Clay Shirky Says The Revolution Is Now Here.
August 19, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungYou can typically judge the motivation of conference attendees through several factors – one of them being the keynote and how good it resonated with the audience. It’s quite odd how these keynotes no longer are in the afternoon, but rather bright and early in the morning. This really throws me off and causes me [...]
I Was Searching For Something & Wound Up At SES 2009.
August 17, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungOnce again another convention rocks the San Francisco Bay Area. And what you may suspect may be an ongoing rant about what I’ve learned relating to social media, it’s not going to happen…well maybe.
The 2009 edition of the Search Engine Strategies conference came into town with a roar as hundreds, if not thousands, visited the [...]
Searching for Network Solutions at SES
August 13, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungAs part of my journey exploring this wonderful World Wide Web, I happen to come across the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose. Previous events that I had been to centered around social media so it was a bit refreshing to listen in on something focused on search marketing. My synopsis of the [...]
Helping Startups Understand Promotion & Survival Using Social Media
August 11, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungThis week I attended an event in Palo Alto in the old Facebook headquarters building. It wasn’t your typical event, but it was definitely a good one. Organized by the fbFund, this event featured several great thought leaders in the realm of social media and startups, including renowned author of The Facebook Era Clara Shih, [...]
Twiistup 6: The Right Way To Do A Conference. But Was It A Good One?
August 10, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungI must say that last Wednesday was a day of firsts for me. Why would I say such a thing? It’s because it was the first time I drove down to Los Angeles by myself from San Francisco (yes, I don’t get out much). It was the first time I stayed and visited Universal Studios. [...]
Successful Business Results From Finding A Trust Agent.
August 1, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungI’ve heard the philosophy behind what Chris Brogan and Julien Smith write about in their new book Trust Agents at least twice – one after reading the book and the second time at the most recent edition of Gnomedex in Seattle. If you don’t know what a Trust Agent is, it’s a person within a [...]
Twitter Gets Serious About Helping Businesses Understand.
July 28, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungSo it seems that Twitter is getting hip to what’s going on with businesses and realizes that there are a lot of brands wanting to know how to take advantage of this microblogging application. To help businesses out, the great folks at Twitter have put together a “How To” website that gives a beginner’s tutorial [...]
Discovering New Talent Through Social Media.
July 27, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungThe past few months have seen an increase in brands using social media to find new talent to help promote their product. Some of these include Rocketboom, Murphy-Goode and perhaps most notable Best Buy. Some have been a total success and some have…well…probably been less than that. However, these campaigns have gone to show that [...]
Understanding URL Shorteners & Why Digg’s Latest Move Hurts You
July 21, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungA long time ago, when we used to pass along website addresses to friends, colleagues or to total strangers, there was an issue about creating memorable domains that would make it easier for people to remember and reduce to strain on trying to type a really long address. Enter the phenomenon known as the URL [...]
Another PR Nightmare? At Least We Get A Nice Tune This Time.
July 17, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungSo yet another big brand name has fallen afoul of the social media powers-that-be.
Last spring, Dave Carroll and his band, The Sons of Maxwell were traveling on tour and were going to Nebraska from Halifax. After what was supposed to be a simple layover, he had looked out the window and saw that his guitar [...]
