Tag Archives: SocialMedia

Tipster Thursdays: Add Facebook Pages to Your Marketing Plan

By Duane Brown | Published: May 1, 2008
Tipster Thursdays is a monthly feature covering technology and how you can incorporate it as part of your marketing plan. We’re going to look at different pieces of technology like Twitter, Pingie, Prologue, SmugMug, Qik and delicious and show you 5 different uses for the technology. This weeks column is going to look at Facebook [...]
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Tipster Thursdays: How To Use Twitter In 5 Unique Ways

By Duane Brown | Published: January 10, 2008
Tipster Thursdays is a monthly feature covering technology and how you can incorporate it as part of your marketing plan. We’re going to look at different pieces of technology like Twitter, Pingie, Wiki, SmugMug, Facebook and delicious and show you 5 different and unusual uses for the technology. This weeks column is going to look [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 6

By Duane Brown | Published: August 22, 2007
Sorry this is a little later then I thought it would be. As I wrap up this feature series and look back on what I’ve learned, conceived and come to the conclusion on,.. it’s pretty interesting. It’s also helped me take more initiative at my day job where I work with such a forward thinking [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 5

By Duane Brown | Published: August 15, 2007
Kongregate may have what it takes to becoming the social gaming platform of choice on Facebook. I started playing around with the Kongregate and love the variety of games that they have featured. Check out this cool video of the founders of Kongregate. To have a killer gaming app, regardless of platform, you need to [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 4

By Duane Brown | Published: August 10, 2007
Money makes the world go round or so the saying goes. The only thing that can have as much value as money is information and Facebook has that. So now it’s starting to go after the money. Facebook has had advertisings on the site in the past as a way to break even and make [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 3

By Duane Brown | Published: August 7, 2007
Last week we looked at the community aspect of Facebook and how it’s vital to any startup. This week I wanted to look at the infrastructure and money aspect of Facebook. The money part is particularly interesting as they unveiled their rate card last week. However, at the same time some advertisers have withdrawn their [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 2

By Duane Brown | Published: August 1, 2007
A few nights ago we started this series off with a high overview of what this feature will entail. Now we get to jump in the deep end of the pool and get started. A key part of the internet that is becoming more relevant with each passing year and website is community. A smart [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 1

By Duane Brown | Published: July 30, 2007
I hinted at this a few weeks ago. GigaOM Online put up an article about it yesterday (to a degree) and now it seems like the stars are aligning. I look at Facebook and see the next social gaming platform, especially with the opening up of their developer API just over two months ago. As [...]
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Canada’s Word of Mouth – From Mass to Grass Conference

By Duane Brown | Published: February 11, 2007
Sean Moffitt over at Buzz Canuck is helping co-chair the Canadian Marketing Association’s first annual conference dedicated to Word of Mouth called “From Mass to Grass”. Some of the topics at the event are the following: Consumer Generated Content Social Media, Networks & Virtual Communities Grassroots Community Building It looks like it’s going to be a day packed full [...]
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Netvibes + Technorati + PR = New Social Media Tool

By Duane Brown | Published: December 14, 2006
I was thinking today that with all the sites I subscribe to in my RSS feed and how there are almost to many to track for any one client. There must be an easier way. Netvibes is a great personal page creation tool. You can use it to keep track of anything (call it the [...]
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