Social media sites, by their very definition, are ephemeral creatures. Their mercurial nature is part of what makes them so intriguing. What is here today can be gone, or even worse, obsolete tomorrow. Just ask Friendster. ...

28 May, 2009

Last fall, after planning a 3-week trip, I was attempting to sublease my prime location of a Brooklyn apartment on Craigslist. While attempting to dodge the typical sketchy Craigslist behavior, I got an email from someone promoting a site called Air Bed & Breakfast. Air...

12 May, 2009

This post may cause internal upheaval at Ignite Social Media, but we needed some outside input. We just couldn't decide which Ignite guy looked the best in gold spandex. We know it's a difficult choice, but please try and help us out by making your...

01 May, 2009

Recently I stumbled across the microsite for the "Filter For Good" campaign, which is a collaboration by Brita and Nalgene to convince people to stop buying bottled water. Well, I didn't stumble across it, exactly. There was an ad on Pandora's website...

23 April, 2009

>At the behest of @influxed and @ashtonmae, I decided to do a brief round up of some best practices when managing the Twitter account for a company. There are companies that entrust their Twitter activities to a team of people, especially when updates...

09 April, 2009

Okay, so maybe I have a bit of a penchant for action sports when it comes to examples of companies that could use social media, but Burton snowboards is a great example of a company that caters to a niche interest with a wide...

31 March, 2009

If you've ever written a blog post, read a blog, or had an opinion on anything in the blogosphere at all, chances are you've encountered a negative comment. In some cases, the vitriol of negative comments are the driving force behind the blog itself (see...

12 March, 2009

We have a lot of conversations in the office about Twitter followers. We talk about the follow/following ratio, and the delicate balance there in. We talk about the concept of the auto-follow, and whether we support it or not. We talk about who we're following...

03 March, 2009

Unless you managed to somehow be asleep at the wheel of life yesterday, you probably caught the massive uproar over the change in Facebook's Terms of Service agreement all over the Interwebs. No one seems to fully understand what exactly the agreement means, which...

17 February, 2009

I own a lot of shoes. I mean, a ridiculous amount. If you went to my apartment, all you'd see are cats and shoes. I have an interest, and specifically, I am interested in DC Shoes. I own a few pairs, to put it nicely. Sneaker...

07 February, 2009

We here at Ignite Social Media pride ourselves on being on top of the newest social media toys, partially because it's what we do, but partially because we can't help ourselves. I swear, Brian Chappell was born with a mouse fused to his tiny little...

14 January, 2009
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