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No Facebook please…We’re in Financial Services…

If we take the concept of “elegant organisation” and apply what the ASX stats suggest (that is, more people look to the Internet and Friends/Family then Advisers) we can see how much of an impact that Social Media could have in this niche financial industry, the problem is what ASIC are reviewing does not consider the nature nor the dynamics of Peer-to-Peer networks.

Happy Australia Day to the Facebook nation!!!

I must say I was surprised when I found out who spent the greatest average time per user on such Social Networks as Twitter and Facebook. Australian’s consumed almost 7 hours per user, with the United States and the United Kingdom a close second and third. But if you are starting a social media venture you might want to launch in Brazil…

The ABC should not compete…

Both the ABC announcement of a new 24-hour news channel in direct competition with existing media outlets and the way they are conducting themselves demonstrates that the ABC has lost its way. What was an independent, non-competitive supplier of quality public services is now morphing in into a government funded News Corp or Fairfax.