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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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Category Archives: Online Worlds
Digital distribution in video games
Opportunity in the digital distribution business of video games. Yesterday an interview with Randy Pitchford from Gearbox went live on MaximumPC:
“Steam helps. As a guy in this industry though, I don’t trust Valve,” Pitchford said. “I, personally, trust Valve. But I’m just saying, honestly, I think a lot of the industry doesn’t.”
“…really, really dangerous [...]
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The Digital Gamer: All Grown Up?
On Monday the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog posted The Grown-Up Gamer. As a digital marketer and gamer I decided to check out the article. I thought it would provide me with some new knowledge or bring a unique perspective to the search game. However, the article mainly focused on how gamers are mostly 25 – [...]
Interview with Nikolas Badminton from Blast Radius – Part 2
Last week I had the pleasure of talking with Nik from Blast Radius in part 1 of our interview. This week I finish the interview were we talk about social media and how its integrating with client projects. We also dabble in what’s the difference between bought media, owned media and earned media. Lastly, we [...]
Also posted in Search Engine Marketing, Social Media 3 Comments
Having Different Touch Points is Key to Growth Online
Last week I wrote about Google’s local business center and promoted the post a bit on my Twitter account. I left it at that and went on with keeping my goals for this year. However, a funny thing happened in the last week.
Also posted in Social Media Tagged Critical Mass, David Armano, Facebook, Google’s local business center, Touch Points, Twitter 1 Comment
How Mainstream is Second Life Really? [One Year Later]
Last year I wrote a great post about Second Life. Having a new professor bring up gaming and virtual worlds was great. We rarely get to discuss these things in class, which I feel is a shame at time. I was glad to see and heard my professor understands that gaming is important. I admit [...]
Posted in Online Worlds Tagged "Virtual World", Anshe Chung, Gold farm, Linden Labs, Second Life, Wiki, World of Warcraft, WoW Leave a comment
Google, Rockstar and Yahoo…
It’s been a crazy week leading up to E3. This week has been all about Google’s Lively, Rockstar Games potential ban on their Bully: Scholarship Edition game. Then you’ve Yahoo, Microsoft’s new love interest, shacking things up as the team with Double Fusion and NeoEdge Networks.
I really want to check out more of Google’s Lively [...]
The Blue Book: Virtual Worlds
Over the weekend The Blue Book for virtual worlds launched. The book is free to download and should be required reading for anyone wanting to get into virtual worlds. You always want to pick the best virtual world or social network that is going to fit your brand. At the same time a report released [...]
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DICE 2010: The future of gaming