Tag Archive | "Twitter"

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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What Can We Learn from the Minneapolis Top 100 Twitterers List?

Monday, December 15, 2008

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For those of you not yet on Twitter — and aren’t you feeling so smug you’re not wasting as much time as the rest of us? — you’re likely not aware there’s a site called Twitterholic, which ranks the popularity of Twitter users by number of followers.  Actually, despite what non-Twitter users may think, this [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 17

Saturday, December 13, 2008

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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 [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 16

Sunday, December 7, 2008

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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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Minnesota Microblogging

Monday, October 20, 2008

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Every day there seems to be an uptick in the number of people who are online and interested in connecting with friends, family, colleagues or others where even a digital relationship might end up as meaningful. The continued growth of social networks is the strongest indicator of that trend, but the explosion of microblogging is [...]

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MIMA Summit Packs The Depot

Friday, October 3, 2008

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As practically every man, woman, and child in the Twin Cities must know by now, the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) held its annual conference Wednesday, themed “Feed“. These folks are marketers — they know how to hype, as they’ve been telling us for what seems weeks now that the event was sold out.  Prior to [...]

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