Minnedemo is happening within days and the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now with numerous major announcements. As such, the Gang is delighted to have both Ben Edwards and Luke Francl, the two behind Minnedemo, on to discuss next week’s event. A bit later in the show we were very pleased to [...]
Continue reading...1. December 2010
At a recent Minnesota-American Marketing Association event Rick Mathieson, author of “The On-Demand Brand” talked about the future of digital marketing. The group that had gathered at Vic’s in Minneapolis listened as Rick highlighted his 5 trends to look for in 2011. While Rick may be a bit aggressive with how far some of the [...]
Continue reading...14. November 2010
While most in the Twin Cities awoke to a snowy November day yesterday a hearty band of bloggers, programmers, designers, and assorted geeks braved the slippery, slushy roads for a day at camp…Word Camp. The first such event in the Twin Cities, the day was a resoundingly successful local presentation of the “everything WordPress” gatherings [...]
Continue reading...10. November 2010
At an event in downtown Minneapolis yesterday, Verizon Wireless announced “the world’s first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network” to the Twin Cities, slated to come online “before the end of 2010” and will be “the death of the tether” according to Verizon sources at the venue. Graeme Thickins and I attended the event for [...]
Continue reading...2. November 2010
Lommen Abdo is holding its 3rd Annual Entertainment & Sports Law Symposium for attorneys and industry professionals who want to know more about substantive entertainment law and business issues. Featured speakers include Lommen Abdo lawyers and representatives from the GRAMMY Foundation®, MusiCares®, Minnesota Vikings, Digital Media Wire, Chrysalis Music Group, USC Thornton School of Music [...]
Continue reading...28. October 2010
Unconferences, meetups and ‘camps’ are accelerating in Minnesota. All began as ways to get people together around a topic, platform, software or category and these collaborative, free and participatory events are great ways to learn from one another. As Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems once famously said, “No matter who you are, most of the [...]
Continue reading...16. October 2010
This past Friday night on Twin Cities Public Television’s (TPT) “Almanac” program, frequent contributor to Minnov8, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, made his first appearance on the show to talk about new media and I thought he knocked it out of the park. He was joined by two other delightful and very knowledgeable panelists, Shayla Thiel-Stern of the University [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2010
The Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference, co-hosted by the Minnesota Venture Capital Association and The Collaborative, is being held at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Thursday, October 14. I’ll be in attendance all day live-blogging the event, right here, starting at 7:45 am when the program begins. For the latest official agenda, click here. Initially, [...]
Continue reading...10. October 2010
We’ll find out Thursday, because I’ll be there to live-blog it all: the proceedings of the annual Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center, co-hosted as always by the Minnesota Venture Capital Association and The Collaborative. The blue-suit crowd will turn out once more to hash over where, oh, where is venture [...]
Continue reading...3. October 2010
The Minnesota High Tech Association is all set to present Social Media: Marketing and Enterprise 2.0 this Thursday morning October 7th. In a time where you may think the conference, meeting, or coffee talk on the topic of Social Media are a dime a dozen, the MHTA is striving to cover two sides of the [...]
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7. January 2011
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