Journalism’s existential crisis; When will newspapers die?

That was the question asked by a student at the University of South Australia’s free public lecture series, Horizon SA Forum, with publisher Eric Beecher discussing Journalism’s Crisis. Beecher’s lecture focused on the problem with the century-old business model that supports quality journalism and whether or not quality journalism can survive the internet revolution – meaning [...]

APAC EXC1TE Award Winners 2012! Congratulations Anna Bray!

After what was a hotly contested competition, this week saw the culmination of the EXC1TE Awards, Text 100’s global employee recognition program. Text 100’s EXC1TE Awards celebrate and reward the outstanding performance of employees across all levels of our company. At Text 100 we recognise the achievements and excellent work of our people across eight [...]

Text 100 Australia’s Top Viral Videos of 2011

As 2011 draws to a close the brains trust at Text 100 Sydney thought we’d pull together a compilation of the top 2011 viral videos. They are in no particular order, except for Nyan Cat of course . Enjoy and let us know what you think! Full videos in order: Nyan Cat Charlie Sheen Winning [...]

Working remotely may be harder than you think, but it’s possible

There are many reasons why we are increasingly seeing more and more options for employees to work remotely. These include but are not limited to increased workforce flexibility, managing morale, improved productivity and cost savings on office space and technology. As technology continues to evolve and proliferate in the workplace and businesses mobilise their operations, [...]

Text 100 ELT digital camp out

I recently returned from Europe and the best Text 100 ELT (Executive Leadership team) meeting of my time as Regional Director for South Asia.  It may have had something to do with the beautiful location of Madrid and the great Rioja, Jamon and shopping but that’s for another blog post! In all seriousness, I think [...]

Text 100 nominated for 12 Sabre Awards this year!

We are proud to announce that Text 100 has been nominated for a total of 12 awards at this year’s APAC Sabre Awards. This includes a nomination for the Sydney team and IBM for work on the Smarter Cities campaign. Holmes Report Sabre Awards 2011

Breaking: Text 100 Australia’s Simon Fitzgerald wins the EXC1TE award for Excellence in Digital Consultancy

Account Director, Simon Fitzgerald today took away the Text 100 EXC1TE award for Excellence in Digital Consultancy at this afternoon’s regional award ceremony! The EXC1TE Awards are Text 100′s way to formally recognize employees performing great work and reward them in a meaningful way! Over the past year Simon’s work for campaigns with Optus SMB [...]

The Science of Social Timing

Here’s a really cool infographic on the science behind social timing that I came across while having a browse on the Digitial Buzz blog. It’s got some good insight into what day, and what time of day, is best for tweeting and posting content on Twitter and Facebook. Tweeting at 6pm, as opposed to 2pm, could be [...]

Apps Galore!

Anyone who has a smartphone will admit to three things: You’ll never go anywhere without it You’ll never want anything else You’ll never (ever) get bored Gone are the days of sitting in doctor’s surgeries with nothing to do but twiddle your thumbs, bite your nails or stare at the floor. Smartphone’s have become such [...]

Welcome Karalee to Text 100!

Text 100 Sydney welcomes our newest addition to the team – Senior Director and APAC Digital Strategist, Karalee Evans! Karalee has been in comms and PR for more than a decade and comes to the family from Amnesia Razorfish where she was Social Strategy Manager. There she led her team on strategy, execution, analytics and brand [...]