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- December 24th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
So this IS Christmas…
Listening to my favorite Christmas song this morning prompted me to write this Blog. The John Lennon Classic – So This Is Christmas calls for Christmas to make the world a better place. Well y…
- December 18th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Congrats to Scotty Hall, the winner of the HOPS NBL Round 12 POTW Competition!
And here is the winning submission…. “How can you not be rhetorical when handing out this weeks award? Is there anyone else as worthy as Wollongong’s whipper snipper Tywain McKee?Â…
- December 16th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Seek ….. and You will be Found
With everyone I speak to now wanting to know how to generate business using Social media I have finally realised the Internet is one big search engine. Whether it’s what you put into your Linked…
- December 14th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Hops Sportswear Player of the Week Competition: Round 12
Yo ballers, what up? Let us know who your pick is for the Hops Sportswear Round 12 Player of the Week and you could win a FREE pair of Hops Basketball or Streetwear shoes. All you need to do is a  
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Support your bloody team, Adelaide….or hand in your tickets and move to Sydney!!!
I realize that this may be difficult to do….especially after Bodacious Boti’s blistering article today, but may I quote a prominent figure in the African-American community; “Keep H…
- December 13th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
‘Inside The Game’ Recap / Episode 21
Yo, what up ballers? If you didn’t see Friday’s episode of Inside the Game, damn you missed a good one! Our show opener, for starters, was quite unique……..than again, most of…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Its beginning to look a lot like … a Social Media Christmas
In some very recent research, in the first week of December, 28 per cent of US consumers claim social media has had a significant influence on their Christmas shopping plans this year..The research by…
- December 11th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Congrats to Daniel Eade, Inside the Game’s 1st Hops Sportswear POTW competition winner!
And here is Daniel’s winning thesis on why Tywain McKee should be the ‘Hops Sportswear Player of the Week: “I hear all these accolades coming in for Big Red Schenscher, as the giantÂ…
- December 10th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Hops Sportswear Player of the Week competition: Round 11
National Basketball League Round 11 Yo ballers, what up? Let us know who your pick is for the Hops Sportswear Round 11 Player of the Week and you could win a FREE pair of Hops Basketball or Streetwe…
- December 9th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Melbourne Tigers vs Adelaide 36ers Game
Firstly, I was at the game. I have read many of the blogs and opinions and we will be making comment on Friday’s Inside the Game show about the game and the “incident”. Although over…
- December 8th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Should Hodge have been fined and/or suspended by the NBL?
Yo ballers, sorry but no! I do not think that Hodge should have been and Chuck Harmison and the NBL got this one right! Now…..I’ve already stated for the record how I felt about H…
- December 7th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Saturday Night Fever
Yo what up ballers? Now…..well, where do I start??? I, like many of you, attended the Sixers/Tigers game looking forward to a great game and maybe a few fireworks……but nothing and…
- December 4th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
My take on the Hodge/36ers saga!
Yo, what up ballers? Phil Smyth and I interviewed Julius Hodge on ‘Inside the Game’ last night. The purpose, simple, with so much being said about Julius, I wanted to give him the oppo…
- December 3rd, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
My side of the story with Melbourne Tigers Julius Hodge
Credit: Gaze Hoops Melbourne Tigers basketball player Julius Hodge is on the show tonight talking with former Adelaide 36ers coach Phil Smyth and former player Kevin Brooks. With recent comments made…
- November 29th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
Former Adl 36er Brad Davidson vs Melb Tigers Julius Hodge
On last week’s show, former Adelaide 36er Brad Davidson joined Kevin Brooks and Brett Maher in studio to talk about his controversial remarks made on his blog about former teammate and current M…
- November 26th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Inside the Game Internet TV basketball show
November 20 Show
Watch last week’s show whenever it suits you at http://www.AustraliaLiveTV.com/InsidetheGame. Guests included: Pat Tilden a Referee Manager for the NBL and the WNBL who spoke to the boys about…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Want Proof? ROI? its in the numbers…
Social media is an ever increasing hot topic of the digital world and I often get asked about the various statistics involved. This in itself is fairly difficult, as the online sphere is constantly sh…
- November 24th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Public Relations & Social Media: Important tools for 2010
A survey undertaken by Vertical Response in the US found that small business owners ranked PR and social media marketing amongst the most important tools for success in 2010. More than two thirds of r…
- November 23rd, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
LinkedIn Gets Serious in Australia
My favorite Social Network – LinkedIn has recently announced some great new free features and recently released some integration with Twitter and MS Outlook.…Â making it an even more esse…
- November 22nd, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Keeping it Simple … but not too Simple
Quite often I am asked what we do and how we do it. People are very keen to know about Social Media but few still see the benefits and especially the need to hire someone like us to help. S…
- November 11th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
What do Apple Macs and IBM Mainframes have in common …… Everything!
After 40 years in and around the IT industry I recently made the made the move to an Apple Mac …. and I love it.  Why? Because it’s simple, easy to use and it works with no hassles!!!…
- November 4th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Have I seen the future………..maybe???
In my last blog I talked about where email might be going … and now I might have seen the delivery of a vision much broader. I have become one of the chosen few given the opportunity to tryÂ…
- November 3rd, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
More youth Twittering
According to an eMarketer article new research has shown that more young people are using Twitter. Pew Internet and American Life Project results show 33% of online adults aged 18-29 use a status upda…
- October 26th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
The Death of Email (as we know it)
Some months ago I was predicting the death on Email and Websites with the growth of Social Networks/Media. But as was pointed out what I was predicting was the death of those tools as we have known…
- October 25th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Farmers Union toughens up. Now can we?
Picture: Matt Turner, The Advertiser Came across a news piece the other day in The Advertiser about the new ad campaign for Farmers Union Ice Coffee. The slogan “We’ve toughened the F.U.I.…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Are you LinkedIn or just in LinkedIn
When I first discovered LinkedIn and subsequently joined I was aware of the basics and not much more. But in the past couple of years I have used it extensively and gained some great benefits. Of…
- October 20th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Good old customer service
I’ve just returned from holidays and was surprised to come across some good old-fashioned customer service whilst I was away. I stayed at McCracken Country Club in Victor Harbor in South Austral…
- October 13th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
I need to listen to my own advice
If you want to succeed with social media you need a plan which includes developing content, blogging and distributing your thoughts to those that may be interested…… Â thats I what I tell…
- October 6th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
They may not be talking online but they want to see you there
Flickr: Seattle Municipal Archives A new study by the University of South Australia (UniSA) has found that 83% of people preferred conversing with others using traditional forms of communication such…
- September 16th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Consumers are listening to Social Media…but are companies??
New Aussie research from RightNow Technologies conducted by StollzNow Research shows that 23% of Australians have not used a company based on negative comments they have read on Social Networking site…
- September 9th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Vitaminwater Gets Facebookers Brainstorming on a New Flavor
Vitaminwater ventured into the world of crowdsourcing Tuesday with the launch of a new a Facebook application in which users compete to create the energy drink’s newest flavor, even down to the bott…
- September 2nd, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Marketing on Social Networks: Branding, Buying and Beyond.
A tool for every purpose Though social network advertising gets a lot of attention, it is only one of many ways marketers can reach customers on social networks. Social networks can be used for brandi…
- August 31st, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
It’s inevitable – online TV coming to everyone … Live too!
The latest data from comScore Video Metrix shows an incredible 158 million U.S. Internet users — or 80% of the country’s online population — watched online video in July. It is amaz…
- August 27th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
LAPD use Social Media in Lindsay Lohan case
I came across an article on Mashable that said the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had release footage of a break in at actress Lindsay Lohan’s house and posted it on YouTube. The LAPD obvi…
- August 20th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Advertising Real People
For awhile now we have been telling our clients if they want to be seen as authentic and genuine then get others (clients/customers, staff) to say who you are and what you do. And it now appears that…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Lois Kelly gets it right … and puts it simply again…
Lois Kelly has answered the “what should I write about in my Blog?” question in a very simple manner. And once again she is dead right … When she came out with her nine best stor…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Need a reason to have a Social Media Policy … for all Staff??
Posted in PR 2.0 Tagged: social media
- August 19th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Facebook controversy: this could happen to you
I came across an article recently about a recent Facebook Controversy involving Olympic athlete Tamsyn Lewis. The piece from The Advertiser by Scott Gullan says, “Australian team management has…
- August 18th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Follow Lance Armstrong … and ride with him..
As a poor example of a Lycra clad looney who loves to ride a bike, I naturally follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter … esp since he came to Adelaide this year to ride The Tour DownUnder. Now he is g…
- August 17th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Business benefits in social websites
Article about our e-book The Grumpy Old Managers Guide to Social Media Marketing in today’s Advertiser’s SA Business Journal by Frances Stewart. “Many South Australian businesses are…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Hasten slowly with Social Media
When it comes to Social Media you don’t have to be the fastest like Usain Bolt – what a stunning performance in Berlin – surely the best athletic feat of the past 25 years at least &…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
LinkedIn.The place to look. The Place to be found
Jobvite, a US company which provides a Web 2.0 platforms to manage all aspects of hiring people have just published their second annual Social Recruitment Survey. The 2009 Jobvite Social Recruitment s…
- August 16th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
I am a non-employer – now I know it!
Some years ago I decided after many years working for companies large and small who employed lots of people for me to manage, I didn’t want to be an employer. So when I started my own business i…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Lois Kelly – Keeping it simple
In line with our aims for The Grumpy Old Managers Guide to Social Media, I love it when I see people providing simple explanations. I also love it when a picture is used to tell the story. So when th…
- August 13th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
Optimistic CMOs to spend more … but not Traditional Advertising.
Whislt there is great optimism about the economy among senior Marketing execs they expect spending on tradional advertising to fall by 8 pc as they shift towards Internet marketing in a big way. The s…
- August 11th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
Media Mike bans MPs in ads
Adelaide’s Premier Mike Rann has announced that he is banning MPs, himself included, from appearing in Government funded advertisments on TV and doing voiceovers on radio ads such as road safety…
- August 10th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0 – McKinsey
McKinsey & Company, one of the worlds foremost business consulting firms, has just released their latest Web 2.0 Survey. McKinsey who have been the trusted advisors to leaders of companies, gov…
- August 9th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
What a Quirky idea
We are constantly talking about how Web 2.0 etc can not only change business it can create entirely new business ideas. One such idea/business I have come across on the boardofinnovation.com site rec…
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Keeping Up
radio rules …. but why now?
The launch of digital radio in Adelaide this week highlighted some our dated rules. An expert from one of the AM stations that is now available on Digital was asked by a listener if her reception woul…
- August 6th, 2009
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enovapr has posted a new entry on: Hip 2 Esquared
What the F*** is Social Media?
I came across one of the best presentations about Social Media – What the F*** is Social Media One Year Later from Marta Kagan. It’s easy to read, has great images and up-to-date stats tha…
