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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.
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Blog Swap by Adam of Throwing Quarters
Todays guest post is by Adam from Throwing Quarters. It’s a blog swap happening over at 20SB. I hope you enjoy his post.
So I want to thank Duane for opening his blog up to me. Who am I? I’m a blogger from Cleveland, Ohio. Where is Cleveland, Ohio? Yeah, that would be a small city [...]
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6th 20SB Blog Swap
Last week I signed up to do a blog swap over at 20SB. Today my post is going to go live over at Adam’s blog Throwing Quarters. His post is going to go up later today. I can’t wait to see what he wrote about for my blog.
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Building an Agency from the Ground Up
After last weeks post on The Future Digital Agency. I wanted to take a step back and think more about not just a future digital agency but how you would build the agency from the ground up.
What would you use for computers?
Would you go with a Tier1 data center or back up your data using [...]
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The Future Digital Agency
I’ve been thinking a lot about what a future agency would look like in the digital space. You’ve the Organic and Critical Mass‘ who have a strong skill set on the current bread and butter of digital advertising. You’ve Headshift & Dachis Group who are looking to pioneer a new space called social business design. [...]
Crowdsourcing Your Community: BlackBox Republic
A few months ago I signed up for a website called BlackBox Republic. The idea behind the site and how they wanted to not be like LavalLife and Match.com was really a pull for me. Having done the dating site game back in college and knowing that on 95% of all websites are the game [...]
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A Digital Agency That Does Everything
Some friends and I are joining forces to combine our resources and launch a digital agency that speacilizing in one area of digital marketing. The area we picked was based on the feedback that we’ve gathered from talking with many bands and firms that we would consider potential partners and clients. We talked last night [...]
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Len Kendall’s 30 Under 30 Tweeters: Volume 1
Len over at Constructive Grumpiness has started a new project called 30 Under 30 Tweeters: Volume 1. The basic idea is to recommend some of the up and coming people under 30 years of age on Twitter. I’m on the list, which makes this my disclaimer line…. but you should really go check out some [...]
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Lemonade Movie Trailer
This movie trailer is inspiring and yet so much more real then anyone can know. It’s about finding out who you really are and getting the time, opportunity and the keys to do it. This is a must watch for everyone.
More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is [...]
The Tim Hortons Saga
Instead of writing up my own post that won’t really offer anything new on this quickly resolved issue. I’m going to point to my friend Jaime Woo’s article as it sums up everything in a nicely done present: The speed of the internet part one: Tim’s big slip. I do love how on Twitter a [...]
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