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 [...]
Continue reading...17. September 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...16. August 2009
Before we say farewell to Blogwell, here are some final thoughts from some of the participants:
Continue reading...15. August 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...4. August 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2009
I’ve written before about my involvement with the Conclave , an organization that seeks to educate radio broadcasters. This year I had the pleasure of heading up the planning of the Tech/Interactive Track at this year’s Learning Conference (#clave09), underway right now in Minneapolis. I’m thrilled that I have been able to include many of [...]
Continue reading...9. July 2009
Conference organizer Kane Consulting says that it’s now a “brave new world” in public relations. And to help managers of local businesses and PR practitioners alike better understand how “new hybrid media forms” are changing the game, it’s organized an event that includes a national speaker who’s an expert on the subject. Called “PR 2.0: [...]
Continue reading...29. June 2009
Or at least the social media breakfast capital of the world? It felt like it Friday, as a mob of people began gathering bright and early, with the smell of bacon and eggs wafting above the expansive lawn at Deluxe Corporation’s headquarters in Shoreview, MN. The scene was the 16th consecutive monthly meeting of an [...]
Continue reading...22. June 2009
MIMA’s monthly gathering at the Nicollet Island Pavilion last Wednesday allowed us some great insight into the design and workings of the now fabled use of online and social media in the recent…and successful…campaign by President Barrack Obama. Much has been made, as it should, of how this campaign took advantage of a relatively untapped [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2009
“No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” -Bill Joy, co-founder, Sun Microsystems If you’re in business or lead an organization, you’re undoubtedly aware of the always on, always connected culture of participation online. The growing number of people participating in social networks, with social media and generating their [...]
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1. October 2009
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