Social & Digital

The announcement of a number of new tools and apps for Twitter has come following a Pew Internet report indicating that the micro-blogging site has a growing body of younger fans flocking to it. The ...

A new study of social email practices by Silverpop has found that ‘social sharing’ (in which recipients share noteworthy emails with their friends on social networks) already outperforms ‘forward-to-a-friend’ linking. Even though the rate of ...

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has launched a real-time Twitter aggregator of Australia’s Top 100 most followed PR professionals. The aggregator was built and designed by BCM for QUT to promote their Masters of Business ...

A survey conducted by Open Text has found almost one third of Australian organisations have an enterprise web 2.0 or departmental web 2.0 deployment. A further 9% were in the process of deploying, while 13% ...

uSocial.net has offered Twitter $500,000 to place a banner ad for 24 hours. While the sum may seem excessive, Twitter does not currently offer advertising. There is some speculation as to the authenticity of the ...

Hollywood execs are moving in on celebrities, imposing restrictions designed to prevent news from leaking out of celebrity Twitter and Facebook accounts. Studios like Disney and DreamWorks are adding clauses to contracts that prevent talent ...

OpSec Security Inc., a company that focuses on anti-counterfeiting and brand protection, has released a study that identifies the impact of internet trading platforms and social media web forums on the market launch and distribution ...