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Hi there! My name is Duane Brown.
I am a digital strategist helping clients connect with their communities and stakeholders online. I've a strong passion for digital marketing and video games. Read my full bio or contact me if you wish to hire me for your next campaign or project.
You may have also come here because of my popular post: Paid Social Media Monitoring and Measurement Tools: The (almost) Complete Guide
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
The Importance of Market Research
I wrote a great post about The Importance of Market Research over at Original Thought.
One of the best examples from my past experience was when a client wanted to apply for a government grant. They had an idea of who they thought their target market was and wanted to put that on their grant application [...]
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Book Review: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
I finally had the opportunity to read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink.
It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, [...]
Posted in General Tagged Blink, Book Review, Malcolm Gladwell, Thinking, Tipping Point Leave a comment
I Appeared on The Engaging Brand Blog
A few weeks ago I had opprtunity to appear on the The Engagning Brand Blog. A few of the topics we covered are the following:
Can marketing learn lessons from the video game market?
Is interactivity a key aspect for business to consider?
Are virtual worlds a merging of video games and real life?
Is mobile technology making video [...]
Posted in Marketing, Video & TV Ads Leave a comment
Weekly News & Link Roundup: August 17, 2008 – September 13, 2008
Here is the latest news and stories having an affect on our industry over the last week. Our readers share bookmarks with the BandwidthCamp community by tagging them BandwidthCamp on del.icio.us (a social bookmarking tool). If you’d like to participate, sign-up for delicious and share articles you think the community might find interesting. Enjoy [...]
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Tipster Thursdays: 5 Unusual Uses For A Wiki
Tipster Thursdays is a monthly feature covering technology and how you can incorporate it as part of your marketing plan. We’re going to look at different pieces of technology like Twitter, Pingie, Wikis, SmugMug, Facebook and delicious and show you 5 different and unusual uses for the technology. This weeks column is going to look [...]
Weekly News & Link Roundup: September 21 – 27, 2008