Ken Yeung

The Attack on Conversation: a big mea culpa?

We’ve all been guilty of it…putting our foot in our mouth and saying something either over the air or online that we regret and can’t take back. I know I have, but when it comes to negativity or praise for our brand or company, why are people attacking how it’s handled? Over the past few […]

Just who are spammers trying to kid on Twitter?

If you’ve become quite popular on Twitter or happen to have a rather large gathering of people, then you might know the recent trend of people spoofing your name. A perfect example is what happened to Forrester Research Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang. A very popular Twitterer, Jeremiah has amassed a following of over 30,000 people […]

Gary Vaynerchuk: Bringing the thunder to a computer near you

Practically everyone who’s online has heard of Gary Vaynerchuk, the successful entrepeneur who started Wine Library TV and has grown it into the “empire” that it has become. And just how did he do this? Through practicing what he preaches and also taking advantage of the Internet. Many people will say that President Obama exploited […]

Your numbers are lying to you.

Many of you know that I’m a rather “prolific” twitterer. I spend plenty of time on the microblogging application and like to read what’s posted by many of those that I’m following. However, one thing that I’ve grown to accept is that the number of followers and followees doesn’t mean that much compared to the […]

South by Southwest bound.

A Twestival in San Francisco?

Last night at Paradise Lounge, in conjunction with dozens of other similar events happening throughout the world, the San Francisco Twitter community came together to support Charity: Water, a non-profit designed to help provide clean drinking water to the world. What was this event? Why it was a Twestival? Perhaps one of the biggest events […]

How SocialCorp will help businesses but not you.

Out of the books that I have read so far in 2009, each has had their own theme and application to business and online marketing. SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate by Joel Postman is nothing different. While you would like to figure this book has some application to everyday people, it’s main applicability extends to […]

Excuse me? You have a guestbook?

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me to take a look at some websites. What I saw brought back a bit of nostalgia from a few years back when we were all creating web 1.0 static websites. You remember those times, right? This is when everyone use WYSIWYG editors like AOL […]

Lessons learned from a website redesign

I’ve handled many website redesigns over the course of my career in the interactive and no matter whether you’re working on a small website, microsite, landing page, or mega-site employing the latest and greatest technology known to man for managing how to update a single piece of content, you’re always going to take something away […]

10 Ways To Be More Professional With Email

We’re all working professionals, right? You’ve used email before, right? Email. You know, the bit of content that you send out using Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, and other web programs? What I’ve encountered over the many years of sending emails out back and forth is that many folks just don’t get how to send emails. […]