GridAKL Innovation Day – a festival of creative and high-tech industries
Samantha Chalmers
October 4, 2017In case you haven’t heard of GridAKL, it is part of the innovation precinct in Wynard Quarter operating…
Samantha Chalmers
October 4, 2017
Snapchat in the sky with diamonds
Samantha Chalmers
September 26, 2017Snapchat is six years’ old this month, and the company is not slowing down on its stream of awesome…
Social Media’s impact on the 2017 NZ Election
Samantha Chalmers
September 14, 2017Advance voting for the 2017 NZ Election began on Monday this week. With more booths available this year and…
Oppo – the new kids on the block in smartphones
Samantha Chalmers
September 13, 2017If you haven’t yet heard of Oppo (or even if you have) I’ve got some interesting news about the…
@apple on Instagram
Samantha Chalmers
September 8, 2017It’s been 1 month since Apple launched their official Instagram. The tech giant racked up 20,000 followers in…
UberEATS arrives in the capital
Samantha Chalmers
September 6, 2017When UberEATS launched in Auckland back in March, we knew it was just a matter of time before the…
NZ Marketing Summit coming in September
Social Media NZ
August 31, 2017We are stoked to be supporting the NZ Marketing Summit for 2017! This awesome event is coming to Auckland…
Virtual Reality – changing the way we learn
Samantha Chalmers
August 23, 2017With the desire to create “powerful virtual reality training solutions for complex and hazardous scenarios”, Corvecto is taking the potential…
TV for Facebook goes live in the U.S.
Samantha Chalmers
August 15, 2017In a follow-on move from the Video tab that was released in the U.S. last year, Facebook has created…
2017 New Zealand Social Media Awards – Finalists Update
Social Media NZ
August 10, 2017The finalists for this year’s New Zealand Social Media Awards were announced on the 28th of July and we…
Facebook Stories: The update no one asked for
Samantha Chalmers
August 9, 2017Facebook is the world’s top social networking site with two billion monthly users. It’s a huge number, one that…
2017 New Zealand Social Media Awards
Social Media NZ
June 15, 2017There is a really exciting social media event coming up that we want to tell you all about! It’s…
Apple iOS 11 update: The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Samantha Chalmers
June 9, 2017Today marks the final day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for 2017. Earlier in the week, Apple unveiled…
The return of #NZSOMO
Samantha Chalmers
June 7, 2017At Social Media NZ, we love being involved in events that bring social-nuts like ourselves together! So we wanted…
Top Picks for Techweek’17
Social Media NZ
May 3, 2017This Saturday is the start of our national Techweek for 2017. Techweek’17 is a 9-day series of events that…
VR expands into car sales with Land Rover
Samantha Chalmers
May 2, 2017Virtual reality is one of the most exciting new technologies at the moment and is generating great levels of…
Touching use of VR for Social Good
Social Media NZ
April 28, 2017Here at Social Media NZ, we like to focus on cool things happening in the social media sphere! However,…
Social media and the rise of Blockchain
Social Media NZ
April 20, 2017Blockchain technologies are having an increasingly apparent impact on the world across a variety of industries. As the world…
GIFs could be coming to Facebook comments
Samantha Chalmers
March 27, 2017This week, Facebook are testing a GIF button in the comments section with a small number of users. The…
UberEATS has launched in Auckland!
Samantha Chalmers
March 9, 2017Last year, UberEATS went live in America and Australia with the idea of putting all the best local food…