Archive | February, 2009
Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 27
On this week’s show, Graeme Thickins heads down for a few interviews at the start of the Sierra Bravo’s Overnight Website Challenge. Today’s host: Graeme Thickins Sierra Bravo’s Overnight Website Challenge again gathers ten teams of volunteer web pros to create free websites for ten nonprofits. Last time they dropped the F-word (free free free) they had more [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 26
21. February 2009
Video. It’s the hot thing but most users seem to be seeing it as just another data type to be delivered for free and at low cost. Once most of us master deploying on-demand video on our personal or company website, blog or even with screencasts for training purposes, the inevitable next thing many of [...]
Continue reading...Meet and Tweet at Twestival!
16. February 2009
Twestival moved into Uptown on Thursday night attracting local tweeps looking to help bring clean water to the world. Organized by charity: water, the gathering at Moto-i was part of 200+ city effort world-wide. From Hamburg to Hong Kong, Dubai to Dublin, and Madrid to Minneapolis the organization’s goal was to raise $1 million dollars [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 25
14. February 2009
This Gang podcast is a short one with a focus on one, key thing startups need and care about: building awareness. You’ve heard us talk many times about how the time of flux we’re living in has created new opportunities and that people are atypically open to listening to better, cheaper, faster or new ways [...]
Continue reading...Darwin & DNA
10. February 2009
In the days before the internet hit and technology like interactive programming, courses, kiosks and encyclopedias were delivered on CD-ROM or LaserDiscs, I was involved in the (now defunct) International Interactive Communications Society (IICS) and got to know a local artist by the name of Lynn Fellman. With an artist’s eye and a geek-like fascination [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming Events: MinneWebCon
10. February 2009
MinneWebCon is a full-day, three-track, continuing education conference for web professionals happening Monday, April 6, 2009. This conference delivers a practical blend of technical and creative information from industry practitioners and educators directly to University staff, students, and colleagues from other higher education institutions (as well as from other noncommercial and commercial areas of web [...]
Continue reading...The Spirit of MinneDemo
9. February 2009
Capturing the spirit and energy of MinneDemo is a challenge, so the Minnov8 team was really pleased when 2008 Emmy Award nominee, McKnight Filmmaking Fellowship holder, CurrentTV producer and videographer for MinnPost (who delivers videos like this one of local geek, Ed Kohler of TechnologyEvangelist and TheDeets, and his personal graffiti elimination program), Gabe Chefitz [...]
Continue reading...Why You Need a Social Hub
9. February 2009
Any business today can’t function without technology like a telephone, fax machine or email. But when you think about how relatively unchanged office work was from the earliest part of the last century until the advent of personal computers in the late 1970′s, much of the technology used in offices evolved incrementally. In less than [...]
Continue reading...CloudCamp Minneapolis Set for April 18
9. February 2009
A CloudCamp unconference will be held at the University of Minnesota on April 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with a Happy Hour after the event. CloudCamp is focused on cloud computing technologies and is an opportunity for companies, entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts to share ideas and to network. A tentative agenda for the [...]
Continue reading...MinneDemo 2009 Innovator Demos
7. February 2009
On Friday February 6th, nine internet and web innovations were showcased at the MinneDemo event held at Intermedia Arts. These entrepreneurs came to demonstrate their ideas, and what they’d built, to an appreciative audience of nearly 300 attendees. People from all over came for the demos, as well as to schmooze and connect with other [...]
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28. February 2009
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