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About Adam Singer / The Future Buzz

The Future Buzz is a blog about web marketing/PR strategies, spreading buzz in the blogosphere and permeating social media. Bloggers, marketers, freelance writers, small business owners and public relations people will all benefit from the content here.

Hi, I’m Adam Singer and I’m the person responsible for all the content on this site, The Future Buzz.

You’re probably here because you’d like a little background on me, this site, why you should subscribe and some of my qualifications for keeping this blog.

The purpose of this blog is to share my observations, insight and advice about social media, web culture, blogging, web marketing and related topics with you. My goals here are to help you learn about new media, web trends and help you become successful in spreading buzz online for whatever you’re doing on or off the web.

I am extremely passionate about computers, technology and anything new that connects us and allows for better communication in our world. I’ve been active on the web daily for the past 12 years and have been a heavy contributer to the internet since the early days of message boards and the start of the social web. I pretty much live and breathe the internet.

The grouping of people around information, ideas and technology has always fascinated me, and I have been an observer, participant and contributor for as long I can remember.

Notables for this blog

  • The Future Buzz currently receives more than 10,000 unique visitors per month.
  • The content at TheFutureBuzz.com has made page one of Digg, the most popular social networking news site 3 times (click here to see all my stories featured on Digg)
  • This blog is ranked among the “best search marketing blogs on the net” by TopRank’s BigList, featured in the marketing section of AllTop (all the top sites), and listed in Ad Age’s Power 150 list (where Toddand ranks the top media and marketing blogs).

Press

  • QSR Magazine has quoted me in a story on corporate blogging in the QSR (quick service restaurant) industry.
  • PR Week has quoted me in a story on the value of Twitter for Public Relations.
  • The South Florida Biz Journal has quoted me in a story on strategies to boost your brand in the digital realm.
  • My social media marketing campaigns have been featured in traditional media (here, here and here, for example) in industry trade publications and on Technorati Top 100 blogs.
  • Content from TheFutureBuzz has appeared on Reuters, The Chicago Sun Times, shared/discussed on countless other blogs, and shared across various social networks.

Day job

Currently I am Director of Digital Strategy at Pierson Grant Public Relations in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. where I develop creative internet marketing and social media campaigns, consult on web design, implement strategic SEO campaigns, interact with bloggers and help clients create buzz and make the right moves online. Here is a sample of one of my recent campaigns which was a hit.  I also have strong working relationships with many journalists, bloggers and web influencers.

Education

I graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management in 2005 with an outside concentration in marketing - but my true passion and focus has always been the internet, which I have studied, observed and participated in more than anything else.

More about me

In addition to keeping this marketing blog and being a digital strategist at a public relations and marketing agency, I also:

  • Compose electronic music.
  • Build custom computer systems from scratch for various purposes (graphic design, audio production, gaming, etc.)
  • Am passionate with anything IT, adept at networking, great with audio/video setups and at home with pretty much all technology
  • Am a fan and independent student of sociology, psychology and philosophy and read countless books, studies and blogs about these subjects in my free time
  • Have personally contributed well over 10,000 threads, replies and posts to blogs, discussion boards, wikis and social networks across the web
  • Have been online daily for the past 12 years, doing IT work the past 10 years, a published writer / blogger for the past 4 years, and a marketing and public relations professional the past 3 years.

Other fun facts:

  • My picture is in Seth Godin’s latest book, Tribes.
  • I read close to 300 blogs each week.
  • I used to DJ in college and have played opening sets for some big name, global electronic music artists such as James Zabiela, Oscar G and Boyd Westerman.
  • My best time for running 3 miles was 17 minutes, 45 seconds.

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Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or just to say hi.