SEO Firms Must Become Digital Media Agencies
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
by Paul O'Brien
One of these days, Marketers are going to learn. It will be a new dawn for marketing! A shining era in which everyone recognizes how interwoven search is with everything a business does. Until then, we’ll continue to plod along… Joe Devine, CEO of The Search Engine Guys in Austin, Texas knows this all too
- Published in Advertising, Search, Social Media
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Want to learn Twitter? Silicon Valley Tweet Up – July 23
Friday, 03 July 2009
by Paul O'Brien
Simply, a tweetup is an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person… to twitter (okay, so I added that last part but its true! Bring your iPhone and TweetDeck!). Take a few hours off and come connect with online friends; put a face to the name (er… Twitter profile) over more
- Published in Brand Marketing, Conferences / Events, Fun, Social Media
Increasing your Twitter Followers – Comment here
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
by Paul O'Brien
Though only in beta, FIDDYP’s word press plugin WP-Twitip-ID is a brilliantly simple innovation enabling blogs to add Twitter profiles to users’ comments. The commenting systems on blog platforms are entirely limited, at this point, to the promotion of a reader’s website, limiting engagement by way of this dynamic communication platform. Twitip adds a Twitter
- Published in Social Media
Easier way to love Twitter and Facebook
Thursday, 18 December 2008
by Paul O'Brien
…. If you are anything like me, you have dozens or hundreds of active bloggers that you like to follow. Combined with friends and family, coworkers, and witty peers, you can quickly find yourself under a mountain of updates, pokes, and tweets. Worse case, you become overwhelmed and abandon the platforms entirely. Dozens of twitter
- Published in Social Media
Do you Send your Traffic Away?
Friday, 07 November 2008
by Paul O'Brien
An interesting question was recently asked of me, “do you have a Facebook group for you business and do you send people from your site to the Facebook group?” Personally, Facebook is fantastic for creating a community, separate from your site and brand. In much the same way that there is, perhaps, no better recruiting
- Published in Insights / Research, Social Media
Kickstart social networking with Ya-huh?
Tuesday, 06 November 2007
by Paul O'Brien
An odd choice for the name of Yahoo’s next social network. Certainly, I applaud Yahoo’s effort as the internet brand which years ago should have defined social networking by simply adding connectivity between its users. Today they launch Kickstart, a clear shot at the origin of Facebook, targeting college students and alumni. If ever there
- Published in Social Media
Digg Hostile Takeover
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0