BuzzNumbers Blog, page 9
Posts from September 2008 to May 2009.
BuzzNumbers CEO Awarded Hot 30 under 30 Entrepreneurs (SmartCompany)
BuzzNumbers CEO Nick Holmes a Court has been awarded SmartCompany Hot 30 under 30 Australian Entrepreneurs. Congrats Nick!
Clare the Kings Cross Bogan generates more than $200K in equivalent advertising dollars in social media.
May 25th, 2009 (Sydney, Australia) – BuzzNumbers, Australia’s first social media intelligence service, has been tracking conversations about Clare Werberloff online and in social media since the video went viral on Monday last...
“It doesn’t hurt to ask” - Seth Godin
Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask right. If you run into Elton John at the diner and say, “Hey...
Gartner Reveals Five Business Intelligence Predictions for 2009 and Beyond
A 2009 Gartner Group paper predicted these developments in business intelligence market . Because of lack of information, processes, and tools, through 2012, more than 35 per cent of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly...
Coming to Cebit? Get Free CeBIT.AU entry with WebCiety & BuzzNumbers
BuzzNumbers is excited to announce that we’ve been selected to exhibit at CeBIT in the showcase Webciety pavillion. We’ll be joined in the Webciety area by other exciting Aussie web companies, such as HiiveSystems, SaaSu , Tjoos...
Coming to Cebit? Come down and see BuzzNumbers @ Webciety Cebit
If your coming to Cebit, be sure to come see BuzzNumbers at the Webciety at Cebit. “Webciety, a vibrant and informative multimedia display of the power and potential of the Internet for today’s working and social worlds, will...
BuzzNumbers makes Top 100 Aussie Startup Index (TechNation)
BuzzNumbers was this month nominated to the Australian Top 100 Startup Index. You can see the full list on TechNation.com.au
Australia's favourite brands hated on the web (news.com.au)
News.com.au just put out an article today on Brands being hated online (featuring comments from BuzzNumbers CEO). While this is really nothing new, hate sites have been around since the beginning of the internet, what is new is...
McDonalds: From YouTube Video to PR Crisis in less than 5 days...
This YouTube Video, showing a disgracefully littered McDonalds in Adelaide Australia, appeared on April 4th 2009 Within 7 days it was front page news McFilthy - You want Gastro with that? (Adelaide Now) The Story then also made...
Why Domino’s Pizza should be tracking YouTube Videos
Found this gem of user generated content today, was curious if domino’s monitors youtube and social media? If i was a pr/comms/hr/marketing manager at Domino’s, i would want to know about this kind of thing immediately as soon it...
More companies are understanding the importance of Twitter:
Companies like Starbucks, Whole Foods and Dell can see what their customers are thinking as they use a product, and the companies can adapt their marketing accordingly. Last week in Moldova, protesters used Twitter as a rallying...
Few CMOs Think They’re Effectively Tracking Social Media, Word-of-Mouth
Just stumbled across an interesting article on which is somewhat of a call to action for CMO’s and other Marketing Executives. BuzzNumbers directly addresses the questions raised by this article - and according to the CMO Council...
Study finds social media equally influential to conventional outlets
“Tech decision makers give user-generated sites equal importance to traditional media sources when considering tech purchases, according to a new study by Hill &; Knowlton. The “Tech Decision Maker” study found that decision...
BuzzNumbers opens Tokyo Office
We are excited to announce our expansion into Japan by opening a Tokyo Office! This is inline with our official release of our Asian Language version of BuzzNumbers. Japanese Online Media Monitoring at BuzzNumbers.JP Thanks for...
BuzzNumbers announces Australias first Social Media Intelligence platform
Today we have launched Australias first Social Media Intelligence platform. BuzzNumbers, Australia’s first social media intelligence company, launches into the global market offering innovative technology and services that enable...
Using social media for commercial gain
A great article from The Sydney Morning Herald today on the Business Benefits of Social Media. The challenge we see for corporates entering this space is taking an informed and insights driven approach to social media...
Australian Social Media Usage Statistics
We keep getting asked about just how many Australian’s use blogs, music, video, web2, and social sharing sites: Here is our research - In 2008: - 2.3M Australians have created a blog - 7.1M Australians read one or more blogs ...
How to choose a Social Media Agency
There has been much discussion within the fast growing social media engagement / online PR space about how to be effective and actually deliver great results. So we put together a hit list of selection criteria for engaging a...
Understanding the Transformative Impact of Crowdsouring
You may or may not be familiar with CrowdSourcing - but i just stumbled upon a video by Jeff Howe, who coined the term “Crowdsourcing” in a Wired magazine article in 2006. A great video to share with your collegues who may not be...
Social Media Monitoring FAQ
More and more companies are taking interest in the business opportunities that social media monitoring and social media analytics has to offer. As a leading vendor in the social media intelligence space we thought it would make...