Did you know that there were rules on how you could promote your Facebook page outside of Facebook? There’s a page dictating the rules of how you may do it from Facebook here. In summary…

Surely with the technology and platforms available now, there are direct, accurate and immediate ways we can gauge public opinion. Not just on daylight saving but any topic – the emissions trading scheme, internet filtering, the name of a new Vegemite or which fans want Barry Hall at their club. If I was in charge of making these decisions, I’d be taking advantage of as many tools which measure public sentiment as I can in order to cover my ass and make an informed decision.

If your name is approximately 18 characters long, it cannot be removed from ‘Suggestions’ page as the name covers the remove button

Those tweeting #heyhey during the telecast had, on average, 100 less followers than the average active Twitter user. Twitter users tweeting about Hey Hey It’s Saturday had anaverage of 154 followers. In comparison, the average active Twitter user has 255 followers.

Sam constantly adjust my perspective and inspires me to look beyond the day to day. While I don’t have the free spirit he does, he shows me how much there is to do and to explore out there. Check out his blog to read about his experiences (clubbing in Kenya, surfing in California, elephant orphanages in Sri Lanka) and view his amazing photos. Truly inspiring!

The following are my notes from last week’s Marketing Now conference in Melbourne. In no way is it a comprehensive overview of the event or the content but the tidbits that I managed to write down, email myself or tweet.The amount of info for each speaker does not reflect how much I got out of their talk. It is purely what I wrote down at the time. Hopefully there’s one or two pieces of gold you can take out of it…