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 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 8, 2009
On this week’s show we talk about Twitter being down and how people realized they are social media addicts, FanChatter, controversy over iPhone apps being rejected and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Discussed during the show: + Twitter down (and Dragnet’s “Blue Boy” LSD episode); FanChatter; Blog comment addition vendors: Echo [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
Here’s a story many in Minnesota have been waiting to hear — including several of you out there in the local developer and ad communities who knew something was up. Yes, our friends at Minneapolis startup FanChatter have finally gone public with what they’ve been doing for the past four months. FanChatter is a site [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 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...Monday, April 6, 2009
A group of Star-Tribune employees have launched a new campaign aimed at engaging the community to come up with new ways to save the bankrupt newspaper. What I find most innovative with the ‘Save The Strib’ effort is the use of social media to spread the word via their blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 26, 2009
Groundswell is my playbook for understanding social media and how it integrates with people and business. In it, co-Author Josh Bernoff, provides frameworks for understanding social media and best practices from proven exercises, like Best Buy’s Blue Shirt Nation. Groundswell defines the POST method, introduces the concept of technographics, and outlines the varying levels of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
Any business today can’t function without technology like a telephone, fax machine or email. But when you think about how relatively unchanged office work was from the earliest part of the last century until the advent of personal computers in the late 1970′s, much of the technology used in offices evolved incrementally. In less than [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 31, 2009
This Gang podcast is called “Silver Linings,” and we focus on good news, where your possibilities reside, how to create a different mindset and attitude about your current situation…and what action we all can take to move forward!! One favorite meme about our current situation discussed is, “the world is undergoing an economic reboot”. In [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
For Minnesotans interested in starting up or expanding within the internet space in these challenging economic times, solid financial sector analysis is often difficult to obtain. For anyone who has pitched their idea, concept or business plan, it’s clear how important it is to put oneself in the shoes of investors, venture capitalists and banks [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
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