Archive | December, 2008

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 18

20. December 2008

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Your Gang members talk about other people's predictions, make a few of our own, and generally discuss possibilities and opportunities for next year.

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Marketing Innovation: Best Buy vs. Target

17. December 2008

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Two of the most difficult marketing jobs in Minnesota right now has to be leading local retail giants Target and Best Buy. Although of different scales, Target is about 60% larger than Best Buy, each is facing the same catastrophic pullback in consumer spending that has resulted in each company reporting some of their worst [...]

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What Can We Learn from the Minneapolis Top 100 Twitterers List?

15. December 2008

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For those of you not yet on Twitter — and aren’t you feeling so smug you’re not wasting as much time as the rest of us? — you’re likely not aware there’s a site called Twitterholic, which ranks the popularity of Twitter users by number of followers.  Actually, despite what non-Twitter users may think, this [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 17

13. December 2008

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Community strategy, management of the ecosystem and paying attention to social media conversations online is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s an imperative for doing business today, for brand management or for building your own personal brand. Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch,Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson, Garrick Van Buren Connie Bensen is a woman who is completely [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 16

7. December 2008

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Social media and networking is pretty fragmented, and it’s important that Minnesota becomes fully invested in using all of it in an innovative way (e.g., Best Buy), and doing innovative startups like OnePlace (think Twitter in collaboration) and Enleiten (group GTD). Thankfully, we’re starting to see a bunch of new approaches that are allowing all [...]

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Sierra Bravo Brings Back Its ‘Website Challenge’ Community Service Project

6. December 2008

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It won’t be long before area web developers are losing more sleep helping nonprofits. Rapidly growing Bloomington-based web development firm Sierra Bravo has announced the second coming of its very successful Overnight Website Challenge — 24 hours of pure nerd energy applied to creating or spiffing up the web sites of some deserving Minnesota nonprofits.  The [...]

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