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We all love lists and this week we were thrilled to find we made the Top 50 Australian Marketing Blogs.
The list has been put together by Julian Cole from Adspace Pioneers using collated data from the following rankings:

Google PageRank
Technorati Authority
Technorati Blog Reactions
Alexa Traffic Rank
Bloglines
Pioneers Score

Total

1
Banner Blog
6
6
8
6
8
9
43

2
Servant of Chaos
9
5
8
6
6
5
39

3
Duncans Tv Adland
6
5
7
6
8
5
37

4
Corporate Engagement
8
5
5
4
5
8
35

5
Better Communication Results
8
3
6
5
6
6
34

6
Young PR
7
5
6
5
5
6
34

7
Small Business […]

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This weekend, I’ll tune into bloggers and video from around the world in the global phenomena known as Pangea Day.
If you are interested in amazing stories that you would never see or hear otherwise it’s: http://www.pangeaday.org  What an exciting time we live in! 

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I do love using internet forums. The amount of things I have learned while browsing them is amazing, and at the same time, the amount of useless things I have learned is embarrassing - thankfully a recent post at a popular forum that I frequent filled me with glee. Cheers Futureshock!
Normally I wouldn’t use such […]

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The last Sunday in April marks Worldwide Pinhole Camera day… and I must say when the measure of your tech cred is by megapixels or mm to your lens, it strikes me as refreshing that there is a time to remember the sheer joy of photography as it was in a bygone age.
There are a […]

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Had to laugh today when reading the post here.
Marketing Profs discussed how this ‘authenticity’ marketing is getting out of hand. The post discusses what an ‘authentic’ day could look like:
“Downstairs, Brenda cooks up some scrambled Egg Beaters (”99% real egg whites”) while Eddie pours a bowl of Post Blueberry Morning cereal (”with Real, Wild Blueberries”). […]

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Keeping ourselves and our generation’s children safe online is one of the challenges for our era. Today is “Safer Internet Day”: an opportunity to highlight the various security and safety risks associated with the internet and how to deal with them.
Network PR acknowledges the importance of education in helping the new generation get the most […]

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On the weekend I was at a bbq in Erskineville talking to a musician that I had seen and loved in the 80’s. He still plays around town predominantly in Sydney to middle age (40s) audience.
I mentioned interest in the next time he was playing and he asked me for my email – his main […]

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I was reading a blog post by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research who raised the issue of how social media marketing will fare in the face of a recession.

The upshot was that it will continue to thrive because it is still one of the more effective and particularly cost-effective types of marketing.

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A recent study by the Australian Centre for Public Communication of the University of Technology Sydney titled E-Electioneering: Use of New Media in the 2007 Australian Federal Election found that, while 137 of Australia’s 226 Members of the House of Representatives and Senators (61 per cent) had a personal Web site, only 26 (11.5 per […]

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The other day I was at the park when I noticed a van pull up with a logo www.scooteria.com.au with some great graphics of Italian Vespas.

That night my first instinct was to plug the web address in and see what sort of online profile they had – after all the scooter community is a particularly […]

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