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The popular social media network, LinkedIn has surpassed four million members in Australia, representing an increase of 300% since 2010, and expanding its presence to three offices and 100 staff. 80% of Australia’s five million professionals are members of the social media site, and it is still experiencing big demand and response for its suite of …

If you use Twitter you will be very acquainted with the “#”, now more popularly known as the final character of a hashtag. The social media giant Facebook is about to go head-to-head with Twitter by adding hashtags. Facebook is said to be working on incorporating the hashtag by using the symbol as a way …

The social media giant Facebook is the site of the engagement. Data released by the social media site’s marketing page revealed, not surprisingly,  just how addicted people are to the site. The  page released an infographic in order to show advertisers how they have got a captive audience on the social media site, illustrating Facebook’s high level …

A good mobile marketing strategy has never been more important, considering new findings. One in five college students in the U.S. are said to be addicted to mobile deals, according to new research carried out. Overall, the majority of students use their mobile devices to look for deals and coupons. Students rely heavily on their …

A group board on the social media site Pinterest, works in a similar way to a regular Pinterest board. The only difference is that along with the board creator, other people are also allowed to pin. Group boards go under several different names – shared boards, contributor boards, community boards and collaborative boards, but regardless …

Facebook recently launched a massive overhaul of its ‘Newsfeed’ feature. The social media giant has made changes that bring focus to visual content and content filtering, while at the same time offering more space to advertisers. With the newsfeed update, the company has standardised the interface, so Facebook will now appear the same whether accessed …

Many marketers still think of mobile marketing as something they can afford to think about at a later date. This could not be more wrong. The Internet landscape has changed drastically. The PC is now just one of several pieces of hardware that people use to access the Internet. Consumer PC sales are slowing down …

A report recently carried out on mobile user behaviour in 170 categories and for 4 million mobile sites on a global basis, found the following: For the week ending February 23rd, Google had the top mobile site overall in the US, representing a market share visit of 17.27%. In addition it had four more in the …

If you are not already following a company on the massive social media site, LinkedIn, what are you waiting for? You can follow up to 2.8 million companies on LinkedIn, so why limit yourself to just a couple? Follow companies that spread across more than 140 industries. Simply go to the search box at the …

Within the last few days Google announced several changes to the user profiles and brand pages of the social media platform, Google+, most of which are purely aesthetic. The changes include: 1. Larger Cover Photos New cover photos will display at a maxium of 2120×1192 pixels and a 16:9 ratio when fully expanded. This new …