Category Archives: Social Media

Multiple Accounts in TweetDecK: Retweet or Mirror Your Posts

By Duane Brown | Published: July 2, 2009
On Monday I got called out for mirroring a post on my personal account (@DuaneBrown) to my agency account (@CreativeHQ) by @malcolmbastien. He felt it wasn’t very creative of me. You can see my response here. This got me thinking all week. If I had simple retweeted my post, instead of mirroring something I felt [...]
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Social Media Case Studies: 30+ to Review

By Duane Brown | Published: June 29, 2009
The Engaging Social Media blog has a entensive list coving off social media case studies from around the globe and across industries like non-profit to entertainment and from government to start-ups. The list covers companies such as: Sony Ericsson, Addidas, and Olympus America Freshbooks PushingBack.com Fairmont Chicago Check out the list and this is something we should all be bookmarking [...]
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Social Gaming Summit: Notes, Metrics and Data

By Duane Brown | Published: June 23, 2009
I didn’t get the chance to attend the Social Gaming Summit down in San Franscico today. I wanted to point to a couple sites that covered the event. Anyone into social gaming or using the idea of video games as a way to connect with your audience will enjoy the posts and slides. There are [...]
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A comparison of social media tools

By Duane Brown | Published: June 15, 2009
A few people having been wanting to see a deep comparison of the social media tools out after my post last week about Paid Social Media Monitoring and Measurement Tools: The (almost) Complete Guide. There are a few books out there trying to do just that. Both of the options that I’ve come across are [...]
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Paid Social Media Monitoring and Measurement Tools: The (almost) Complete Guide

By Duane Brown | Published: June 11, 2009
My goal is to help put together a complete list of social media monitoring/listening tools out there on the market. We all know about Radian6 and Sysomos or even Rapleaf. But what about Infegy or even the new product from the team at Scout Labs. I’ve been looking for a great list the last few [...]
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The Prototype Experience using Facebook Connect

By Duane Brown | Published: June 10, 2009
The guys and gals over at Activision and Radical Entertainment have been working hard on Prototype and promoting it has E3 last week. I finally got around to checking out the website today and it’s using Facebook connect in a very unique way. Back story on the game: You are the PROTOTYPE, Alex Mercer, hiding in [...]
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Tim Stock’s What GTA Can Teach Us About Connecting with Consumers

By Duane Brown | Published: June 3, 2009
Dave over at hard knock life pointed me to a great presentation from the Forward ‘09: Brandologie conference in Portland. The presentation was done by Tim Stock from Scenario DNA and he talked about: What GTA Can Teach Us About Connecting with Consumers View more Microsoft Word documents from Tim Stock. What connected his whole presentation was his [...]
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Skittles Scandal: Final Results [Sunday April 12th]

By Duane Brown | Published: April 12, 2009
Last month we had the Skittles experiment launch (Part 1, 2, 3, 4) around the world and everyone and their grandma had something to say about it. After tracking the campaign for the month of March and letting it develop for a couple more weeks, I want to dig deep a bit and look at [...]
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