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Best Buy Challenges You to Remix
Anyone born in 1978, and now in their early thirties, never knew a time when there weren’t mainstream personal computers. For the most part, those who entered this world in the late 1980’s (and are in their twenties like my daughter), haven’t lived in a time when PC’s weren’t in their school or at home, [...]
Continue reading...It Was Cloud Week in Minneapolis, and All the Cool Kids (and Old Guys!) Were There
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
[Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the CloudAve blog.] What a gorgeous spring week it was in Minnesota last week: clear, sunny, even sneaking into the ’70s. The only “clouds” in sight were the proponents and would-be adopters of the latest, new hotness in enterprise computing. Two events, on Wednesday and Saturday, attracted a [...]
Continue reading...Minneapolis Phizzpop Winners & Best Buy Remix at SXSW
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Minnov8’s Phil Wilson grabbed a couple of interviews this evening at South by Southwest (SXSW) with Phizzpop winners Tom O’Neill of SierraBravo and Dave Annis of Zeus Jones…and later with Kevin Matheny, Senior E-business Architect on the Best Buy’s Remix initiative:
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 22
Saturday, January 24, 2009
We strive to deliver a high value podcast at an affordable price (um…that would be free?) and this week’s show is no exception as it’s packed with topics. Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. (Photo credit: Lee Odden (TopRankBlog; Flickr). Joining us on the podcast is a brand new Minnov8 contributor and participant, Gary Koelling, who is Senior Manager, Social [...]
Continue reading...Open for Business: Best Buy’s Social Strategy
Saturday, January 24, 2009
(found via @graemethickins and @garykoelling)
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 20
Saturday, January 10, 2009
On this show, we discuss the MAKE TV debut (MakeTV is a new national series from MAKE magazine, Twin Cities Public Television, and American Public Television), Best Buy buyouts, rumors of StarTribune filing bankruptcy, President-elect Obama’s Broadband Plan, and the antics of our guest, Ed Kohler. Ed is a web strategist working within the real estate industry to [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 19
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Our kickoff podcast for 2009 is a discussion with guest Kevin Matheny, self-described “E-business Architect & Open API guy for Best Buy” and founder of the innovative Best Buy Remix Developer Network effort. Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Our discussion surrounded a variety of topics: - How did the idea to open [...]
Continue reading...Marketing Innovation: Best Buy vs. Target
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Two of the most difficult marketing jobs in Minnesota right now has to be leading local retail giants Target and Best Buy. Although of different scales, Target is about 60% larger than Best Buy, each is facing the same catastrophic pullback in consumer spending that has resulted in each company reporting some of their worst [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 17
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Community strategy, management of the ecosystem and paying attention to social media conversations online is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s an imperative for doing business today, for brand management or for building your own personal brand. Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch,Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson, Garrick Van Buren Connie Bensen is a woman who is completely engaged in [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 16
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Social media and networking is pretty fragmented, and it’s important that Minnesota becomes fully invested in using all of it in an innovative way (e.g., Best Buy), and doing innovative startups like OnePlace (think Twitter in collaboration) and Enleiten (group GTD). Thankfully, we’re starting to see a bunch of new approaches that are allowing all [...]
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
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