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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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Events: MaRS Best Practices Series & Mobile Experience Innovation Centre
I’m hitting up a couple of events this week Thursday:
MaRS Best Practices Series
Buildings are responsible for more than half of urban carbon emissions. Greening our buildings is clearly a cleantech priority – but what does “green” mean? Which technologies work, and which are window-dressing? What’s possible by economic argument alone? This talk will take you [...]
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Events: Net Change Week, Social Gaming 2009 and Search Engine Strategies Toronto
Looks like June is going to be a busy month on top of me taking my last class at Ryerson. There are 4 events I’m looking to attend on top of Web Analytics Wednesday.
Net Change Week: June 8 -12th, 2009
Net Change is a week-long event designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change. [...]
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Event: Web Analytics Wednesday – Fionn MacCools
I’m be attending my first Web Analytics Wednesday in Toronto at Fionn MacCools on June 3, 2009. Please join us for Toronto’s premier digital measurement networking and social event.
Host: Patrick Glinski
Date: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Venue: Fionn MacCools
Address: 181 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, Toronto Ontario (Venue | Map | Group)
I started digging more into [...]
Events: Vancouver Digital Week
I leave for Vancouver Digital Week today. Having never been to Vancouver let alone out West. I’m going to spend the weekend getting to know the city and what all the fuss is about out there. Then on Monday I’m taking the bulls by the horn and learning with some of the greatest minds in [...]
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Events: Mobile Monday @ MaRS
I’m heading off to the Mobile Monday @ MaRS event in a few hours. If you are attending, be sure to come and say hi. Michael J. O’Farrell is going to be our speaker tonight with the goal of learning about:
About the booming mobile Internet economy in Canada and world wide
How to get actively involved [...]
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Events: PodCamp London & Digital Media: Experience Design Workshop
I’m going to be at PodCamp London this Satuday (April 25, 2009) and I hope to see some of you there. On Tuesday night I’m heading over to my school (Ryerson) for their Digital Media: Experience Design Workshop event. Both events are stacking up to be really great.
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Meet Tara Hunt (Whuffie! Power!) Today!
I had the great opportunity to meet Tara Hunt today. I learned more about Whuffie power and can’t wait to read her new book shipping next week. I’m going to do a great write up in the next feww days… YEAH!
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Skittles Scandal: Tracking the Skittles Experiment [Friday March 27th]
Besides the Transplant the Rainbow video keeping up with the results from the week before. There is not much else to report on the Skittles campaign. On April 3rd I’ll be giving my overview of the last month and what I think Skittles could do to improve their efforts.
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Transplant the Rainbow: 14,068
Skittles – Tailor: [...]
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Personalization: Know Who You Are Talking Too
I got a weird call from an insurance company today. However, the lady on the other end called me Greg. I told her my name was not Geg and it was Duane. I lost interest the minute she got my name wrong. Lets forget that she started the call by being unsure of what to [...]
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Novus vs Shaw: The Great Canadian Battle of Social Media