Jim Tobin, Author at Ignite Social Media

Ignite Social Media Opens Two New Offices, Deepens Team and Offerings

Since we opened in July 2007, we've grown very quickly; roughly 100% per year on average. And we get to work on fun stuff with a wonderful group of clients. In order to keep them happy, and keep our capacity at the level it needs to...

18 June, 2010

Ignite Social Media ranked #1 agency social media blog

I woke up to a nice post today on the Cision Blog called "Revisiting the Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers." There have been lots of "Top 10," "Top 50" or "Top 100" lists before, but most have been based on either a...

20 April, 2010

Taking Your Brand Mobile with an App: Notes from SxSW

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....

14 March, 2010

Social Media and China: It’s Not What You Think: Notes from SxSW

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...

14 March, 2010

Can the Real-Time Web Be Realized? Notes from SxSWi

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...

13 March, 2010

Content Strategy is Much More than Web Copywriting: More SxSW Notes

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...

13 March, 2010

Foursquare a game? You may be missing the whole point

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...

12 March, 2010

New: You Can Now Resign as Mayor on Foursquare

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...

26 February, 2010

Kevin Briody joins Ignite Social Media

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.

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19 January, 2010