Social Media Expert
Laurel was named Industry Head, Social Media (Marketing Magazine) in 2010, is currently #4 woman blogger in Australia (BlogChicks), #5 Australian blogger (B&T Magazine) and in the Power150 Marketing and Media blogs in the world (AdNews USA). Her books are available for download (7000 downloads so far),
Laurel has been a virtual communities/online Community/Social Network consultant since 1989 when she was involved in Twin Peaks IRC and Usenet groups online. For the last decade, Laurel has been running virtual worlds and MMORPGs as a game moderator, forum admin, customer service manager and marketing consultant. Laurel has a patent in social network currencies and is considered a leading social media monetization strategist worldwide.
Since 2005, Laurel has been teaching social media classes, including at the University of Sydney, has advised projects such as Interactive (social media) Emmy award winning Scorched.TV and recently went to Saudi Arabia to work on the iMatter Project for Middle East Broadcasting, teaching Arabic women how to blog and use social media to gain a “voice”. She also runs workshops on Government 2.0 on their social media strategies in Asia.
Laurel is the Female Social Media Guru in Australia
Laurel’s History
Laurel Papworth has been involved in social networks online since 1989, when she ran a media Usenet newsgroup and an IRC chat channel. Since then, Laurel has worked with gaming sites (official communities for Everquest and Ultima Online, amongst others), technical developer, health and media communities. At an Enterprise level, Laurel was involved with digitising Fairfax (Sydney Morning Herald) in the early ’90s, established Convergent Media at Optus in the late ’90s and enterprise communities of practice for Cisco Systems in Asia (2000’s). She currently consults worldwide for Channel Ten Australian Idol, Sulake (makers of Habbo) Finland and recently (March 2008) finished a week of keynotes and workshops in Saudi Arabia teaching Arabic women how to blog. Laurel consults privately but also teaches Facebook, blogs and Marketing at the University of Sydney (for the last 3 years) and social media courses throughout Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai.
Contact details:
Please contact Laurel on 0432684992 (+61 432684992) or email: laurel (at) laurelpapworth.com.
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