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Social Media Success: How About a Little Twelp?

I’ve recently started a quest; Find social media success stories that have nothing to do with Motrin Moms or Domino’s Pizza. Face it, though these are interesting examples of the importance of listening and reacting to the conversation,these examples are just plain old! By the way, if you’re doing a presentation on social media and [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 57: Journalism & Social Media

Phenomenal discussion at today’s Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP) at the Summit Brewery where the meeting was held. The discussion was on “Social Media and Journalism” and was facilitated by Julio Ojeda-Zapata (@jojeda), a technology writer and columnist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and author of the book, Twitter Means Business (and a frequent [...]

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Minnov8 Interviewed at MIMA Summit ’09 by SocialWendy

The Gage Group had a video shooting area at the MIMA Summit ’09 and these interviews were being done by Wendy Meadley (@socialwendy). Wendy grabbed three of the four Minnov8 Gang to get us on camera and recap the event from our perspective. PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE

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Minnov8 Gang #56: Talking Blogworld with Lisa Grimm

One of the Twin Cities most active social media participants, Lisa Grimm (LinkedIn; Twitter; Facebook), headed out last week to the Blogworld/New Media Expo held in Las Vegas and two of the four Minnov8 Gang sat down with Lisa to find out what happened, her impressions of the event, and what she took away from it. [...]

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Visi Launches ‘ReliaCloud’ Services to Packed House

Got a nickel? Then you have a server for an hour, my friend. Visi.com, Minnesota’s largest Internet services/hosting firm unveiled on Wednesday morning its all-new brand of cloud computing services, dubbed “ReliaCloud,” with pricing starting at 5 cents per hour for its first offering, called “Cloud Server.” The breakfast seminar, “CloudVision,” was held at The Metropolitan [...]

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Our Head In The Cloud: Minnov8 Talks With Chris Howard

Visi hosted Cloud Vision 2009 at the Metropolitan this past Wednesday and invited Minnov8 along. It was an event tailored to the IT community they serve and was the chance for them to introduce attendees to their soon to launch cloud product called ReliaCloud. Minnov8 colleague Graeme Thickins has posted a complete look at ReliaCloud, [...]

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Transparency Please, Governor Pawlenty

Apparently our Governor has decided not to publicly release the communication issued by a state agency to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) relative to the Administration’s funding priorities for federal broadband stimulus projects, specifically the Minnesota-focused NTIA/RUS broadband stimulus applications stating in comments to the aggregator of public broadband information, StimulusBroadband.com, that, ”…the communication issued [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 55: The Connected & Social Library

Libraries used to be places to go solely to find information and knowledge in containers called “books” that were comprised of “atoms” and organized by Melvil Dewey’s cool Decimal System, but increasingly library systems are morphing in to places to get connected online where patrons can find their information and knowledge in “bits” while interacting [...]

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DoApp Making Big Strides with ‘Mobile Local News’ App

If you’re a TV news station, newspaper, or online news site, you probably should get to know Minnesota startup DoApp Inc.  For those of you in our local tech community who already know of this firm (it launched early in 2008), you may find this fact amazing: on a search for “DoApp” in the Apple® iTunes® [...]

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Best Buy’s mIQ Beats Microsoft’s MyPhone At It’s Own Game

As mobile phones have become more powerful the need to access and backup information on them has increased. One way to do this is to mesh your phone’s operating system on a central server as pioneered by Danger’s Sidekick and emulated by Google’s Android and Palm’s WebOS. If something happens on the phone, it’s automatically [...]

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