A Conversation with Sean Parker

Oct 19 2011 Published by Tyron Bache under Business, Social Media, Video

A very insightful half an hour interview with Sean Parker, talking about Spotify, Facebook and not talking about Airtime at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011.

“Online, the best content floats to the top… because we want to look good to our friends.”

~ Sean Parker (paraphrased)

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via Tyler Reed

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Greenpop

Oct 25 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Business, Video

I found these guys via a tweet from Jason Bagley, “Spotted some reverse graffiti on Kloof street” and thought it was awesome advertising!

Greenpop described: “Get involved and join the Greenpop treevolution by helping us plant trees. So far we’ve planted more than 1000 trees in under-greened schools around Cape Town, and we’re continuing. We also want to focus on environmental education and community upliftment through social interaction, beau-tree-fication and working closely with schools and community.”

Visit http://greenpop.org/
Find them on facebook or follow them on twitter.

Have you done anything remarkable lately?

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Rankwoord

Jun 04 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Music, Video

Probably the best video I have seen all week.

twitter – purevolume – facebook

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The Ranks – Come play…

Apr 08 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Music, Video

The Ranks – officially the 2nd best band in the world – made another blog post, I’m proud of these boys!

Go check out there myspace page for their latest single 1964, you won’t be disappointed! Follow them on twitter or you can facebook them.

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Best place to find new music

Mar 17 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Music

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I love music and listen everyday but like most people I guess I get bored too quickly so I am in a constant search for new tunes to pump into my eardrums.

Right so the best place to find new music… the internet. I could end the post here but then I wouldn’t be letting you in on all the sites I just love. Right it’s time for a list:

  • Myspace – Ok so if you haven’t heard about myspace don’t bother reading any more of this list go and explore myspace now. It is just full of bands that are just waiting to be heard, I challenge you to search myspace for any band you can think of, they will have a profile and a couple of songs to listen to, here’s one of my favourites: New Altum
  • Facebook – Also full of pages and groups of bands waiting to be joined, here’s one of my favourites: The Ranks
  • Purevolume – Specially for music, this site also has great charts with free downloads, here’s one of my favourites: The Almost
  • Thesixtyone – A music adventure – go explore – you have never seen a site like this one! here’s one of my favourites: WWPJ

That should keep you busy for a while, if you find a cool band let me know just as long as it isn’t pop music I will give it a listen.

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How to create something worth sharing

Mar 02 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Social Media, Web Development

Some points to think about before you create some new content:

  • Remarkable: firstly don’t even think about sharing anything that isn’t remarkable, these days people get bored to easily so your content needs to be something worth making a remark about.
  • Specific: secondly it needs to be specific and focused on a main point, if not your audience might get confused as to what exactly they are sharing and therefore won’t do it.
  • Brief: thirdly we live in a 5 minute world, if something takes more than 5 minutes then you have lost your audience other than a really good movie of course.
  • Community: fourthly how can you expect anything to be shared if there is no one to share it with, it’s as simple as that, as Seth Godin says you need a tribe and there is one waiting for you to lead them, if you can’t find them you aren’t looking hard enough.
  • Tools: fifthly give your auidence the tools to be able to share your content, this should go with out saying but this is where you can rely on twitter and facebook.

Below is the first blog post of one of my favourite bands, The Ranks, watch it and tell me why do you think I am sharing it with you? (P.S. it’s only 54 seconds long.)



Check out this cool post on how to embed facebook video into a WordPress Blog without Plugin here.

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facebook, a page

Feb 27 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Social Media

Last night I created a facebook box that links through to my facebook page for this blog and have already I have a few fans (thanks to everyone who has joined so far – and special thanks to Mike for being my first fan) you can find it in my side bar at the bottom for the moment.

If you would like to know everything about facebook fan boxes you can check out this awesome link from the facebook developers site.

If you own a business or have a brand I strongly recommend starting a facebook page to promote it, not only is it a creative way to connect and engage with your customers – it can be measured, the statistics are awesome! They call them insights and they show you numbers on interactions, likes, comments and interactions.

Below I have embed my fan box, which is another plus, you can put it where ever you want, your blog or website.

tyronbache.com on Facebook

So my challenge to those of you who have a brand and haven’t set up a page for it – go do it now and I will join it. What do you have to lose?

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Follow me! I have no idea where I am going.

Feb 21 2010 Published by Tyron Bache under Social Media

Right so you’re asking where to go after a title like that?
Well if you don’t know I am a twitter fan.

I love twitter for the following reason:

  • Connecting and engaging: I don’t think there is any technology that will let you connect and engage with so many people so easily. Yes facebook can but in a different way and I will save that for another day.

One thing I don’t like about twitter is the spam and people who decide to follow everyone and who don’t take the time to engage with the people following them, it looks like they’re just in it for the numbers and to blast out rubbish, twitter becomes useless then and yes the slogan is:

“Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.”

There is no better way to spread some news virally, just go look at the trending topics if you don’t know what I am talking about.

So no I am not going not follow you just because you followed me, especially if you’re tweets are meaningless and from a feed that pops out “news/marketing material”.

I will however follow you if you engage and connect with your followers, if you’re listening and are tweeting stuff worth retweeting and of course interesting to me because guess what I am the most important person on twitter, aren’t we all? Oh and by the way it does look bad even if your tweets are interesting if you have 100 or less followers and you’re following a few thousand.. the word desperate comes to mind #justsaying.

If you want you can follow me but I won’t guarantee I will follow you back and I hope you respect that.

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