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Zipnosis: Healthcare On-the-Go

28. January 2010

Zipnosis is a 2008 Minnesota Cup winner (Student category) and a pre-launch healthcare startup in Minneapolis that is zeroing in on the always-on and always-connected generation with a very interesting and potentially disruptive healthcare business model. I sat down this week with founder Jon Pearce to discuss Zipnosis and what they were trying to accomplish. ”When [...]

Stratasys Inks Deal with HP

21. January 2010

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As a longtime fan of science fiction I have always had a fascination with future technology speculation and why I (and most fans) enjoyed Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was on that show that the replicator (first used on the original 1960′s series) began to deliver much more than food and drink: it could create any [...]

Dave Does Digital: A Morning Show and Social Media

13. January 2010

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How a Twin Cities morning mainstay, The Dave Ryan Show, is using social media. I admit it, I listen to commercial radio quite a bit…yes, even Top 40. I know this is hard for many to admit. There is this pressure that if you don’t listen to NPR all the time you’re some how less [...]

Activ8: Event Management for Small Business

11. January 2010

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Activ8 is a new Twin Cities-based event/class registration service targeted to the small business’ that has a limited (or no) no web presence but those who offer services in the areas of dance, karate, gymnastics, or fitness studios are perfect potential users as are individual instructors in fitness, music, yoga, or tutoring. One of the great things about [...]

Your Customers are Watching You

4. January 2010

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While many internet and web technology sites and blogs have published their 2010 predictions (including Minnov8), this post serves as a warning and a wake-up call to Minnesota companies that the power you once held — not just in communication, marketing and public relations surrounding your products, services and company — but that power is [...]

Classroom of the Future?

7. December 2009

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Reinventing education in a time of accelerating change is more important than ever before, especially if you’re at all interested in your kids and our future workforce being technologically savvy and possibly more so than any other workforce in the world. Normally I wouldn’t do a story on an interesting initiative with a marginally innovative [...]

WCCO Walks The Wire

3. November 2009

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At their latest Bloginar gathering WCCO-TV previewed The Wire, a site that will allow users to see a story develop over time. It also allows staffers and users to interact and contribute to stories as they do develop. I had a chance to sit down with WCCO’s Director of New Media, John Daenzer to talk [...]

GiveMN: Charitable Fundraising Meets Social Networking

2. November 2009

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This morning my Twitter stream was filled with tweets about GiveMN an online charitable donation site which launched today. The idea is simple; provide an online resource for the more than 36,000 Minnesota charitable and religious organizations to raise money for their programs. GiveMN.org is built with Razoo, an online platform optimized for charitable giving [...]

Visi Launches ‘ReliaCloud’ Services to Packed House

22. October 2009

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Got a nickel? Then you have a server for an hour, my friend. Visi.com, Minnesota’s largest Internet services/hosting firm unveiled on Wednesday morning its all-new brand of cloud computing services, dubbed “ReliaCloud,” with pricing starting at 5 cents per hour for its first offering, called “Cloud Server.” The breakfast seminar, “CloudVision,” was held at The Metropolitan [...]

Transparency Please, Governor Pawlenty

21. October 2009

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Apparently our Governor has decided not to publicly release the communication issued by a state agency to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) relative to the Administration’s funding priorities for federal broadband stimulus projects, specifically the Minnesota-focused NTIA/RUS broadband stimulus applications stating in comments to the aggregator of public broadband information, StimulusBroadband.com, that, ”…the communication issued [...]

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Zipnosis: Healthcare On-the-Go

Stratasys Inks Deal with HP

Dave Does Digital: A Morning Show and Social Media

Activ8: Event Management for Small Business

Your Customers are Watching You

Classroom of the Future?

WCCO Walks The Wire

GiveMN: Charitable Fundraising Meets Social Networking

Visi Launches ‘ReliaCloud’ Services to Packed House

Transparency Please, Governor Pawlenty

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