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John Brian McCarthy

John Brian McCarthy has been at Beaconfire since February 2007. As a client manager, he works primarily on projects for our Online Campaigns and Marketing service line, including The National Parks Conservation Association, AFSCME and Heifer International. Before coming to Beaconfire, John Brian worked as Internet Director for Senator Russ Feingold's political action committee. His topics of interest include social networking (particularly Facebook), marketing, SMS, and generally cool technology. John Brian originally hails from Milwaukee, WI, where yes, since you asked, people do enjoy cheese.

Posts by John Brian (67)

• Viral video in the silly season
• The ethics of blogging for $
• How "Obama in 30 Seconds" became 8 hours long
• Truth in AdWordtizing
• Great update or the greatest update?
• Facebook: the new Calvinball
• Spam 2.0
• Beaconfire culture featured in Washington Post
• WWYDO?
• The long form
• Vote in NetSquared’s Mashup Challange
• Is Facebook challenging LinkedIn for business networking?
• SxSW Wrapup
• SxSW Travelogue - Day 4
• SxSW Travelogue - Day 3
• SxSW Travelogue - Day 2
• SxSW Travelogue - Day 1
• SxSW Travelogue - Day 0
• Identity or Affinity?
• Feel Free
• Facebook gets out the vote
• Searching for ad lessons from the campaigns
• Fan of a fan
• Domain name tasting goes sour
• Did Facebook’s Politics app forget to add social to their network?
• Blog faster! 5 ways to make improve your publishing volume
• “Causes” challenge causes cascade of contributions
• Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
• Email for sale
• Domain name insider trading: no longer a rumor
• Saturation Day
• Boot up and be counted
• A standard by any other name
• That’s what fans are for
• Taming the Last Unindexed Frontier
• Wikipedia: the next research frontier
• Did Facebook become your new Big Brother or a democracy?
• Microtargeting with Facebook Social Ads
• The Ethics of AdBlock
• Mailed out
• Give A Better Present this year with Beaconfire clients
• Whose WHOIS is it, anyway?
• Wide open spaces
• Alt Text: Your second subject line
• Google AdWorthy?
• Redesigning rebranding
• Test yourself on Facebook
• 1,000,000 Strong for Facebook Groups
• If the Times can’t sell it…
• Is your SMS approved by The Network?
• Facebook needs to shear the fluff
• Netscape wants its gatekeepers back
• To pay by phone, push “G”
• Facebook shuffles the deck
• Viral Ethics
• Print from your phone? Not really… yet
• Picture this
• Could Kittens be the Future of CAPTCHA?
• Suffering from Social Network Withdrawal
• A Tale of Three NPO Facebook Apps
• Feedburner becomes even free-er
• txt ur way 2 the wht house
• President Simpson?
• The little browser that could (or not?)
• Facebook Causes 2.0 - a non-profit wish list
• Facebook Causes and Effects
• Writing Tools: Just Add Inspiration