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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 30

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This week’s show is a brief discussion about South by Southwest (SXSW), the freemium model discussion with Guy Kawasaki interviewing Wired’s Chris Anderson held the last day of the event, and a live show Steve Borsch ran yesterday on Mogulus for client TEL.A.VISION.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott & Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).

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The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 34:59 — 20.3MB)

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Unsummit Leader Interviews

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On March 7th was the Unsummit. Phil Wilson, with Brian Stemmler on camera, interviewed the leaders of the Unsummit. Brian carved out time to do a great job on the video editing of this piece and we bring that to you now:

Zeus Jones & Sierra Bravo Win Phizzpop Final

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Kudos to the teams at Zeus Jones & Sierra Bravo for taking the finals at Phizzpop at South by Southwest (SXSW). Stiff competition from top designers in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Austin (TX) and San Francisco…but they nailed it.

The PhizzPop Design Challenge is a web design and development competition. This year PhizzPop expanded from in-person agency challenges to include an online competition for web professionals.

The PhizzPop Tour stopped in seven cities across the U.S. This is the design event of the year — a prestigious design competition combined with a social gathering for top web professionals, brands, designers and developers. You can learn more at the PhizzPop site here.

Two videos below: the Zeus Jones/Sierra Bravo winning pitch…and an interview Minnov8’s Phil Wilson did with Christian Erickson, partner in Zeus Jones and the guy that was on stage pitching the combined team’s work to win the event.

Twouble in Twitterville?

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twoubleDo 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 of messaging distribution for your business and sending out ‘tweets’ that are all about you and what you offer.

If you’re not yet on board and using it, you’d have to be in some remote cabin in the wilderness to not have heard of it and been aware of its use during the presidential campaign, on CNN, spoofed on the Daily Show or used by members of Congress on their Blackberries during President Obama’s recent speech to they and the nation.

At the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference going on this week — the place where Twitter first hit the scene in March of 2007 — Twitter has, once again, been one of the primary conduits of communication for festival-goers as well as those in the greater Twitterville user community. Even companies like PepsiCo, in an apparent desire to capitalize upon the in-crowd’s use of this fun service, paid for a “PepsiCo Zeitgeist” application that tracks tweets that people insert with the #sxsw “hashtag” (an identifier so the message can easily be found by others searching with that tag) and displays them in fun and unique ways.

But there’s twouble in Twitterville at SXSW and from that comes a note of caution and advice if you’re planning on leveraging Twitter personally, professionally or as an organization.  …  [Read More…]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 29

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m8-sxswThis week’s show is “All About South by Southwest (SXSW)” with our Minnov8 Gang member, Phil Wilson, direct from the Podcast Pavilion in Austin, TX.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins & Phil Wilson from SXSW.

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The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 30:45 — 17.8MB)

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Show notes:

+ Woody Allen’s movie “Sleeper” and his most important futuristic vision, the “Orgasmatron”
+ Zappos
+ iPhone AT&T problem
+ A post about a fabulous javascript app showing near real-time Twitter stuff from SXSW
+ Phil is at SXSW on behalf of Localtone Systems and his startup, LocaltoneRadio.

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 28

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unsummit-unpanelThree of the Gang were at the Unsummit (the fourth, Graeme Thickins, is still out in California after doing DEMO ’09…check out his phenomenal coverage of DEMO in his audio interviews here).

Unsummit is an unconference held Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the fabulous facility for meetings housed within the Minneapolis Central Library in downtown Minneapolis. One of us (Steve Borsch) was on the “Unpanel” session with Unsummit organizers Don Ball and Meg Canada, kickstarting a discussion on, “How can we use creativity + collaboration to beat the economic downturn.” Introduction of the panel done by Mykl Roventine, co-organizer of the Unsummit.

This week’s Gang podcast is a recording of that panel.

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The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 37:15 — 21.3MB)

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UnSummit: You Gotta Go…

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unsummitlogoThe UnSummit is tomorrow (Saturday, March 7th) and the Minnov8 Gang will be there (all but Graeme Thickins who was at DEMO and still in California). It’s not too late! You can sign up and go and besides, it’s sunny and 45 degrees today but will be cloudy and overcast (and only 35 degrees) tomorrow. All you’ll do on a Saturday is stay inside and fix stuff or go shopping…what fun is that?

Date & Time

Saturday, March 7
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Happy hour afterward at moto-i )

Location

The Minneapolis Central Library. Visit the Location page to view/edit directions.

Register now

Go to the Attendees page and add your name and contact info.