Chris Abraham
Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham
Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.
Offerings: We specialize in comprehensive Online Conversation Marketing campaigns. We integrate Online Publicity, Online Grassroots & New Media Marketing, Business Intelligence, Search Engine Services and Online Reputation Clean-up and Defense to ensure that our client’s message, the right message, is being portrayed in every corner of the digital space.
Speaking & press availability: Chris has taught blogging courses for the Writer's Center of Bethesda, has been a guest lecturer on public affairs blogging at Columbia University's SIPA school and the American University in Washington, DC, the Emergent Technologies Advisor to the Urban Institute's Communications Advisory Board, and a Renaissance Weekend participant since 2001. Additionally, he is the go-to expert on social media, citizen journalism, technology, and the Internet for BBC World Service, CNN Radio, and CNet's BNet.
Clients, past and present, include Kimberly Clark, The Daily, Habitat for Humanity, Greenpeace, The Fresh Air Fund, International Medical Corps, Sharp, Pew, Alzheimer’s Association, and others. Chris has also worked on the Interactive Team at Edelman Public Affairs in Washington, DC, consulting with clients such as Wal-Mart, Shell, and GE on blogger and social media strategy. Before Edelman, Chris was technology strategist for New Media Strategies, a pioneer in online brand promotion and protection with clients including Sci-Fi Channel, Buena Vista, TomTom, Paramount Pictures, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Disney, Reebok, EA, RCA and NBC.
Brand reputation, online business intelligence, corporate and PR blogging, online brand intelligence, online brand promotion and protection, online buzz and relationship marketing, online education, online messaging, online social networks, online technology strategy, rss syndication strategy, search engine optimization strategy, virtual community building
Washington, D.C.
Email: cabraham@gmail.com
- Can you build an audience while maintaining intimacy?
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- In praise of social media perseverence
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- When a crisis hits, how graceful is your response?
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- 4 rules for successful guerrilla social media marketing
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- Marketers still need to learn some basic HTML
- Why you should cross-post by hand
- SocialOomph offers essential Twitter tools
- Online communities are discovered, not made
- Listen & engage to build a trusted community
- How to go from student to master of your domain
- Add blogging to your to-do list this year
- 11 ideas for taking your digital marketing in new directions
- Turn your website into your social media brand HQ
- Let your customers in on your secret sauce
- Build social media equity, then spend it!
- Should you farm out some of your social media chores?
- Are you using updated keywords for your business?
- How to boost your Klout score with Flipboard
- Why you should treat your client like your BFF
- Why you need to buy all your domain names now
- Win the online reputation land war
- Remove those regrettable online reputation tattoos
- Own your online reputation with help from your friends
- For online reputation, the best defense is a good offense
- How to wine, dine and marry into the Google Search Index
- How to take control of your online reputation
- Don’t mess with Texas (or reddit)
- reddit is the elephant in the room of social media marketing
- How Flipboard is changing everything
- Don’t bring your social media completely in-house
- Integrity is inherent in earned media but not paid
- Your social media plan needs to shut up and start listening
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- Have you embraced Pinterest for your brand?
- Are you sold on frictionless sharing?
- How to prune your Twitter following
- Keep blogging even after you fracking hate it
- Don’t roll your eyes at social media influencers
- Be a persistent social media parent
- Why you, too, should be social media slutty
- Don’t fall in love with the shiny toy of the day
- Why can’t I share to Google+ from my apps?
- Your followers care about you, but do you care?
- Why Pinterest is changing how we communicate online
- Extended how to use Google+ for business video tutorial
- You don’t need to outrun the bear in social media
- How to get over social media writer’s block
- The quantum method of reaching out to bloggers
- How one author won over the gun buff message boards
- Round two for forums and message boards?
- Taste everything well before serving up your social media offerings
- Can PR leave behind magical thinking for science?
- The anachronistic social media isolationist
- Being pretty isn’t enough for social media success
- The Long Tail strategy for AdWords works for blogger outreach
- Become a big fish by starting in a smaller pond
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- Social media success demands talent above technology
- The Social Media News Release explained in detail
- Detailed analysis of the perfect blogger pitch
- Amplify your good message with GaggleAmp
- Set up your Google+ brand page the right way
- Free Social Media for Financial Services Webinar
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- Inbound marketing the way nature intended
- Real bloggers and real blogs always trump Robot Armies
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- How to pitch bloggers so they’ll post about you
- Either take your time commenting on blogs or get spamboxed
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- Twitter success demands both top influencers and everyone else
- Build Twitter followers using the theory of everyone
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- The big secret to getting people to read your blog
- How to add value through your blog
- Fire for effect when you can’t get a bead
- The synergy between social media and search
- How to become a super-node in the attention era
- You’re buying video games for yourself
- Google wants me to put Google +1 buttons on my blogs
- B2B social media marketing is essential
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- Simple language isn’t for bird brains
- Taking 50 million as seriously as one WSJ reporter
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- Easily turn your blog into an ebook
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- Under the Second Life microscope
- How to make news in the digital era
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- The new Second Life reinvents itself
- The Social Media Marketing Handbook
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- Chris Anderson live in DC at the GrowSmartBiz
- ‘Twitter for Dummies’: Twitter for everyone
- ‘All a Twitter’ is Twitter for smarties
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- Online communities are most authentic
- The Facebook Era is for business
- I upgraded to HootSuite 2.0 because it works
- Go to Bad Pitch Night School
- Is Scitable a game-changing model for publishing?
- Some ‘Twitter definitions’ are sponsored
- People with passion fuel social media
- Innovate ceaselessly, shamelessly, like Facebook
- Twitter, Facebook Just ‘Virtual Ballrooms’
- Fart jokes and the new rules of advertising
- Don’t be fooled by next-gen comment spam
- Twitter’s hype is different than Second Life’s
- A step-by-step video walk through of SM2
- How to blog on WordPress.com video tutorial
- Sysomos MAP is alien technology
- Free social media marketing Webinar
- Twitter revenue from in-email advertising
- Twitter for business Webinar video and slides
- Real social media metrics from SM2
- What does a $5 blog post look like?
- Free ‘Twitter for Business’ Webinar on April 30
- Twitter failing from overwhelming success
- Stars don’t need to follow-back on Twitter
- Free to follow (or not) on Twitter
- Business needs more social media experts
- Sage advice to the future of PR
- An interview with Martin Oetting of Germany’s trnd
- Does McKinsey indicate a social media tipping point?
- Is email marketing still relevant in a 2.0 world?
- New book: ‘Social Network Business Plan’
