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MIMA Summit 2011: Interview With Tim Brunelle and Ed Boches

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 [...]

Minnesota EduTech Startup KidBlog Now Reaching One Million Users

7. October 2011

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On Wednesday, I stopped into the EduTech Minnesota conference at the U of M. I wanted to catch up with my friends Matt Hardy and Dan Flies, cofounders of Kidblog.org, and hear about the latest with their startup. It turns out, of the 10 startups that were selected to present at the event, none even [...]

Something Amazing Happened at #EduTechMN Yesterday – Steve Jobs Was in the Room

6. October 2011

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[This post was originally published earlier today on Tech~Surf~Blog.] I felt it. I didn’t know it then, but it may have been at the precise moment Steve was passing. I was sitting in a room of about 100 people, mid-afternoon, listening to a panel of educators at the EduTech MN conference at the University of [...]

U of MN Center for Spirituality & Healing’s Mobile App

19. September 2011

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The U of MN Center for Spirituality and Healing, a world-renowned resource, recently released an iPhone and iPad app called “Wellscapes” (iTunes link). I’ve known of the Center for quite some time and been interested in what they describes as their mission to, “…enhance health and well-being by educating health professionals, empowering consumers, and fundamentally [...]

English Books for Thai School – Can You Help?

19. September 2011

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A few weeks ago I received a contact from the Minnov8 site. The woman who wrote it (Lynn Brown) teaches at a school in Thailand in a program featuring English as a second language. They desperately need books in English for their tiny library and they have no funds for the books or for shipping. [...]

Predicting Human Behavior through Games

6. September 2011

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Every week, people from around the world spend more than 3 billion hours playing video games. Professor Jaideep Srivastava of the University of Minnesota and Professor Dmitri Williams at the University of Southern California find this number too large to ignore. Their software company Ninja Metrics relies on social analytics to make sense of human [...]

More Fuel for NGIN

24. August 2011

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TST Media, the creators of the NGIN software platform has scored a round of financing led by El Dorado Ventures. When the ink dried on the agreement last week TST had secured $3.5 million to “grow existing business partnerships, drive software innovations and expand their talent base.” TST Media CEO and co-founder, Justin Kaufenberg noted [...]

Discovering High-Quality Produce through Actionable Analytics

14. August 2011

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The startup Produce Ratings recently released their new beta website at ProduceRatings.com, which allows consumers to find and rate produce in their local communities. This Minnesota-based firm has been flying under the radar while their concepts emerge into a product that provides real utility. While they are in a prelaunch phase, they do have the [...]

StarTribune Debuts iPad App

8. August 2011

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In this morning’s dead-trees edition of the StarTribune, a full page ad appeared announcing the availability of the StarTribune iPad app. Downloading and launching it presents you with a clean, easy to use interface, optimized for a tablet-sized device. Offering a complimentary subscription until October 16th, the StarTribune iPad app joins many daily newspapers who [...]

Opening Night at the Minneapolis Grain Idea Exchange

1. August 2011

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The floor of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange was open for business Saturday night as Project Skyway and CoCo hosted an open house for the new co-working space. What was once a space bustling with grain traders has been transformed into four distinct spaces including drop-in working, campsite (small company) working, meeting rooms and event space. [...]

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