We as humans are wired in such a way that we consume visual content faster and easier than with words. The main types of visual content include video, screenshots, infographics, charts and graphs, comic strips, memes and the most basic of the all, a photo. Given that we are visual beings, it makes it no […]
Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a little project with a friend of mine. Without getting into too much detail, it will require the importation of a food item to get things up and running. With New Zealand being the country that it is with its strict biosecurity laws, you can’t […]
Just over half a year ago, I published statistics on the number of Kiwi’s signed up to the various social networks > New Zealand Social Media Statistics, March 2013. Given the amount of time that has gone by since then, it felt appropriate to revisit the numbers to see where things sit to date. The […]
We live in a day in age where information is literally at our fingertips! If i’m sitting at home and need to find out about something, all I need to do is pull out a laptop or tablet and search for ‘that’ information. If i’m out and about, that search is done on my phone. […]
HootSuite is my tool of choice for manage my social media properties. I recently took on a challenge to help a small non-profit with their social media presence. One of the tools that I recommended they use was HootSuite because of the various functionalities that it provides. One the things that this non-profit has is […]
Early this morning, my sites were down and after a bit wondering as to what could be going on, I put it down to a hosting issue. I took to Twitter to investigate and lo and behold, not only HostGator (Ninetynine Ways’ hosting provider) but Bluehost and HostMonster were experiencing outage issues. The issues were […]
I’m a person who believes that we learn something new every day. A little while ago, my lesson for the day was learning a new word; In a nutshell, meformation can be defined as “me” content, where almost all the content you share across your social networks is about you. I’ve been thinking about that […]
About 3 weeks ago, the following question was posed by a New Zealand based Twitter user: Does anyone know where we can find NZ demographic stats on twitter users?? There must be somewhere?? #curious — Dickson Lawrence Ng (@ng_dickson) March 15, 2013 I too became a bit curious and tried to hunt around for the […]
Everyday, people and companies dive into the world of social media be it for brand awareness, generating leads, engaging with people, spying on competitors and the list goes on. Some people (more so businesses) sign up to various platforms without any sort of plan or thought about what they want to achieve and how they […]
