Tag Archive | "Twitter"

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #48: Pushbuttons & Voice

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata (Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins are off today). Music by Chuck Willis from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes. Discussed during the show notes: + Topics: - The Pushbutton Web ( http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html ). Is this just a way for people to throw stuff up against the wall and see what [...]

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Minnov8 Gang #46: Addicted to Twitter, Chatter about FanChatter & More

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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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 and BackType (and [...]

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FanChatter Goes to the Valley, Tapped by ‘American Idol’ for Startups: Y Combinator

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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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 [...]

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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 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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Interview with Josh Bernoff of Groundswell

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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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 [...]

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Twouble in Twitterville?

Monday, March 16, 2009

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Do you use Twitter? If you’re one of the current base of Twitter users, now 8 million strong and growing, there’s no question you’re probably on the service and using it for chatting with your friends, connecting to others and widening your social circle, or someone who is viewing it as some sort of channel [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 25

Saturday, February 14, 2009

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This Gang podcast is a short one with a focus on one, key thing startups need and care about: building awareness. You’ve heard us talk many times about how the time of flux we’re living in has created new opportunities and that people are atypically open to listening to better, cheaper, faster or new ways of [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 22

Saturday, January 24, 2009

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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 [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 19

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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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 [...]

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