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Ken Yeung
With two decades of experience in content strategy, project management, and journalism, Ken is a seasoned digital marketer. He spent time as a reporter for VentureBeat and The Next Web covering Silicon Valley innovations and personalities, and also served as Flipboard’s Assistant Managing Editor overseeing the platform's technology, science and health coverage. Ken has a genuine passion for storytelling and enjoys staying on top of the latest technology and business trends. Outside of work, he finds joy in photography, has a soft spot for startups, and loves exploring new places and networking.
DISCOVERING YOUR INFLUENCER SERIES: Twitter Me This
In an earlier post, I talked about some of the resources on the web that you could look into as a starting point to help you find your influencers when you want to promote your “widgets”. What we’ve talked about thus far is how you can begin your search by using sites like AllTop, social […]
DISCOVERING YOUR INFLUENCER SERIES: Seek & Ye Shall Find
There are times when I’m working on a project and the best thing for its success is to reach out to people who might be interested in talking about it – these would be those with some considerable influence and could include bloggers, members of the press, celebrities or Subject Matter Experts. But for small […]
Screw Who ‘Owns’ Social Media, The Content Grid Decides It All
One of the constant issues that comes to mind when dealing with web marketing is who owns what. This is probably a more critical issue when dealing with social media because a major part of this solution is dependent on the creation of content. Without the content in place, there’s no context, and people won’t […]
The Story Behind Zappos’ Success Lies Behind Two Empowering Words: Deliver Happiness
It was last year at the South by Southwest interactive conference where I first heard about Tony Hsieh (@zappos) and Zappos, for that matter. But over the next few days after Hsieh’s incredible keynote, I got a chance to chat with some of the Zappos team that were present and passing out playing cards as […]
What The Movement Against Facebook’s Privacy Policy Is Really Saying About The Hype
This is a cross-blog post from Network Solutions Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on June 3, 2010. In my last post, I talked about how privacy issues were affecting the way people view their social networks. In this post, I’d like to talk about the growing movement that is […]
Discovering The Social Marketing Compass To Help Chart Our Course Through Social Media
We’ve all become exposed to a slew of social media tools and services that businesses might be interested in pursuing. But are we simply suffering from the dreaded shiny metal object theory? How can we present and validate our programs to our bosses instead of having our company viewed as taking advantage of the “flavor […]
Klout Announces With Their New Site That The Revolution of Influence Has Begun
With social media, one of the hardest things for businesses to figure out is who is influential and who isn’t. Just because someone has a high number of followers or is more chatty on social networks like Twitter does not mean that they are automatically influential. On the contrary, it could be that someone with […]
With ‘Open Leadership,’ Create a Better Customer Relationship
Are you looking to get into social media? Have you ever encountered in your work a struggle to get your boss to buy into a program that you know will work, but have to fight tooth and nail just to get them to simply understand what’s being said? If so, then I suggest you read […]
Analyzing Seesmic’s Next Move: Moving Online To The Offline?
It’s quite interesting to see how Seesmic has progressed over the years. I remember how they used to be focused on trying to be the video version of Twitter (minus the 140 character limit) and that people were going around posting video conversations of themselves on the site. Soon it was integrated into commenting systems […]
Social Networking Revival: It Might Be MySpace’s Time To Shine Over Facebook
I know TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington wrote about this earlier, but I wanted to offer some thoughts as it relates to Facebook’s latest privacy” crisis of faith”. With more and more talk about what Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly (and yet to be proven) said via instant message that gave people the impression that privacy is just another […]

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