Friday, January 21, 2011

Whitsundays local helps Queenslanders stay dry

Most of you in the Whitsundays know that we are on Twitter as @QLDWhitsundays. Not many of you would know that we are also on Twitter as @QLDOnline.

In a report prepared today for the Queensland Police Service, and Queensland Department of Public Works, we were told that we were the second most important source for true and factual information about the recent Queensland Floods. The most important source was the Queensland Police Service Media Group.


In any other Queensland country town, if an individual was acknowledged as being the second most important source of information in Social Media for Queenslanders during its worst natural disaster, you would expect the local paper would do a story on it.

I am not holding my breath or hanging by the phone waiting for the Whitsunday Times to call, so that's why I've written this piece myself.

We provided the Queensland people with factual, up to date information, at a time when it was most desperately needed. Its interesting to note that in the graph above, not one APN Newspaper is listed in the top 10 sources providing information about the Queensland floods.

Currently, our Klout (Influence in Social Media) is at 69, which puts us on the 'influence meter' as:

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