The International Business Times came out with their list of 5 agencies they describe as "The World's Top Social Media Marketing Firms for 2011" and Ignite Social Media is one of the five selected. We're honestly not sure of the criteria, but we're flattered to be...
Ignite Social Media's very own president, Jim Tobin, appeared on FoxNews.com Live yesterday to talk about his book and social media marketing generally. Imagine his surprise when some very sad breaking news interrupted the conversation, but then watch as the host (Lauren) and Jim work to...
Wow, what a start to the new year! Exciting stuff happening here at Ignite....
It has been over two years since we launched the Follow Me Social Media Plugin to help Wordpress users aggregate their social media presences. At the time we created a unique plugin that no one else had built. Since then many new plugins and widgets...
I launched our blog for Ignite Social Media and set out to figure out what a social media agency was, what it did and who it was going to do it for. We realized quickly that neither of us could program, as we kept repeatedly...
Since we opened in July 2007, we've grown very quickly; roughly 100% per year on average. And we get to work on fun stuff with a wonderful group of clients. In order to keep them happy, and keep our capacity at the level it needs to...
I woke up to a nice post today on the Cision Blog called "Revisiting the Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers." There have been lots of "Top 10," "Top 50" or "Top 100" lists before, but most have been based on either a...
Just a short post to announce our new director of strategic partnerships, Kevin Briody. Kevin is new to Ignite as of today and new to North Carolina as of this month, as we poached him away from Seattle.
...If you've been wanting to read "Social Media is a Cocktail Party," 
but haven't yet sprung for $14.95 to get the physical book, it's been...
I love it when people psychoanalyze social media. It’s interesting to me that people get so frightened by what is “lost†by having a strong virtual presence and engaging with social media on a daily basis. There are those who become anxiously aware of the lack...