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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 55: The Connected & Social Library

17. October 2009

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Libraries used to be places to go solely to find information and knowledge in containers called “books” that were comprised of “atoms” and organized by Melvil Dewey’s cool Decimal System, but increasingly library systems are morphing in to places to get connected online where patrons can find their information and knowledge in “bits” while interacting [...]

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mIQ: Best Buy’s Cloud-based Sync & Backup

8. October 2009

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Vendors like Apple and Google recognize that the cloud is central to the mobile experience. Without the ability to access ones data, sync to the desktop, laptop netbook (and soon, a tablet?) with our mobile smartphones whether we’re stationary or mobile, our digital life is fraught with nothing but frustration. The center of the action in [...]

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Blogwell Minneapolis Videos & Presos Now Available

6. October 2009

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This just in from our pals at Gaspedal in Chicago (the group who also runs the Social Media Business Council): The August 13, 2009 Blogwell event held at General Mills (and covered here buy Minnov8 in our liveblog) videos, presentations and Gaspedal liveblog/per event are up on this page. For those of you who attended yesterday’s [...]

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A Recap of MIMA Summit 2009

6. October 2009

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Yesterday was the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit 2009 called “Migrate” and it was not only incredibly well done, but there were over 1,000 attendees, the largest turnout for an event of this type I’ve yet seen in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Minnov8 team was there with a booth and a plan to liveblog the event, [...]

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MIMA Summit Goes Gadget Happy

1. October 2009

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No doubt, the Minnov8 Gang is stoked about the upcoming MIMA Summit this Monday. We plan on our usual “no holds barred” live coverage complete with live blogging, video, and photos. A practice that’s…well…pretty geeky. However, we are not alone. The MIMA folks and Jennifer Kane Consulting, the people that brought you “little Seth”, are giving [...]

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SMCpros: Building a Business Around Social Media

17. September 2009

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While we recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the largest network in the world, where does the dawn of “social media” place the web on a maturation curve? As a thought experiment, let’s suppose the web submitted to the infamous real age test and it was discovered to be considerably younger than its calendar age suggests.  If human [...]

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Closing Thoughts From BlogWell

16. August 2009

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Before we say farewell to Blogwell, here are some final thoughts from some of the participants:

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast #47: Blogwell & Social Media

15. August 2009

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We really enjoyed ourselves at General Mills HQ (who were terrific hosts, by the way) for the BlogWell event Thursday and it comprised the lion’s share of our podcast today, along with social media in general. We discuss the event, the interviews we held (and we were stunned by the strong corporate representation), the tool we [...]

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ScribbleLive: An Amazing Liveblogging Engine

15. August 2009

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Last Thursday at BlogWell held at General Mills headquarters, the Minnov8 Gang used a tool that I had stumbled across a couple of days earlier: ScribbleLive. While not a Minnesota startup, they’ve so nailed the sweet spot of what’s needed in today’s liveblogging–Twitter integration, turning http’s in to links, embed codes in to instant presenting [...]

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A Joint Podcast with Social Media Breakfast

4. August 2009

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Following the recent Social Media Breakfast on Friday Brad Bellaver gathered a group on the patio at Vic’s for a rather unique conversation and podcast. We had a chance to chat about the meeting and social media in general. Joining Brad and those of us from Minnov8 were founder of the Social Media Breakfast concept [...]

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