Patrick Adcock
Patrick | Editorial Intern

Patrick is an editorial intern at ideaLaunch, where he helps develop and edit content. He has also taken to the web, contributing blog posts and content to the ideaLaunch Facebook and Twitter pages. He enjoys writing and editing, and sometimes edits his friends and family while they’re in mid-sentence. (He’s trying to keep this under control, however.)

Patrick has many interests, made clear by his choices of education: he holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Massachusetts and is earning a master’s in journalism at Northeastern University.


Patrick's Latest Posts

Google Keeps on Growing: And Your Business Can, Too

As if you needed another reason to consider putting more energy into your content marketing efforts. Arbor Networks, an online security company, recently released a report that shows Google now accounts for 6.4 percent  of all internet traffic worldwide. This is a record for Google, who also announced that its web traffic increased by 1 percent [...]

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27 Oct 2010 | No Comments

Google Instant: Helping or Hurting SEO?

This past Wednesday, Google unveiled its new Instant search feature. Instead of having to type in a single search query, users now get to see a whole page of results as they are still typing. According to Google, people type slowly but are able to read quickly. The average user will take 300 milliseconds between [...]

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10 Sep 2010 | 1 Comment

Why Shouldn’t You Do Content Marketing?

I think of myself as a writer. I started blogging fairly regularly in high school on LiveJournal, or one of those sites. Through the years, I’ve attempted to keep up with my blogging, using sites like Blogger, Salon.com, WordPress—even designing my own web site on iWeb. You name the platform, I’ve pretty much tried them [...]

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28 Jun 2010 | 1 Comment

Facebook’s Marketing Problem

This coming Monday, May 31st, the United States will commemorate Memorial Day with a long weekend, parades, barbecues and of course, white outfits. Better yet, the weather has promised to be ideal, at least here in the Northeast. However, did you know that this year, Memorial Day will share the limelight with another holiday? It’s [...]

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28 May 2010 | 2 Comments

The Apple iPad-Diversify Your Content Marketing Efforts!

Let’s be honest, when Apple unveiled its new, giant version of the iPod Touch, err…iPad on January 27th, the usual sense of wonder and sparkle just wasn’t really there. The initial excitement quickly became overshadowed by jokes about the name, and by the realization that the iPad did, indeed, appear to be a really big, [...]

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29 Jan 2010 | 1 Comment