9/10 people make purchases based on a reccomendations, so its no surprise newcomer “Our Deal” has launched its new Social Shopping to australian customers.

How it works…

A new deal is featured on the Our Deal homepage each week day morning. The deal is available for 24 hours and must attract a minimum number of customers in order to become active. Once the minimum number of customers has been reached- the deal is on!

Follow Our Deal on twiter and of course on facebook

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Venezuelan PM and twitter newbie Hugo Chavez is taking his social media efforts to the max! Chavez has allegedly hired an army of people to manage his twitter profile. Chavez is Venezuela’s number one twitter holder and as a result has an army of 200 people managing his profile which attracts over 50,000 mentions a day. It raises the question again, who’s managing your social Media profiles within your business????

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Apple have finally announced details of its highly anticipated Ipad launch including details of pricing and “apps” available to purchase through its ibookstore. The announcement made slightly earlier than anticipated includes all six models. Pricing details as follows:

Wi-Fi models:

16GB: $629

32GB: $759

64GB: $879

Wi-Fi + 3G models

16GB: $799

32GB: $928

64GB: $1049

In the US, Apple has sold a million ipads in 28 days, outselling the iphone launch in which they sold a million iphones in just over 7 weeks. The device will also go on sale in eight other countries from May 28: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

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Erick Qualman has updated his rather popular Socialnomics video. Check it out.

We have all heard the stories about job candidates being rejected for because a prospective employer Googled them and found inappropriate blog posts or photos of juvenile misbehavior on their Facebook page, so it astounds us why over 5000 Victorians would join this group. Dear small minded individuals who create and join groups such as ” Have you been to Asia? Nah, but I’ve been to Footscray” private lives are no longer private, consider this your last warning.

Tania & Anth (groups creators) are boasting the success of their page… it raises the question when do they find the time to manage this success story? At work? I bet their employers would love that!

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Listen up professionals… here is a very real and high profile example of personal reputation management.

Controversial “comedian” and journalist for Melbourne broadsheet The Age has shown us all how very important it is to remember that published comments directly impact your personal brand.

Deveny posted comments using social media platform twitter during Sundays Logies ceremony (for non Australian readers, the Logies are television awards) The majority of comments are too distasteful to be repeated on our blog, however Deveny made personal attacks (which she has now claimed were taken out of context) on celebrities attending the event.

Deveny has since come under fire and in a surprising move by Fairfax media has been sacked as an in-house writer for The Age, with Editor-In-Chief, Paul Ramadge citing he views she has expressed recently on Twitter are not in keeping with the standards we set at The Age,”

To us its painfully obvious, don’t say anything you may regret. Opinions are one thing, however vicious, spiteful and disrespect is another.

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ShopFans is an e-commerce application on Facebook that allows retailers to set up a storefront on the social network.
Shop fans allows consumers to purchase goods and make secure purchase transactions directly and for consumers to post news stories such as
“Wish lists”, “I want this!”, “Likes”, “Shout outs”, gift registries, private and exclusive sales, and more. In a previous blog post data suggests that 9/10 people are influenced by social word of mouth.

Image ShopFans Via TechCrunch

Prankster and Funnyman Dave Thorne has managed to demonstrate once again how powerful the viral/social media mix can be. Upon receiving an invitation to a friends party Throne had noticed that the privacy settings we left as open to the public. Thorne, proceeded to inform all of his twitter followers attracting over 60,0000 “attendees” to the event, demonstrating 1. the power of social media 2. The importance of ensuing privacy is protected. Thorne was quoted as saying: “It’s important, regardless of individual privacy settings, to treat all information that you include on these social networking sites as completely public and include personal information appropriately,” he said. The party was eventually cancelled and the page removed however the addition of facebook fan pages such as “We met at Kate’s Party”, “Kate’s party would have gone off” have surfaced. Dave Thorne is a blogger and is responsible for the “Its like twitter but we charge for it” email Image: Facebook Kate’s Birthday Party

Here are a few things you may like to know about YouTube:

• There are only two bigger websites in the world. Google and Facebook.
• YouTube was purchased by Google in 2006 for US$1.65 billion
• A year after launching YouTube, founders Hurley, Chen and Karim set up camp in a office above a pizzeria in San Mateo
• On average, people watch YouTube for between 10 and 15 minutes a day
• On April 23 2005, the first- ever video uploaded was by founder Karim who had filmed elephants at the San Diego Zoo
• There are more than a billion views a day on YouTube and every minute 24 hours of new content is uploaded onto the site.

Reality Television star Kim Kardashian has been chosen by Optus as their latest ambassador to promote the newly launched “MotoBlur” which has a heavy emphasis on mobile social networking platforms in particular Twitter. Kardashian has been chosen as the new mobile phone ambassador because of her continuous online posts and over 3 million followers on twitter.

Optus has leveraged its facebook page to promote the tour and engage users by offering them the chance to meet the reality star in store in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

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