?
Put your hand up if you spent your entire Christmas day away from a PC. I see. Not many of you. Put your hand up if you went on Facebook. Right. More than I thought. Don’t worry, if you had a cheeky look at Facebook on Christmas Day, you weren’t alone. In fact, as the above chart shows, Christmas [...]
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‘Fragmentation’ – Threat or Opportunity?
As consumers’ media choices multiply and fragment, many in our industry fear an increasingly complex media landscape, a higher degree of difficulty in reaching prospects, and a big challenge in capturing attention. And they’d be dead right in identifying these issues and being concerned about dealing with them. As consumers’ attention increasingly skips across media channels [...]
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My, how things have changed
Ah, the heady days of 1998, just a decade ago. The year Australia held a Constitutional Convention, John Howard was re-elected for the first time, and Bill Clinton faced the music over his dalliances. Doesn’t seem that long ago, does it? In 1998, there was no such thing as Napster, and the music industry was happily [...]
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Goo-goo-ga-ga-GUI-GUI
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Don’t get all emotional on me…
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BCM makes a splurge for Wotif.com
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The Androids are coming!!
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Are you a Scrum-er, a Queue-er or a Pay to Jump-er?
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The battle that never happened
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Happiness is…
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He’s getting his colour back – quick, call a Wireframbulance!
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View from 45th & Madison – via Warner St
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Cognitive space to rent
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