Images of scantily clad women are being widely circulated without their knowledge through a private “men’s only” Facebook group, reigniting the debate for stricter privacy laws for social media in Australia.

Since its inception two weeks ago, “The Brocial Network” has attracted more than 8000 members. The site features hundreds of images of women in bikinis and lingerie, obtained from the personal Facebook photo albums of the members’ female friends.

A 21-year-old student who is pictured in a bikini with her friends, wasn’t aware that her photo had been circulated via the page.
“It makes me feel sick that people would go to the effort of taking [uploading] the picture and posting it up,” she said. “I just thought [the picture] would be taken as fun, not as the way that they’ve turned it around.”

She has since been inundated with random “friend” requests from men she doesn’t know.

Source: smh.com.au

However, the one area that remains labour intensive and hence expensive is the creation of quality “content” – the words and pictures that tell your story to virtual passers by.

Even though web users are known to “scan” most web content more than traditional media, they are also very quick to pick up on any aspect that is less than professional – including the written word and even more importantly, photography.

In turn this content needs to be “optimised” for search engines by the strategic placement and enhancement of your chosen keywords.

But as challenging as this activity is for many smaller business operators, it is not the single barrier to succeeding online.

That barrier is simply being able to address the web’s insatiable demand for ongoing, regular content.

Source: smartcompany.com.au

PS Your Image knows how to create SEO web content.

Cumberland Business Chamber announces a new Have Your Say forum for business owners in the Holroyd, Merrylands, Greystanes and Smithfield.

The Chamber has regular discussion groups with local councils and state governments and it can advocate local business concerns.

Your Image is proud to join the Hills Shire Council as sponsors of “Playing To Win” on July 12.

The brainchild of Power of 300, this networking and education session is to help local Hills based businesses to grow.

Panel speakers include Natalie Moutia, co founder of Success Womens Network, and Greg Tan, director of New Leaf Design. And my client Power of 300, which provides business owners with dynamic BusinessBoard and BusinessHub programs, might have a few words to say.

Hills Shire Council
Function Room
129 Showground Rd Castle Hill
July 12 Starts 6PM
Free admission

RSVP to Girgis on info@powerof300.com.au

Go to powerof300.com.au

From June companies, governments and cashed-up individuals will be able to augment their .com, .net and other standard web addresses with .anything. For $US185,000 – and $US25,000 a year – they will be able to buy anything from .qantas to .music to .sydney and own the entire domain.

The changes have been debated for six years by the global governing body for web addresses, ICANN, and they are expected to reduce people’s reliance on search engines such as Google (for instance one could visit restaurants.sydney or bars.sydney instead of doing a search).

Source: smh.com.au