{"id":3839,"date":"2014-09-29T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:25:36","slug":"social-media-use-in-rural-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/social-media-use-in-rural-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media use in rural Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how Australia&#8217;s bush grapevine now works.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I drove home from Longreach, taking photographs along the way.<\/p>\n<p>I just got a call from a bloke carting livestock, asking if I was in Charters Towers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Roadtrain photograph I tweeted\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FionaLakeAus\/status\/516091379215130624\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;d tweeted a photograph of his roadtrain, refuelling at Charters Towers<\/a>. It was seen by someone in Central Queensland who recognised it and tagged the truckdriver in a Facebook post. His wife then found my phone number on my website, via the watermark on the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before but it bears repeating; rural Australia is leading the way when it comes to building an incredible communication network via social media. In particular, on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quickly reaching the point at which the list of people not using social media, is a shorter than the list who are.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Contrary to popular mythology, rural Australians are very quick to take up anything new, that is obviously useful.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It underscores the absolute necessity for rural Australia to have access to the fastest and most reliable voice and data transmission networks available.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how Australia&#8217;s bush grapevine now works. On Saturday I drove home from Longreach, taking photographs along the way. I just got a call from a bloke carting livestock, asking if I was in Charters Towers on Saturday. I&#8217;d tweeted a photograph of his roadtrain, refuelling at Charters Towers. It was seen by someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,11,223],"tags":[82,179,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}