Do you know why some people are 1 to 4% Neandertal? During her talk Lynn Fellman will explain how your Uncle Ned and maybe you have an “Inner Neander” during her art and science talk on April 28th. Lynn’s presentation is one of many talks at Twin City libraries to celebrate National DNA Days. The discovery [...]
Continue reading...8. April 2012
Minnesota’s annual barcamp un-conference, aka Minnebar, returned for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday, April 7, and it was a blockbuster! Held again at Best Buy’s corporate headquarters in Richfield, the event attracted some 1300, the most in its history. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger — and better! A pre-party the night before [...]
Continue reading...26. March 2012
The 8th annual Minnesota Cup has officially launched! This is Minnesota’s premiere entrepreneural event and past ones have seen stiff competition in every category since there are so many great startups here in our State. To familiarize yourself with this year’s competition, please find several resources below in the embedded document (we compiled the press [...]
Continue reading...25. March 2012
Lief Larson, CEO of Workface, will be holding a single-day event called SaaS Camp 2012. This inaugural (but hopefully annual) event is focused on education and networking within the developing SaaS community here in Minnesota. Why this ‘camp’ and why now? Over the last few years, Lief has said he’s had the incredible opportunity to [...]
Continue reading...10. March 2012
Join the Entrepreneur’s Organization — Minnesota Chapter for an “Entrepreneur’s Rally” on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at CoCo Minneapolis. Invited by Cem Erdem, founder, President and CEO of Augusoft, Inc. and of Project Skyway to this event, I realized quickly that this year’s event is bigger and better than last year’s and you must attend if you are an entrepreneur! Details in [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2012
Mobile, mobile, mobile. If you had to give advice to some kid you were mentoring regarding an industry they should focus on with their career, anything mobile would be great advice. We humans are not going to get less mobile (though our waistlines might state otherwise) and new mobile devices, apps, and ways to connect [...]
Continue reading...18. November 2011
The Gang shows up for the Social Media Breakfast held at Thomson Reuters to talk the new Kindle Fire, tablets and tablet publishing, and mobile. We didn’t have enough time to be exhaustive in our discussion, but we cover a lot of ground in a short time. Joining us on the ‘cast is our frequent [...]
Continue reading...13. November 2011
The 5th Annual Defrag Conference was held November 8-10. 2011, in Denver, and I was there once again reporting on all the action during this much heralded meeting of the Internet’s big minds. One of the highlights this time for me was the keynote on the final day by Robert Stephens, CTO of Best Buy [...]
Continue reading...12. October 2011
The Minnov8 Gang covered the MIMASummit live as well as bringing in tweets with the hashtag #mimasummit. Click the “more” link to view the post with the embedded liveblog archive within it.
Continue reading...11. October 2011
The president of MIMA, Tim Brunelle, and his team have put together an amazing 10th annual MIMA Summit event. MIMA, as the oldest and largest interactive marketing association in the U.S., with more than 1300 members, never fails to disappoint in drawing excellent, in-demand speakers to its annual event. I had the pleasure of running [...]
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13. April 2012
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