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Wired for 2020: Mentoring Our Youth

In a world that is shifting from serial and linear processes (which can be easily outsourced) to one rapidly moving toward higher value being created by those people who can deal with the flood of information and ideas coming at us in parallel by making new associations, any of us who care about our kids [...]

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Herding Your Online Cats

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in 2008, you’re likely aware that social media use is exploding, as are the number of companies and organizations wanting to market to we users. But both our use of the dizzying array of social media services out there, as well as the tools and solutions for companies [...]

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Marketing Innovation: Best Buy vs. Target

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 [...]

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