It's the holiday's right? A time for merrily buying Christmas gifts, Hanukkah gifts, Kwanzaa gifts (and, if you're wondering, time for buying MY birthday present—the 29th of December, write it down…)....

27 November, 2007

We held the initial meeting of the Social Media Club of the Triangle in our offices back on November 14. Of course, it took me until I had some down time to upload the video and cut it up a bit. I'll admit, I was...

26 November, 2007

Ignite Social Media was the only social media agency featured this week in a Crain's Detroit Business story on corporate blogging. You can read the whole story by clicking here, although only subscribers get to see my smiling picture. (I know! Recent enough to subscribe,...

20 November, 2007

Nick O'Neill has an interesting post on his very good "Social Times" site. (How, by the way, does he find time to post so much??)...

19 November, 2007

Andy Beal committed heresy. He dared suggest that Apple doesn't really get social media and that they will need to figure it out sooner or later if they want to continue to thrive. While it's not surprising that Apple fans defended Apple, what is surprising...

19 November, 2007

Ok, quick post, but this is cool. Just got an email from Papa John's saying you can order pizza via text message. Basically, store up to 4 of your frequent orders online with your credit card #, text them, pick which of your orders you...

15 November, 2007

Rupert Murdoch, chair of News Corp., is buying Dow Jones & Co, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal for $5 billion. Yesterday he announced that he's ending the subscription model for the WSJ.com website (which many deem a success). He'll give up $50 million...

14 November, 2007

Two articles from IgniteSocialMedia.com were featured in a blog collection of articles known as "Everything you could possibly want to know about social media." The collection features articles about how to use StumbleUpon, Digg, Sphinn, del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life, "social radio" site Jango, and...

12 November, 2007

When you work in a social media agency, people send you all sorts of comics and stuff. (For the record, I enjoy that, send me stuff.) This one happens to come from one of my favorite comics, Pearls Before Swine. It's consistently funny. Enjoy today's...

09 November, 2007

I'm speaking tonight at a panel put on by Business Wire. If you want to come, please do so, and be sure to say hello. The topic is on social media generally, but more specifically looking at using social media for enhancing your...

08 November, 2007

e-Marketer reported last week that "only 7.75%" of online marketing spending was dedicated to social media campaigns. They even suggest that "Web 2.0 is an also-ran in spending to online ads."...

05 November, 2007