Tag Archive | "Best Buy"

Steve Bendt Interview: A Chat About Windows 7 Social Media and Life at Microsoft

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Two of the Minnov8 Gang took the opportunity this week to get together with former Twin Citian Steve Bendt.  As you’ll recall, Steve had been a senior social media manager at Best Buy, and a cofounder of its Blue Shirt Nation employee social network, but left earlier this year for a new opportunity with Microsoft [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 58: Defragging Defrag & Other ‘Net Stuff

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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After our week hiatus, the Minnov8 Gang is back at it with a podcast covering Graeme Thickins’ trip to the DeFrag conference and his liveblogging of it. After that we discuss local events (e.g., Minnebar), WCCO, Wordpress and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music by blues singer Candy Kayne [...]

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Social Media Success: How About a Little Twelp?

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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I’ve recently started a quest; Find social media success stories that have nothing to do with Motrin Moms or Domino’s Pizza. Face it, though these are interesting examples of the importance of listening and reacting to the conversation,these examples are just plain old! By the way, if you’re doing a presentation on social media and [...]

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Best Buy’s mIQ Beats Microsoft’s MyPhone At It’s Own Game

Friday, October 16, 2009

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As mobile phones have become more powerful the need to access and backup information on them has increased. One way to do this is to mesh your phone’s operating system on a central server as pioneered by Danger’s Sidekick and emulated by Google’s Android and Palm’s WebOS. If something happens on the phone, it’s automatically [...]

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

Thursday, October 8, 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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Minnov8 Gang #43: Tech Stuff & Mobile Trends

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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For half of the show, the Gang discusses several tech topics and then welcomes Lisa Foote, CEO/cofounder of Kwingo.net, the mobile solutions company here in the Twin Cities, to talk about “Mobile Trends to Watch“, a key trend since the I.T. consulting and analyst firm, Gartner, predicts that in 2012, smartphone sales will reach over [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast from Savage Depot

Friday, July 10, 2009

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We talk Google Chrome OS, Best Buy’s Sr. Director of Emerging Media job posting now on their IdeaX site, and much more. Recorded at the Savage Depot coffee shop, a fabulous coffee, wine and food spot (with *really* fast wifi, fun historical photos and an aesthetically pleasing spot) alongside Hwy 13 in Savage, MN (Note: [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 41: What if George had an iPhone?

Friday, July 3, 2009

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On this week’s show — done one day before our usual Saturday recording due to the 4th of July — we talk about the Social Media Breakfast event and a host of other interesting tech topics. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Discussed during the show notes: + Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP) [...]

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Best Buy at Google I/O

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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Best Buy’s Ben Hedrington and Curtis Thompson were out at Google I/O (Google’s developer conference held May 27 -- 28, 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco) and were grabbed on the floor at “The Developer Sandbox” to briefly describe how Best Buy is leveraging the Google App Engine. Google describes the Sandbox: “The Developer Sandbox [...]

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Best Buy CMO on the Cluetrain

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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Interesting to see how Best Buy CMO, Barry Judge, tells the story of how Best Buy’s marketing capability talks (and listens) to its customers. Can you say, “Barry’s on the Cluetrain?” Check out his blog too.

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