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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.

Social Media

FriendFeed: Will You Accept Facebook’s Friend Request?

Breaking news coming from Silicon Valley today includes the apparent acquisition of FriendFeed by social media giant Facebook. Coverage was spread across all the major blogs, including TechCrunch, Mashable and reported on other websites like Louis Gray, Aaron Brazell and FriendFeed power user Robert Scoble. I’m not sure if this makes much sense for FriendFeed […]

Network Solutions

A Tip From HARO’s Playbook: Community Organizers In Need

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 16, 2009. A while ago, an amazing “movement” was stated by Peter Shankman called Help A Reporter Out. The group’s goal was set to accomplish one mission: to connect reporters with sources. Thanks […]

Marketing

What Happens When You Think Your Customers Will Kowtow To You?

It’s often a good thing I’m using Twitter because otherwise I wouldn’t have come across this great new video that explains a lot and demonstrates the power of a community. As you may know, currently President Obama is trying to get his health care reform bill passed in the United States Congress and everyone is […]

Social Media

The Rules of Stealing Have Changed. Creative Commons is in Effect.

A few days ago I’ve had the good fortune to attend one of the best technology and social media conferences on the West Coast – Twiistup. As is typical of my attendance, I brought along my camera to snap a “few” photos (you can see them here). I uploaded select photos onto Flickr and included […]

Social Media

Understanding the Name of the Game: Retweeting

I happen to be online quite a bit these days. Often I’m checking out what is going on with Twitter and if there’s something interesting, then I’ll be more than glad to retweet that information. However, it should be noted that people don’t seem to understand the basic premise behind what the meaning is about […]

Email Marketing

Basic Bootcamp For Email Marketing

I once wrote a blog post that covered what some important, yet confusing and probably overlooked, piece of legislation passed by the United States Congress several years ago. After writing that blog post, I was looking at what the theme of it was. Originally it was supposed to cover just what the piece of legislation […]

Social Media

Twitter Me This: A New Twitter Homepage Is Unveiled.

Surprise! Surprise! The fine folks at Twitter have just released a new design for their homepage and it seems to be all the buzz on the Internet world. I must say that at first it looks a lot different than the original design and after taking a closer look, I’m pretty impressed about it. One […]

Marketing

iStrategyLabs: Solving Problems For Companies Through Use of Social Media

I’ve been a fan of Peter Corbett’s for quite some time and there’s just no reason why I shouldn’t. If you’re thinking that this is a rehash of my #FollowFriday post where I called him one a “Capital Innovator”, I’m sorry to disappoint you as I’m not calling attention to that post, but rather I’m […]

Social Media

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 […]

Network Solutions

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 […]