Bloggasm

Simon Owens is a 26-year-old social media consultant and online journalist. Simon formerly wrote for newspapers before a year-long stint as an associate editor for PBS’ MediaShift. He currently lives in the Washington, DC area. Over the years, Simon has secured hundreds of placements on top blogs and social news sites for clients. He has conducted digital PR for both major and small brands and has driven millions of page views for clients, getting them on the front pages of Technorati Top 100 blogs and major social news sites like Digg and Reddit.

Simon has been interviewed by reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, Forbes, ABC News, Connecticut Public Radio, The Hartford Courant, The Baltimore Sun, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Houston Chronicle and a number of television and radio programs about his expertise in new media.

His blog, Bloggasm, was launched in late 2005 and focuses on the intersection of new and old media. It often includes in-depth feature articles on a variety of media subjects. The site was named in 2008 as one of PC Magazine’s favorite blogs. In that same year it was also nominated for a Weblog Award in the “best large blogs” category. Simon was named the second best Twitter user in DC in 2009 in Washington City Paper’s “Best of” issue.

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Simon has worked several years both writing for the media and in digital PR. He consults with clients about online brand intelligence and marketing, and he writes regularly for several news outlets. If you would like him to write and/or blog for you, or if you’re interested in hearing about his online PR and consulting services, contact him via the contact page.

Why your company, political group or media organization should hire me

Let me give you an example of what I can do. Back in May a film company approached me because they were trying to push out a YouTube video that was highlighting what they perceived as unfair labor practices from a well known brand. I wrote up a short post about the campaign and then that night spent about two hours pushing it out to a number of bloggers and social media users that worked within niches that I thought would be receptive to the content. One of the talents I have is using analytic search tools to identify specific micro niches of influential bloggers that are most likely to write about the content I’m pushing.

By the time I woke up the next morning, the post in which I had written about the campaign was getting over 1,000 views an hour. It was linked to by some of the most popular sites on the web (at least one of which receives over a million visitors a day) and several large marketing blogs. Several dozen smaller blogs wrote about it and links to the content were tweeted by several hundred Twitter users. It also gained strong traction in Stumbleupon and the post received nearly 500 hits an hour just from that site alone.

When all was said and done, the story had been placed before thousands of people, many of whom took the time to take that content and push it out to even more people. And all this was done because of two hours of work — I knew the exact bloggers and online journalists to seed the story to, and once they had it it was just a matter of watching the flames spread.

Drop me a line if you’d like to talk strategy for your content or brand.