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 [...]
Continue reading...7. October 2011
Several hundred tech lovers crammed into Schulze Hall at the University of St. Thomas last night and challenged the air conditioning on another day of near-record highs in the state, for the latest edition of the quasi-quarterly Minnedemo event. Luckily, there was plenty of cold beer — thank you, sponsors — and a damn nice [...]
Continue reading...5. October 2011
We were really honored to have Tech Cocktail in town last night hosting its first startup and entrepreneurial mixer in Minnesota. The event was held at CoCo Minneapolis (on the floor of the historic Grain Exchange in downtown Minneapolis). I’m here to tell you it was a blockbuster success! More than 200 people were in attendance. [...]
Continue reading...15. September 2011
At a swanky little affair at the offices of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, the Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) announced the finalists for the 2011 Tekne Awards. In their 12th year the Teknes “honor companies, innovations and individuals that positively impact Minnesota’s technology-based economy.” While many of Minnesota’s largest tech companies are represented, there [...]
Continue reading...22. June 2011
I stopped into a reception held last evening at the U of M’s Carlson School for this year’s group of semifinalists in the annual Minnesota Cup. It’s the seventh year of this business plan competition, which has gained broad support from our business community. I had a chance to interview cofounder Scott Litman, who talked [...]
Continue reading...20. June 2011
Rob Weber from W3i just gave me a heads-up on what looks like a fabulous mobile event occurring this Wednesday evening. Here are the details: What: TiE Minnesota in conjunction with the St. Thomas Graduate Programs in Software and the sponsorship of MentorMate is bringing together premier leaders in the Minnesota mobile community to address [...]
Continue reading...18. June 2011
Two of the Gang were at UnSummit 5 Saturday and did the podcast with Meg Knodl, Mykl Roventine and Julio Ojeda-Zapata while Meg and Mykl’s UnSummit co-organizer, Don Ball, was taking a nap presenting a session. We talk about a range of topics on this lively ‘cast. Hosts: Steve Borsch and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott and [...]
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18. November 2011
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