Social Ignition

Have you noticed the new emotion icons in your Facebook profile status update? It allows you to choose emoticons that express how you're feeling. They're pretty cool and potentially these might be an interesting way for pages to communicate on a more informal way with customers too if they become available for pages.

On a day when many people around Australia have taken time out to consider Anzac Day and what it means to them, social media has shown again that it can unite across countries and cultures. Check out monitter.com, a real time Twitter monitoring tool. It allows you to monitor hashtags in real time and is still continually updating with the and tags. Amazing to see tweets around the world reflecting on the sacrifice of so many.