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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 17

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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.

Hosts: Steve Borsch,Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson, Garrick Van Buren

Connie Bensen is a woman who is completely engaged in the social media world and has turned it into a thought leadership position as well as career. She’s not only connected with other social media leaders who are geographically disbursed around the globe, but she’s also involved representing social media analytics company Techrigy…and all from her home 4.5 hours north of the Twin Cities! Who said outstate Minnesota people aren’t connected and fully engaged in the 21st century communications revolution!

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The Podcast

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Show notes:

+ Book Connie mentioned, “Personality Not Included”

+ Other links mentioned: Brian Brown’s Twitter account (from Ideapark); Graeme’s Twitter account; Fast Company article about “8 Experts Predict How Web 2.0 Will Evolve In 2009“; ComicTwit (and its Twitter account)

+ Connie has several key resources linked to from her home page here…definitely worth reading ’em!

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 16

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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 of us to gather, consolidate and aggregate our social media and network participation, and keep track of all of these disparate channels of ‘conversation’ as well as all of the digital breadcrumbs we’re leaving all over the Web.

Hosts: Steve Borsch,Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson, Garrick Van Buren

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The Podcast

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We’re blogging; doing vlogs; publishing photos in Flickr and sending messages on Twitter and Identi.ca; social bookmarking like Cullect and Delicious; on networks like Facebook and MySpace *and* joining specialty affinity groups like, for instance, SMBMSP.Ning.com.

Flock, the browser for Windows/Mac/Linux, came out to try to provide a one-stop-shop of all of our disparate, browser-based social media and networking participation. Friendfeed was the one of the first well accepted, Web-hosted one. Now there’s PeopleBrowsr. We’re also seeing inter-connections between social networks, blogs, social bookmarking and channels like Twitter: posting to a blog can appear in Facebook and be sent to Twitter; Twitter messages can be posted on Facebook; Cullect can capture feeds instantly.

Without a dozen tabs open in a browser — or using a tool like Fluid or Mozilla Prism to create a bunch of SSB’s (site specific browsers) or building a dashboard in iGoogle or NetVibes — none of us have enough time in the day to keep tabs on what everyone is doing, participating within all of these channels of communication, and ensuring we’re EVEN AWARE of them in order to participate in relevant and important conversations.

In this show, the Gang discusses where we are and some approaches to solving this chaotic (but fun) mess.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 15

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A lively discussion about social media tools, approaches, and a handful of insights about this hot area from the never-bashful-or-lacking-for-opinions Gang.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson, Garrick Van Buren

The term “social media” has many connotations depending upon whom you ask for an opinion or insight about what it covers, what it means, and exactly what sort of ‘media’ comprises it (e.g., blogging, social networking, social bookmarks, video sharing, et al).

We certainly don’t try to make this show a primer or any sort of comprehensive overview of the social media space, but we’re each in-the-game using several forms of it, advising clients and others on its use, and being surprisingly connected with most of the other thought leaders in social media nationally, so we’re exposed to quite a bit and cover alot of ground in this podcast.

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The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 52:33 — 30.5MB)

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Show notes:

+ Social Media Breakfast who brought in Jeff Pulver for this month’s meeting

+ Pistachio Consulting (Laura Fitton) who published “Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison” (PDF or view full screen here at Scribed)

+ Tools: TubeMogul; Ping.fm; OnePlace’ new “Twitter-like” feature addition; Delicious and Cullect; Tweetie for the iPhone (iTunes URL); Analytics: Collective Intellect; Radian6; Google Analytics add-ons like these hacks and tips and this Social Media Metrics Greasemonkey Plugin For Google Analytics

+ Mentions: Motrin Moms controversy; Tim O’Reilly‘s Twitter stream and, curiously, the fact that his archive page doesn’t save or reference his tweets; Google Friend Connect

+ Other: “A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media” by Jeremiah Oywang and a “Groundswell” slideshow, with great info, here (and there are other ‘Related Slideshows’ worth viewing on this page.

+ The final report has been released and it’s very enlightening if you’re involved in social media in any way. “Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. (via Danah Boyd)

  • Two page summary (PDF)
  • White Paper – Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (PDF)
  • Article here in The New York Times and many others.

Social Media Breakfast at Best Buy

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The Twin Cities Social Media Breakfast group met today at Best Buy Headquarters to connect about social media and to hear from our hosts who’ve created Blueshirtnation, Giftag and something we hadn’t heard about before, Spy (video of Best Buy’s Spy in the lobby of Best Buy HQ is after the jump).

Social Media Breakfast’s Rick Mahn was the emcee and did a great job keeping it moving. While you can read many of the tweets from today here and draw some conclusions, suffice to say that Best Buy is doing one thing in social media and doing it well: they’re on the field and playing the game.

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