Two of the Minnov8 Gang took the opportunity this week to get together with former Twin Citian Steve Bendt. As you’ll recall, Steve had been a senior social media manager at Best Buy, and a cofounder of its Blue Shirt Nation employee social network, but left earlier this year for a new opportunity with Microsoft in Redmond, WA.
Graeme Thickins and Tim Elliott sat down with Steve for coffee the morning after he arrived back in Minneapolis for a holiday family visit. What ensued was a 30-minute+ discussion on a whole raft of topics related to Steve’s new role, the Windows 7 rollout, hints of future plans, other MS initiatives we asked Steve to weigh in on (though of course he couldn’t speak officially for the company), and Steve’s personal experiences in making his big career move.
Show notes:
- Steve Bendt’s social media coordinates: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
- Steve’s personal blog
- truCAST from Visible Technologies
- Radian6
- Crimson Hexagon
- Windows 7 House Party
- Hosting Your Party video
- House Party parody video
- The social conversation aggregator for Windows 7
- Microsoft Looking Glass post at TechCrunch
Listen to, or download, the interview with Steve Bendt
January 5th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for posting and sharing Steve’s interview and calling out @visible_tech and our @trucast solutions in your post. Steve works in an awesome team headed by Marty Collins who tweets via @seattlegirl.
Cheers,
@bcahill
@visible_tech