Social Media Marketing can be a very tedious task, and thoroughly time consuming. Firefox addons are a great way to help supplement the exhausting nature of the medium. Just recently Firefox released what it calls "collections". Collections are groups of add-ons that are submitted by...

11 June, 2009

I decided to put a hold on the next installment of my series Using Social Media Marketing to Promote Yourself as a Brand to bring you something a little less involved, but hopefully useful nonetheless. I do a lot of writing, (though not as...

25 September, 2008

Last week, I drove 3000 miles in 3 days—from upstate South Carolina to Northern California. During the trip I used a number of social media tools to share my trip progress. From twittering mini-location updates and interesting factoids about Route 66 to sharing images on...

25 August, 2008

At Ignite, we do a lot of research on the Social Media Language tools out there, and some are certainly more effective than others. I've dug up these 5 tools that you don't not know about, and can be great sources to get your...

01 July, 2008

Websites bore me. There, I said it. This includes the many bloated social networks that pop up on an hourly basis. I'm a minimalist. Even my sentences are short. I just want my web applications that do exactly what I need them to do—nothing...

26 June, 2008

In college and high school, I used flash cards, vocabulary lists, and even audio programs on tapes to learn new languages (Spanish in high school, German in college). Each of those tools is helpful in some capacity, but in the end, the quickest way to...

17 June, 2008

In my previous post this week, I talked a little about my honeymoon planning frustrations, which led me to delve into the social media applications and the specific tactics that the travel industry as a whole should adopt....

21 December, 2007

The fires in California once again remind us of a need for improved communication in the case of emergencies. So far, reverse 911 calls have been distributed via cell phones and landlines to notify residents of the impending fires and to warn of evacuations....

25 October, 2007

In my earlier post, "Is Shoutlet Overselling Itself," I took a look at the Shoutlet website after their product launch announcement andShoutlet logo wondered aloud, basically, "What is this thing? Does it work? Or is it hype?"...

16 October, 2007