Overnight Success on Reddit, 10 Years in the Making

Posted by Pek in Saturday, October 24th 2009 under: Business, Life Tags: mortakombat, socialmedia

On Thursday evening, my pals Sachin and Brad alerted me to a new section on Reddit. It’s called IamA as in “I am a…”. Basically you submit a post telling your special story and people just ask you anything. They strongly recommended that I go on there and post. They were sure I was going [...]

Using Twitter to Promote an Event Last Minute + Results

Posted by Pek in Tuesday, July 21st 2009 under: Business, Labs, Technology Tags: marketing, socialmedia, twitter

This evening I gave a talk for the Chicago Interactive Designers and Developers Meetup. I’ve been so busy lately that I did not think to promote it well in advance. As a result I didn’t get the word out about it until late in the afternoon today.
With tools like Twitter search and bit.ly, [...]

Blast Your Links To All Your Social Networking Sites in 1 Second

Posted by Pek in Tuesday, March 31st 2009 under: Business, Technology Tags: socialmedia

There are so many social networking sites right now that I can’t even keep track of them all. Not only that, but they all have adopted the status feature which lets you post a short message. Twitter’s whole service offering is just the status update. This is a great marketing tool that you can leverage [...]

Samsung Gets Social Media

Posted by Pek in Sunday, March 22nd 2009 under: Business Tags: advertising, brand, socialmedia, video, youtube

I just recently stumbled on this video on youtube. This video probably would never have been made 5 years ago. It’s got a very low budget homemade feel. It’s candid in its admission that Samsung hired them to showcase how awesome SSDs (solid state drive) are. But looking at the number of views (1.5M+) on [...]

Chris Brogan Thinks I’m a Rockstar

Posted by Pek in Wednesday, November 26th 2008 under: Technology Tags: marketing, socialmedia

Marketing and Social Media guru Chris Brogan lists me as a Rockstar. Rather, I shamelessly promoted myself on his blog in his Rockstars section. You can submit your own name and blog into his list, but it’s at his sole discretion whether or not you appear on the list. I suspect my