“Our children now love luxuries. They have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for elders and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannise their teachers.”Socrates, 425BC
Not only do I use it as a predominant tool for researching assignments (take that University lecturers) but I spend hours upon hours every week reading pages for my own amusement and education. In fact, it’s not uncommon for me to have ten different Wikipedia pages open at once. This week alone I’ve read about a conspiracy theory, a science phenomenon, US Presidential impeachments, a box office flop and my favourite sitcom.
An incredible example demonstrating the power of community, collaboration, and connectivity. Today it is the eighth most popular website on the Internet.
Even more remarkably, Wikipedia has run for eight years with only 23 paid employees and is completely funded through donations.
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, has recently released an appeal for donations.
So. For every blog post from now until the end of January that mentions Wikipedia is in need of donations and links back to this post, I will donate $10. I know that’s possibly some form of unethical link baiting, but I figure I will probably make a greater impact using your blog instead of mine.
It’s not going to cure cancer, but I believe it is still a worthy cause.
Perhaps you won’t notice the change but I will. A slight diversion in what I limit myself to posting with perhaps a slight less focus on social media. While this will still remain dear to this blog and this blogger’s heart, new media, Gen Y, technology, blogging and anything else that tickles my fancy will surely be covered.
Also different is a new design and a change in tone to perhaps some more fun and creative posts where I can. I’ve been inspired lately by the readings of many random non marketing blogs. That, along with the fact most people who know me would suggest I rarely take anything seriously, will together form perhaps a more casual approach to my blogging.
Should be a good year.
I feel like 2008 was a good year for the Australian Marketing Blogging scene. Perhaps because I found my place in it, or just simply it had incredible growth, content and new arrivals. 2008 saw saw a fantastic community develop and some remarkable conversations heard.
Why does Twitter have such an elite feel to it? And further, why do people have a need to be ranked and judged on their social media platform depth and performance?
Yes Twitter full of innovators and early adopters but it very much seems an exclusive group. People talk as though being on Twitter makes them more social media friendly than those who aren’t.
Would it even be necessary for a social media consultant to be on Twitter? Would you trust someone giving advice if they didn’t blog? This blogger wouldn’t.
Surely you don’t need to be on Twitter? Same with Facebook. In fact, one of my favourite bloggers doesn’t even have a blog yet. It could help, but certainly not a necessity. Just like not every brand needs a social media presence, do they?
Gotta love those posts with more question marks than full stops.
1. URLs end in .com.au not .com/au.
2. A fake warning message… people are still falling for this? What do you mean I’m your 1,000,000th customer!?
3. You spelt you’re incorrectly.
4. Clicking on the ad didn’t even take me to the address shown.
5. And Internet Explorer? C’mon, if you’re not using Firefox or Chrome your not cool in my book.
I wonder if media buyers realise that when they buy space for banner ads, they appear next to “advertising” like this.
Pigs Don’t Fly comes in at a neat US$21,452.52. Not bad for a year and a half’s investment. Any bidders?
Obviously it’s just a fun internet tool and to be taken with a hint of jest, but what’s your blog worth?
For the females I had to buy for, I simply told the kind girl behind the counter how old they were, what they did and what my budget was for each of them. Ten minutes later I left with suitable presents, price tags removed and everything wrapped.
I wonder if there’s a market for something similar but with guys?
One negative. I’m not sure if others feel this way but the best part of purchasing a new gadget, especially an Apple product, is unwrapping it and taking it out of the box. Unfortunately the Optus girl cut the plastic, opened the box, got her dirty fingerprints on it and inserted the SIM card right in front of me. Damn.
Apple don’t only have incredible product design, but packaging design too. So much so, that it almost becomes part of the story of your purchase.
Anyway, what applications can you recommend?
