As most of my coworkers know, I get incredibly excited when I find new tools.  This month's find is no exception. Over the past few weeks I was on the hunt for a really good RSS desktop application that is easy to use, customizable, and...

29 July, 2010

Amazon has always been a category leader in e-commerce for how helpful and personal its product recommendations have been.  Now they are taking this to the next level by pulling in Facebook's social graph to aid them in their current product recommendations. Though this project...

28 July, 2010

Here at Ignite Social Media we like to stay abreast of trends and insights from notable industry experts inside and outside of the Social Media space. One of the best ways to do so is attending niche conferences around the country. I have had the...

20 July, 2010

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...

09 July, 2010

Digg.com is so 2008. Also, here's a picture of two kittens. Stay tuned for another. This post was originally going to be about why our favorite (or maybe not-so-favorite) social bookmarking sites seem to be falling to Facebook and Twitter shares, but when I did my research,...

23 June, 2010

Nothing we say online is private. If you post something to your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr page, the world can know about it. When you communicate via a social media portal, it is the equivalent of being at a crowded party with a microphone....

04 June, 2010

While brainstorming for this blog post, I kept flashing back to a scene in Dirty Dancing in which Neil (that rich guy) brags to Baby about his ways with women. "Last week, I took a girl from Jamie, the lifeguard. And he said to her, right...

17 May, 2010

As most of us are probably aware, Facebook, along with a myriad of other changes, took away the "Become A Fan" functionality and renamed it "Like." Of course, "Like" existed before, but it was something you could do in response to an action. Now, rather...

11 May, 2010