I need your help. My new book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party, is going to production in the next week. I've been presented with two designs for the cover. Neither one is 100% yet, as there's some wording that needs to be tweaked,...

22 September, 2008

Social media geeks, myself included, have been looking for/waiting for the "Twitter Killer" to emerge over the last few months. While Twitter's famous crashes seem to have lessened, the stream of consciousness style doesn't seem to facilitate effective conversations as well as we might...

18 September, 2008

My new book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party, written with Lisa Braziel, is ready to go into production in the coming weeks and should be available for purchase by mid-October. The cover designs are being finalized, the preface is being written (by Robert...

15 September, 2008

This weekend, I went to see Collective Soul, Live and Blues Traveler in concert. I'm not a big music buying guy. I like 90s Alternative music (among other stuff), so I usually just click a QuickMix on Pandora and let it run. That means...

20 August, 2008

All we do here at Ignite Social Media is social media marketing. So we watch it carefully, looking for trends, what's coming next, what's likely to bubble up. And it's got me thinking. I believe that social media is in its infancy....

28 July, 2008

On Wednesday, July 30, I'll be serving as moderator at the North Carolina Technology Association's Intersection Breakfast. The topic is "Get Online: Trends and Tools in Online Marketing." Following the breakfast, the NCTA is offering a tour of the Dell facility in Winston-Salem, but you...

27 July, 2008

When I first started this social media agency, the question I was asked most often was, "What is social media?" In just a few months, that question morphed into, "What kinds of things can social media do for my organization specifically?" Today, we're onto a...

22 July, 2008

Today is the one year birthday of Ignite Social Media. At least according to our Google Analytics account, which shows one visitor – just one – to this site on July 2, 2007. A lot has happened since we first set out that day to...

02 July, 2008