I'm on a plane flying from client meetings in Seattle to attend SxSWi in Austin. When I get there, I'm going to check in on Foursquare and Gowalla. Probably Loopt, too. Maybe I'll break out my old Brightkite ID (probably...
The hot location-based social network/game site Foursquare has made a somewhat significant change to the rules. It seems that you can now resign as mayor of any destination on Foursquare.
While this may save some potential embarrassment for folks who realize their fondness for 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.
...Today I'm sharing a video of a talk I had with Digg's Matt Van Horn. In it, we chatted about how Digg took the "threat" of Facebook and made it an opportunity, which I found interesting. Similary, when Twitter turned the world's attention to...
I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit '09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google....
Looking to work in social media marketing for some of the world's best brands? Know someone who would be perfect for it?
Ignite Social Media is hiring for a number of new positions made necessary by our continued growth. We've just hired a new director of...
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...
When I read the first few chapters of Bob Gilbreath's "The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with your customers by marketing with meaning," I could relate with every word. After all, a lot of the advice aligns perfectly with the basics of what we do...
A couple of days ago, Steven Baker of Business Week published "Beware Social Media Snake Oil," warning that "hordes of marketing 'experts' are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs."...
If you don't like the new Facebook news feed, where the top ranked news is shown first, and you have to click over to see your live feed, here's how to change it back....
Dear Owen,
Since you moved over from COO of Facebook to become CEO of MySpace, you've certainly made a lot of changes to the company. You've let one-third of the staff go. Your entire executive team is new....
Back in July, I predicted that Facebook would eventually kill Twitter. The argument I was making was that Facebook was taking steps to make itself capable of doing everything Twitter does, plus much, much more. When you add in the fact that their user base...