Ok, firstly let’s clear this up, I’m not a spammer, and I’m not a professional marketer who’s going to sell you anything or ask you to do anything besides read the few interesting words that I manage to type here.

In fact I’m just someone who stumbled across the social media scene and managed to get good at creating and building my online presence.

Now some of you know me as Ben, upick on digg or upicks on twitter if you don’t know me than I welcome you to add me or contact me when you see fit.

GTalk: upick3 at gmail dot com
Digg: http://digg.com/users/upick
Twitter: http://twitter.com/upicks

So Who Am I & What Do I Do?

In a nut shell, my main line of work is web development with the occasional website design. I also specialize in pay per click marketing and search engine optimization. I do the occasional speaking gigs at internet seminars like UYMG and GIS. And in my spare time I’m digging it up.

Why Am I Blogging?

After much thought I decided to give it ago, I mean how hard can writing a few words here and there be? It’s actually a lot easier than I thought plus I have someone help me set the whole site up!
The main reason to why I’m blogging is to share my thoughts and experience on social media and hopefully educate or teach a few people what I’ve learned.

I would like to make this blog dedicated to help people with social media related topics. I’m also going to be taking request meaning if you got something interesting send it my way and I’ll take a look at it… and if its cool, I’ll tweet it, digg it, stumble it, the whole 9 yards. More about this in another post.

Am I A Social Media Expert?

I don’t claim to be an expert, but an addict. Sure I know a few things about digg and twitter, that’s why I’m writing this blog to share my knowledge and yes it’s for free so bookmark and subscribe to my RSS feed. Who knows maybe one day I will be a professional and speak at SMX or any other industry seminars, but for now this is just my hobby.

I’m Open To Your Thoughts & Content

I would like your help if you are interested in contributing to this blog with content that can benefit users and is around social media topics, than email me right now. Your contributions will be credited and I’ll personally add you to the author’s page where I’ll be listing everyone that contributed here along with links.

That’s All Folks

I want to personally thank Noura Yehina for helping me create and put this blog together and Reg Saddler (Zaibatsu) for getting me start on digg. He might not remember the story or how it happened so I’ll be posting my story soon. My name is Benjamin Teo and thanks for reading my first post =).

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