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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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Skittles Scandal: Tracking the Skittles Experiment [Friday March 20th]
With the exception of the new Transplant the Rainbow video receiving some great numbers this week. The overall campaign for Skittles is starting to drop even faster then last week.
YouTube (views)
Transplant the Rainbow: 10,615
Skittles – Tailor: 5,766 Views
Skittles – Sour Man: 4,607 Views
Skittles – Pinata Man: 4,285 Views
Since the new video, Transplant the Rainbow, was [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Also tagged Flickr, Skittles, Skittles.com, Twitter, YouTube 5 Comments
Skittles Scandal: Tracking the Skittles Experiment [Friday March 6th]
A few days ago I called the skittles experiment a success from the generating of buzz/press. I won’t pretend that this week is going to increase their sales, it might but that’s a long term effect of this past week more then anything else.
However, I wanted to see if my take on the situation was [...]
Posted in Social Media Also tagged Community, Flickr, Skittles, Skittles.com, Twitter, YouTube 3 Comments
Skittles + Social Media = New Power Couple
For the last 24 hours all anyone could talk about, good or bad, was the new Skittles site launch. If you head over to the Twitter search page, you can track what everyone is saying in real time. The topic is so hot tonight that it’s on the main page for daily trend results:
Posted in Social Media Also tagged Critical Mass, Organic, Skittles, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube 5 Comments
Finding a Social Media Job On Twitter
Dear Social Media Expert/Strategist/Consultant
I’m writing you this letter today because of your latest tweet. I’ve seen this written a few times and I find it ironic that you and so many people said the following on Twitter:
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.
Posted in Online Worlds, Social Media Also tagged Critical Mass, David Armano, Google’s local business center, Touch Points, Twitter 1 Comment
Happy New Year & Best Posts from 2008
Happy New Years to everyone on Twitter and who read my bog. It has been a crazy journey and I can’t believe we are already a couple hours into the 2009. Here are some of the best posts of 2008:
Tipster Thursdays: How To Use Twitter In 5 Unique Ways
How Mainstream is Second Life Really?
Posted in General Also tagged "Virtual Worlds", Age of conversation, Age of conversation 2, AoC, Bricbox, Marketing, Qik, Second Life, Twitter Leave a comment
Facebook: Video Game Social Ads [Online Advertising Project]
I’m decide today to start a new little project to collect pics of some of the gaming ads on Facebook. I’ve always loved the collections you see online for beer, holiday menus, icon sets and even Bettie Page. You can check out the new set here on Flickr. Of course I’ll be sharing this on [...]
Posted in Advertising, Social Media Also tagged Flickr, gaming, Online Advertising Project, Social Ads, Twitter, Video game Leave a comment
Facebook Advertising: Social Ad for LittleBIGPlanet
http://bit.ly/2PjYgw . Future Shop left some opportunity on the table.
The Prototype Experience using Facebook Connect