List of Australia’s Top 50 Google+ Users

This data from SocialStatistics.com – a directory of Google+ users – represents a sample list of popular Australian Google Plus users and is not 100% accurate as SocialStatistics.com doesn’t pull in location data for all Google+ users in Australia, however I felt it was an interesting list with some great people to circle on Google+ so I thought it was worth publishing.

#1		Joel Falconer → Journalist	Gold Coast, Australia	2,364	2,795
#2		Chris Loft → Nice person / musician / producer / video maker / social networker / media student / father / dreamer / coffee grinder / poet / haikuist /	Adelaide, South Australia	4,872	5,877
#3		Gareth Hall → Student at Curtin	Perth, Australia	83	96
#4		Joeben Buena →	Melbourne, Australia	35	23
#5		Fred Wu → Web Developer	Melbourne, Australia	82	253
#6		George Zagas → Technical Project Manager	Quakers Hill, NSW, Australia	63	29
#7		Katie McLaughlin → Code Monkey	Sydney, Australia	43	58
#8		Mo Kargas → Web & Mobile Developer	Adelaide, Australia	289	985
#9		Farid Wardan → Web/Mobile Developer	Sydney, Australia	0	54
#10		Shuo Ran → Java Developer	Sydney, Australia	0	137
#11		Andrea B (cyberetto) → IT Manager	Sydney, Australia	146	263
#12		Long Zheng → Graphics designer	Melbourne, Australia	64	432
#13		Neville Ridley-Smith → Professional geek	Sydney, Australia	545	310
#14		Leigh Hanney → Online Marketing	Australia	96	92
#15		David Slattery → IT Architect	Berwick, Victoria, Australia	70	91
#16		Serdar Kiliç → Senior Developer	Sydney, Australia	80	79
#17		Erin Revell →	Brisbane, Australia	0	78
#18		Deepak Chawla → Brand identity designer	Melbourne, Australia	18	10
#19		Jessica Villeneuve → IT Business Analyst	Sydney, Australia	0	29
#20		Collis Ta’eed → Web Designer, Blogger, Entrepreneur	Australia	65	1,572
#21		Van Kham Tran → Research Student	Adelaide, Australia	159	255
#22		Jan Michael Alonzo → Geek.	Sydney Australia	605	198
#23		Jerry van Leeuwen → Software Development	Australia	18	0
#24		Ed Dale → Technology Fashionista, Noticer Of Stuff, Guitar Hack, Photographer	Moonee Ponds, Australia	173	1,324
#25		David Colahan →	Brisbane, Australia	0	32
#26		Craig Day → Software Engineer	Perth, Western Australia	0	0
#27		Robert Somerville → Consultant	Melbourne, Australia	97	368
#28		Jean-Jacques Halans → Web/Mobile Developer / Sometimes Photographer	Sydney, Australia	123	253
#29		Steve Coles →	Gold Coast Australia	69	41
#30		Narasimha Phanindra Vinti →	Melbourne,Australia	30	34
#31		Peta Hopkins → Project Manager	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia	78	98
#32		Rae Allen → Synergist and web developer	Brisbane. Australia	0	89
#33		Scott Bird → Editor	Sydney, Australia	196	119
#34		Dan Callaghan → Code monkey	Brisbane, Australia	0	0
#35		Maurice Kindermann → Web Designer & Developer	Brisbane, Australia	0	32
#36		George Paul → IT, Web/Graphics, Digital Film Making	Adelaide, Australia	45	47
#37		Thomas Woolford → Student	Adelaide, South Australia	34	38
#38		ManiacD Oz → Software Developer	Brisbane, Qld, Australia	206	197
#39		Lucio Ribeiro → Digital Officer	Australia	0	113
#40		Lyndon Sharp → Information Services Manager	Sydney, Australia	31	36
#41		Grant Osborne → Digital Strategist	Perth, WA, Australia	60	49
#42		David Whittle →	Australia	157	191
#43		Mohammadreza Kamyab → PhD Candidate, Petroleum Engineering	Perth, Western Australia	100	85
#44		Adam Dodson → Managing Director, Web Developer, Server Administrator, Digital Security Consultant, Privacy Preservation Professional, Tech Support Guru, Investigative Journalist, Awesome Father	Australia	90	72
#45		Scott Fowles → Conversion Analyst	Sydney, Australia	51	63
#46		Daryl Hunt → Workplace IT Trainer, Tech Support, Website Maintenance, Social Media Support	Mansfield Vic Australia	222	146
#47		Tim Hurley → CRM Manager	Perth Australia	36	16
#48		Hunter Murphy → Manager	Bunbury, Australia	573	554
#49		Melody Li → Students, Assistant	Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia	17	13
#50		Sam Lin → Student	Australia	18	18

Source: http://socialstatistics.com – this data isn’t entirely accurate, but I felt it was a good list nonetheless

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From Advertising Week 2009. Having trouble viewing? Try this link: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcpkr4nk_80xjc2vmzj

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Siteflex have successfully integrated the recently publicly released Google Analytics Data Export API into their web content management system, within 7 days of the Google announcement demonstrating further the benefits of SaaS & On Demand Applications.

Companies employing Mailflex now can examine, on a campaign by campaign basis:

• The relevant  top-level Analytics for the campaign created by Mailflex
• Granular Analytics – specific analyisis of all links & images that were clicked:
  • Total visits results from each click through to their relevant landing pages via the e-mail campaign
  • Total time on page for each landing page
  • Total page views for each landing page
• Correlate campaigns to Goal Conversions, such as E-Commerce Goals
• Find the most successful campaigns, ranking by page views, time on site and more

This is some pretty awesome integration from the Siteflex team – great to see Aussie developers at the forefront, demonstrating the coolness of the new Google Analytics Data Export API

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I thought it’d be interesting to plug twitter.com in to Quantcast and see what sort of results it brought up. They’re not running the Quantcast script on their site, the results still seem fairly in line with my thoughts on the Twitter user demographic.  Here’s some of the results my search brought up:

Note: These stats are just estimates, based on US data.

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So you’ve been hearing a lot about Twitter lately. News is hitting Twitter first, before traditional media outlets – the Mumbai attacks were being reported live on Twitter, and more recently the Hudson River plane crash. Twitter is growing fast – according to a recent blog post by Sandra Hanchard, Senior Analyst – Hitwise Asia-Pacific, Twitter’s year-on-year growth rate has increased by 517.9% (w/ending 10 January 2009 compared to the same week last year)

So, you’re convinced you need to be using Twitter – but how do you get started? This post aims to point out some not so obvious things about Twitter, that you just don’t get told.

What is Twitter?
The concept of Twitter is best explained by this great YouTube video – ‘Twitter in Plain English’

What is a ‘tweet’? What is a ‘retweet’?
A tweet is simply the name for the updates that you do on your twitter account. Any time you post a message, that is what is called a ‘tweet’.

A ‘retweet’ is a little different. Essentialy, a retweet is essentially taking someone elses message and then re-posting that message to your followers. By retweeting a message, you are giving credit to the original poster of that message.

To retweet someone elses post, there are 2 commons methods – each achieving the same outcome:

• Simply copy their message and place ‘RT’, ‘Retweet’ or ‘Retweeting’ at the front of the message you are reposting, including that users twitter id – eg: RT @jeremycabral Check out my post on ‘Getting Started with Twitter’
• The second method is to copy their message and place ‘(via @theirtwitterid)’, ‘at the end of their tweet – eg: Check out my post on ‘Getting Started with Twitter’(via @jeremycabral)When you post a retweet, the original poster is notified by receiving a reply message.Re-tweeting is a very powerful tool, and to completely understand how you can use it to improve your results using Twitter I recommend reading this post by @MohsinN .

When posting URL’s shorten them to save characters

When you post a tweet, it’s important to shorten your URL to give you more characters for your message. Past your URL in to a URL shortening service, and you will be given a much shorter URL to paste in to your message.

Here are two simple to use services that are quite popular amongst Twitter users:

• TinyURL
• Bit.ly – cleaner, simpler interface without any ads. You can also create your own account.

Setup a Twitter application for your desktop

I highly recommend setting up a desktop application to get full use of Twitter. They have much more features than just twitter.com. Here are two that I recommend you try:

• Twhirl (my current Twitter app)
• Tweetdeck

Get an iPhone and a Twitter application from the App Store.

Using Twitter on the go will keep you connected and allow you to tweet about something as soon as you think of it. On top of that, there are some great iPhone applications that allow you to upload a picture and even let your followers know your current location. Here are two that I recommend you try:

• Tweetie (my current Twitter app)
• Twitteriffic

Twitter Strategy

If you are using Twitter to gain more connections and create online profile, I highly recommend this Twitter PR Strategy (Thanks to @Problogger)

I hope this post will help to get you started on Twitter – stay tuned for more tips and strategies.

I’d love to hear your thoughts – is there anything I’ve missed? All comments appreciated!

P.S. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter!

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So I’ve made the big step in my personal career… I’ve decided to move on from the promotional products industry. What are promotional products? Promotional products are merchandise/gift items that can be branded with your company logo and given out to help in marketing your business. 

I worked in a role where I worked in every aspect of the business – sales, management, marketing, web development etc. and got to know the industry inside out. I still have a strong passion for promotional products but I want to explore the online web marketing realm and see what opportunities exist for me to further my skills and build on my hobbies and interests.

Entrepreneurism.net.au is my stomping ground; where my endless thoughts will hopefully find a home. Time permitting, I will be keeping this space up to date with the latest news and developments across a number of areas:

Business

I love challenges and the business world gives me an opportunity to push my abilities to their limits in developing solutions for clients. Expect to see the latest business news accompanied by some commentary and opinion that will hopefully make you stop and think.

Marketing

My marketing strategies are built on Return on Investment (ROI). I will be keeping grounded within the latest happenings and trends and providing some advice for businesses as to what’s hot and what’s not for marketing their business.

Online Marketing

I thoroughly enjoy Search Engine Marketing (SEM). My new job will give me the opportunity to take this hobby to the next level in being able to provide consultation to clients in this area – divising strategies for their Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns and Social Media online marketing campaigns. Expect to see some good tips and insight in to this field.

Productivity

I am a productivity junkie. Being time poor (aren’t we all?) I’m always looking for a way to do things smarter and more quickly. I will be sharing some reviews and tips on productivity tools that I use to make my day easier.

Technology

I love gadgets, gizmos and cool tech. I will cover off the latest desktop and mobile technology with product reviews and technology developments.

The above categories encompass the main reasons why I wanted to create this blog – but do expect the odd random funny or off-beat post here and then!

So there – my intro post finished.. Now to work on some content that is actually worth reading! haha..

I hope you enjoy what this blog has to offer

Cheers!

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