The hot 100, the first 100 Days, the top 100, the turn of the century… One hundred always seems to be a bit 0f a big deal. We sometimes become fascinated with 100 of anything. (Kind of odd for a bunch folks who just can’t seem to get behind the metric system, don’t ya think?) Here at Minnov8 we are not immune to a bit of centuplicate fascination. So we’re a bit giddy about our next Minnov8 Gang Podcast.
For the past two plus years my colleagues (Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins) and I have, for the most part, spent some 60-90 minutes each week talking about local tech, web and social media topics impacting Minnesota…and beyond. We’ve been honored to be joined by guests from the local and national interactive and tech world to talk about everything from local start-ups to mobile, apps to entrepreneurs, Google to gizmos and yes, probably too much Apple. It’s been such a blast that we all were taken by surprise when Steve, our fearless leader, noted that our next one is number 100.
A normal podcast on such and auspicious occasion just won’t do. OK, we realize that the 100th Minnov8 Podcast may only really be a big deal to us and our most devoted fans (a very nice guy named Ray) but we’re going to celebrate it…in public…anyway.
So here’s the plan, we’ll record the next Minnov8 Gang podcast, the 100th, on Wednesday, November 10th. We’ll do it somewhere at Chino Latino in Uptown where we can gather together a few guests, including some of our favorites from the past 99 podcasts, while raising a celebratory glass with each other. It’s not going to be a big deal involving steam tables of crab cakes and pot stickers. Nor will it be a white linen affair requiring pre-registration via Eventbrite. Nope, just a nice casual gathering of friends doing what we always do; talk about web and tech innovation in the land of 10,000 lakes. As soon as we confirm the spot, we’ll pass it along. So, Chino Latino it is. Wednesday November 10th at 5:30pm. Feel free to join us if you’d like.
In the meantime, while we scurry about preparing for the fun, please feel free to take a stroll down memory lane and listen to some the past 99 podcasts.
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