HatchMatchDispatch a new Australian site for births, deaths and marriage announcements

HatchMatchDispatch is a new Australian-developed website that will bring people together from all over the world to save and share their special moments in life. 

Founder, Geoff Drucker says, “HatchMatchDispatch is a site for births, deaths, engagements, marriages and more.  It is designed to allow people to share their life moments from new things happening (‘Hatch’), to them coming together with others (‘Match’) or chapters ending (‘Dispatch’).

“Other classified ad categories like cars, jobs and real estate have been huge successes online, but the difference with HatchMatchDispatch is that announcements are free. Touted as ‘social networking’ around special moments.

Free seminars on social media marketing by Keren Flavell #geekgirl endorsed!

Creator of wholesome media, Keren Flavell is offering free seminars on using social networking for promoting your social cause.

Hosted at CERES Environment Park (Melbourne) from 7PM – 8PM on Thursday evening (Feb 25th & March 4th) – contact Keren to reserve your place!

First session, will focus on how to set-up and use a Facebook Fan Page. The following week she’ll be talking about Twitter and other social networking sites.

Keren is committed to assisting people who are seeking to create positive change in our world. Be part of the magic.!!

http://wholesomemedia.wordpress.com/

The Venn Diagram of Social Media

The Venn Diagram of Social Media

National call for mobile phone poetry

RMIT University is calling for poems that will be bluetoothed to peoples’ mobiles during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Poems need to be 140 characters or less, in any style or subject matter. Twitter page to follow from August 22nd, 2009 is #RMIT_Poetry.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 31 July

For more information, visit

Mobile Textualism

<http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/poetry>

Happn.in on Twitter

Happn.in tracks local Twitter users in 52 global cities, and computes a list of the top 10 phrases used in each city every hour. The top phrases used significantly more often that hour than the last are compiled into a list of trends. As Happn.in explains, “A phrase’s hotness is calculated with the ratio of the [percentage of users who used that phrase during the past hour] to the [mean percentage of users who used that phrase over the past week]. Phrases decay exponentially, and quickly drop from the list once they have stopped being used.”

More from Mashable’s – Josh Catone.

GG: Anyone know if this works for Melbourne or Sydney?

Google does the Wave

Billed as “the e-mail of the future,” Google Wave is the result of a multiyear project inside of Google to reinvent the in-box, blending e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, and perhaps, with input from developers, connections to the world of social networking.

Wave organizes Internet discussions in the trendy stream of consciousness fashion. It’s a little bit Twitter, a little bit Friendfeed, and a little bit Facebook all in one service, allowing you to send direct messages to online contacts with real-time replies, share photos or documents, and add or delete members of the conversation as needed.

Read more from CNET

Visible Tweets

Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!

http://visibletweets.com/

12 different ways of using social networking to find a job

Social networking is becoming an effective way to recruit and screen candidates as well as find out about potential employers. Here are some tips for how to use it to get a job

Editor’s note: Social networking is hard work, it’s more than likely worth it once you intitiate your contacts and get some industry insights and gossip as to what’s out there. But don’t be fooled it’s an easy substitute for some cold calling or constant review of online employment sites. Most people just know seek, but I also use a comprehensive list like the one provided at RMIT’s career link page. GG xx