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Creating Content that Impacts

Thursday, 11 July 2019 by Paul O'Brien

There are a few technical skills involved in publishing an article online and then driving engagement and enthusiasm with it. Far too often, I hear from business owners, artists, or entrepreneurs, who “tried blogging” or did “some” podcasting and all but gave up because they didn’t get the results they expected. Come on folks,

Published in Search, Social Media

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How Top Startup CEOs and VCs Find Time to Tweet so Much

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 by Paul O'Brien

I was peppered with this question six ways to Sunday recently and honestly, I couldn’t help but wonder if the public attention on Trump and Elon Musk’s tweets, haven’t had something to do with everyone asking how (or really why) these people in presumably busy and important roles, manage the time to bother tweeting. In

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Published in Social Media, Startups

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The Social Intelligence Industry is in Austin

Wednesday, 19 February 2014 by Paul O'Brien

A short time ago, I started exploring the significance of industry on an economy; the role that it plays in creating awareness of, drawing talent to, engaging capital on behalf of, and focusing a community around, innovation and entrepreneurship. If you’ve read here before, you know I’m something of a Druckerist, a student of Peter

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Published in eCommerce, Industry, Startups

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Austin is eCommerce

Wednesday, 15 January 2014 by Paul O'Brien

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that 3 of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub * WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine * eCommerce, as Volusion wraps up $35M with Silicon Valley Bank Though, I’m glad

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Published in Austin, eCommerce, Industry, Startups

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The Plea for the Press to Evolve

Monday, 25 February 2013 by Paul O'Brien

With a couple years in Austin, TX, and a former 12 in Silicon Valley, I’ve had an exceptional experience working with distinctly different entrepreneurial communities. Each has a little bit of a grass is greener complex going on – Silicon Valley sees Austin as hip, less expensive, up and coming, entrepreneurial more than “startup,” but

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Published in Industry, Local, Social Media, Startups

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Want to learn Twitter? Silicon Valley Tweet Up â€“ 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

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Published in Brand Marketing, Conferences / Events, Fun, Social Media

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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

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Published in Social Media

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