One of the standing room only panels at SxSW was called, "Extending Your Brand: There's an App for That." With mobile and mobile social growing in popularity, the appeal for brands was obvious....
Many of the brands I work with are extremely interested in the Chinese market. With a burgeoning economy and a billion people, it's easy to understand why. In fact, one of my clients got back from China just in time to fly to Austin for...
One of the more interesting panels I was able to attend at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival was called "Can the Real-Time Web Be Realized?" As status updates (via Twitter, via Facebook, via Foursquare) become increasingly important, the ability to figure out what's...
There's a big difference between being a web writer and being a content strategist, according to Kristina Halvorson, the CEO of Brain Traffic and author of "Content Strategy for the Web", whose company does nothing but content strategy. She hosted the session, "Content...
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....
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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...