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Ken Yeung
Today’s Business Brought To You By Twitter.
I’m going to be honest – I got the idea for this blog post from a tweet that I saw from Christopher Peri, creator of the Twitter application TwittFilter. It was a simple tweet: “Twitter is the new business card” and that struck a chord with me immediately. Having gone to numerous events and conferences […]
A Convergence of Talent & Startups is Set to Go Down at Twiistup
This is a cross-blog post from Network Solution’s Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on July 7, 2009. A truly unique experience is about to happen in the land of Hollywood and Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles. At the end of this month, the City of Angels will play […]
Brand Engagement Measured On The Social Web
Earlier this week, Altimeter CEO & co-author of the marketing book Groundswell, Charlene Li, published a new report that features an analysis on the top 100 brands based on their level of engagement. With the new report & an online tool called ENGAGEMENTdb, Li provides us with some interesting insights on how some prestigious (and […]
Dear President Obama: When Will You Start Talking “To” Us, Not “At” Us?
For the past several years, I’ve put up with politicians getting used to technology and then finding themselves being “successful” in their political campaigns because they’ve “discovered” social media. I find it especially troubling when the only time people communicate with the public is when they actually need them (e.g. votes on election day or […]
Understanding Emails Will Help Car Dealerships Understand Customers
Nearly two years ago, I relocated myself to the Washington, DC Metro Area and realized that I needed a car. Having never bought a new car before, I consulted my father and he helped me pick out some cars that I might be interested in. Once I’ve selected the make and model that I wanted […]
Monitoring Content Can’t Be This Easy. LazyFeed Says It Can.
At last Friday’s TechCrunch event, several startups were featured with some even launching or releasing new products that very day. LazyFeed just happened to be one of them, but with an interesting twist. Don’t let the name fool you. LazyFeed isn’t some “crazy web application that outsources the services to India where they’ll report back […]
Exploring It All With The Conversation Prism
Back in August 2008, the author of the book Putting Public Back In Public Relations and creator of the term “PR 2.0”, Brian Solis released the Conversation Prism infographic. But what exactly is this Conversation Prism? According to Solis, it’s to help “provide a visual representation of the true expansiveness of the Social Web and […]
CrunchUp Wants To Show You How it is in Real-Time
This Friday, technology blog TechCrunch, brings to the San Francisco Bay Area a special event called CrunchUp – a conference mashup designed to bring brilliant minds together to explore and map out different paths that the technology stream can take. Hosted by TechCrunch’s IT editor Steve Gillmore and the creator of blog, Michael Arrington, this […]
Getting Social In Real Life With The Social Media Club
It’s fascinating how people use social media. Really. It’s definitely a means of communicating with one another and getting people sharing common interests. If enough people are interested, then perhaps an organization forms. This is exactly what will happen this Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area. Organized through the work of Barbara Drady and […]
Crowdsourcing Your Employee Requirements.
Last week while walking through the streets of San Francisco, I was reading a tweet by Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang that stated electronics retail giant Best Buy was looking to hire a digital strategist. Immediately I clicked on the link and read something amazing: they were looking for someone who at the very least […]
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