• About brad

    Brad is the Director of Social Media and Community Management for Empire Avenue.

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    Hello Planet!

    by  • November 5, 2010 • Uncategorized

    Today we unwrap our latest endeavour aimed directly at the huge and creative Empire Avenue community that’s sprung up outside of Empire Avenue: Planet Empire Avenue. Yes folks, a simple “Empire” wasn’t enough. We are taking over the entire Planet! What’s Planet Empire Avenue? Well, remember the old-school game resource sites like Planet Baldur’s Gate [...]

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    Impressive!!

    by  • October 15, 2010 • Uncategorized

    And it’s done. The first Find the Avenue Achievement has been awarded to (e)THAT for being the first to submit photos (with supporting documentation) that include their (e)TICKER at 5 different real-world Empire Avenue locations. Now, since there was a FUBAR on our part that showed two versions of the contest rules (one rather ambiguous),  [...]

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    Community you say. Sink me, that’s interesting!

    by  • September 13, 2010 • Uncategorized

    Ok, Erindale is in the bag, new connection options are now available, the markets are settling down, and you’re thinking to yourself; ‘Self, maybe I should start checking out some of the other aspects of this Empire Avenue thingie’. You’ve got a blog, maybe tweet a lot, have finally hooked up your flickr account and [...]

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    Translation: Something to get lost in?

    by  • September 2, 2010 • Uncategorized

    You may have noticed over the course of the Empire Avenue beta that Influencers originate from many different parts of the world. Sadly, we’ve only been able to offer the site in English. That’s about to change. As some of you may be aware, we’ve taken some small steps this past week to test our [...]

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    Polite conversation

    by  • August 3, 2010 • Uncategorized

    Community – Traditionally a “community” has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location. The word is often used to refer to a group that is organized around common values and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household. – [...]

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    Avenue Talk: Under the hood – Nithum Thain

    by  • July 29, 2010 • podcast, Uncategorized

    Well then. A lot has happened since the last Empire Avenue Avenue Talk podcast. Most notably the fact that we’ve pretty much paved the Road to Dublin with every cliché in the book! That aside, we’ve been busy, and have not been able to get the next one out the door, until now. In this [...]

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    Avenue Talk: Behind the Curtain – Tom Ohle

    by  • July 21, 2010 • podcast, Uncategorized

    If you’ve been following @empireave on Twitter, or checking out the facebook page, then you’ve likely read the scribblings of our resident scribe Tom Ohle – VP of Marketing and Media Relations. He also has an unusually large right thumb, which comes in handy when there’re dikes that need plugging…but I digress. This is the [...]

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    The Big Reset Cometh!

    by  • April 19, 2010 • Uncategorized

    Update: We said previously that you wouldn’t have to connect your Facebook account again after the Big Reset, but with the release of Facebook’s latest API, we actually will ask you to reconnect your Facebook. Sorry for the inconvenience! Original post: For a while now you’ve heard whisperings and hushed comments about an event of [...]

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