This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Opening & closing music is “Fight the Start” by the Kilians (article; website) a German band, part of the SXSW music artist showcase.

Discussed During the Show:

+ SXSW music page: http://2010.sxsw.com/music and the two torrents (5GB total) of all the mp3’s on the SXSW website showcasing artists

+ Rick’s cohort on their driving adventure to Austin: Albert Maruggi (@albertmaruggi; blog; podcast)

+ Federal Communications Commission Broadband Plan (includes discussed broadband speed test) and its submission to Congress on 3/16/10 (NYTimes article; FCC broadband blog).

Minnov8 Gang 70: Talking w/Meg Canada & Rick Mahn from SXSWi is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

In the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Humphrey Bogart’s character Dobbs, and two other gringos, embark in to Mexico to find gold in the Sierra Madres, an area in great flux and riddled with banditos, but policed by the Federales. In one of the signature lines in the movie the banditos, trying to convince Dobbs and his cronies that they’re Federales, say, “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!“ (usually misquoted as “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!“). There are several moral and philosophical questions in the movie and Dobbs dies, the banditos are killed by the Federales, the gold is lost and thus the analogy might as clear as mud: chasing opportunities won’t be easy but they’re out there; barriers and obstacles (and bandits) stand in your way; but we thought exploring opportunistic thoughts in this podcast was worthwhile.

Special Guest: For part of the podcast, Meg Canada joins us to talk about libraries, the iPad and more. Meg is a senior librarian for Web Services and Training at Hennepin County Library and currently coordinates public training and  social media efforts for the library. She volunteers helping with the Unsummit, recently presented at MinneWebCon, and is a regular contributor to Social Media Breakfast.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Opening & closing music is “Santa Maria” by Will Kriski from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes.

Discussed during the show:

+ Past Events: CloudCampMSP (see Minnov8’s coverage here); IgniteMPLS; Social Media Breakfast;

+ Upcoming Events: Mobile March; MIMA; DEMO; SxSWi; MinneWebCon

+ Mobile: MixMobi; Wordpress mobile plugins (Mobile Edition; WPTouch); Square (mobile commerce)

+ Devices: Apple iPad; Microsoft Courier; Dell Slate

+ Other: Google pagerank to require speedier websites?; Hacker News.

Minnov8 Gang 69: “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

We also discuss the Flash and iPad/iPhone controversy, Comcast bandwidth metering, upcoming events and more.

This Week’s Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week)
Music by The Birdinumnums and the tune is “Thirteen Steps”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Cloud Computing links:
  • Google backup articles from Lifehacker, Webmonkey, Labnol
  • Virtual container company: Jumpbox
  • Funny take from “Shouts from the Abyss” called, “The Great Wordpress Outage of 2010“
  • Comcast Bandwidth Metering in the Twin Cities
  • Upcoming Event: CloudcampMSP
• Flash and the iPad/iPhone controversy:
  • New York Times article about no Flash on the iPad
  • Steve’s post about a personal Flash video test
  • Article about Adobe blocking HTML5 specification from supporting Flash
  • AppleInsider’s post entitled, “Inside Apple’s iPad: Adobe Flash“. It’s a three page article so be sure to read all the pages
  • An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash
• Other links:
  • Doc Searls (@docsearls)
  • Maverick Beach south of San Francisco and this awesome video of a surfer
  • Events:
    • MIMA’s March soiree at the Fine Line
    • Mobile March
    • Overnight Website Challenge
    • MinneWebCon

Minnov8 Gang 68: Falling Through the Cloud? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme is off this week)
Music by Mean Gene Kelton and the Diehards and the tune is “Running from the Law”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley.

+ Google Buzz
+ Greg Litman (WCCO News & Sports producer) post on Arik Hanson’s blog
+ Juicy Lucy controversy
+ Phil’s video interview with Chris Brogan: “Catching Up With Chris”
+ Garrick Van Buren’s Cullect.com
+ Steve’s post about Where are you paying attention?
+ Sarah Lacy controversy at SXSW & Danah Boyd’s Web 2.0 Expo speech and Twitter debacle
+ Craig Neal from Heartland Circle and his Art of Convening
+ Steve’s post about MSNBC’s awesome Super Tuesday primary coverage
+ The perfect valentine for social media folks to their sweetie: a “broquet” (a bacon bouquet)
+ What’s up with St. Valentine and how did we get to the point of giving cards, flowers and chocolate? (bonus link: History of Valentine’s Day)

Minnov8 Gang 67: Is Google Buzz a Taser or Cupid’s Arrow? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

W3i was marketing apps when apps weren’t even cool and their founding is a great story. In 2000, the three Weber brothers (Ryan, Aaron and Rob) discovered the power of free and launched Freeze.com. Along with their team, they developed applications to satisfy users’ pent up demand for free content while pioneering new revenue models to spread the development and marketing costs across millions of installations — over 250 million to date.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (and thanks to Phil for tossing out the meme “flat is the new up” on the podcast!)
Music by Josh Woodward and the tune is “Stickybee”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley.

Discussed during the show notes:

Minnov8 Gang 66: Flat Is The New Up? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

As you probably already know, Julio writes a Tech Test Drive column about gadgets, apps and social media (among other things). He is the author of Twitter Means Business, one of the first books about Twitter. He is also a sometime co-host of the Minnov8 Gang podcast (and will join us this Saturday to discuss this Apple event in more detail) and focuses his commentary on tech trends. See his Posterous geekstream. Contact him by e-mail or follow him on Twitter.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Duane Andrews and the tune is “Mr. Butler”.

Discussed during the show notes:

+ Like to see the iPad Nano?
+ Mary Meeker’s Web 2.0 Summit presentation (PDF) & we referred to slide #38
+ Video of Walt Mossberg at the iPad launch, a portion of which he’s talking with Steve Jobs
+ Bill Heyman of Minnesota-based Codemorphic (mobile app developers) post on the iPad
+ Steve Borsch’s article on MinnPost about the iPad & his Apple A4 chip post and another post on Apple opening up VoIP
+ Leo Laporte head of TWiT and tech journalist Natali Del Conte
+ Stanza was acquired in 2009 by Amazon & The Wall Street Journal’s take on Apple vs. Amazon
+ Hitler’s response to the iPad

Minnov8 Gang Podcast 65: Talking the Apple iPad is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

In a post yesterday entitled, “Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk“, tech recruiter Paul DeBettignies (MNHeadhunter) wrote a rant about what’s wrong and right about efforts within Minnesota to connect us all. With over 30 tweets and 50 comments since last night — most of which had strong opinions and great ideas — Paul’s rant clearly hit a nerve. In today’s podcast we continue the conversation and try to come up with some ideas and answers as we explore this topic in more depth.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by DJ ERIC ILL and the tune is, “8mm – Stunning remix by DJ Eric Ill and Scott Orlans”.

Discussed during the show:

+ Minnesota angel investment tax credit
+ “Film board-like” commission (e.g., MN Film & TV)
+ MN Cup
+ Mobile March at: mobilemarchtc.com

Minnov8 Gang 64: “Less Talk, More Walk” is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Hosts: This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Midnight Music Quartet and the tune is, “Sweet Lorraine”.

About George Reese (@GeorgeReese):  George Reese is the founder of two Minneapolis-based companies, enStratus Networks LLC (maker of high-end cloud infrastructure management tools) and Valtira LLC (maker of the Valtira Online Marketing Platform). Over the past 15 years, George has authored a number of technology books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud Application Architectures.

Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of transactional web applications in the cloud.

George holds a BA in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife Monique and his daughters Kyra and Lindsey.

Discussed during the show notes:

• CloudCamp Minneapolis 2 on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at Microsoft office in Bloomington, MN.
• Visi’s Reliacloud
• Jumpbox
• Dasein Cloud and OCCI
• Apple data center in North Carolina
• ProgrammableWeb
• Apps.gov
• Alvenda.

Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickin, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata.

Discussed during the show:

• Backupify
  
• Google Nexus One
  
• Ecommerce & credit card terminals: Minnesota’s Alvenda; Square; Innerfence
  
• Netbook & mobile device operating systems (e.g., Android, ChromeOS (video; signup), Jolicloud)
• BuzzMachine: “Content farms v. curating farmers“
• Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink and a good article in Fast Company
• Julio’s Book “Twitter means Business: How Microblogging can Help or Hurt your Company“
• Newton eMate
• Memetrackers: TechMeme & Blogrunner
  
• “Temporary Workers and the 21st Century Economy – The surge in temp hiring is not a sign of a malfunctioning economy. It is the face of the future.”
• The Rise of the Brand Journalist: “An open letter to journalists: You have an amazing career opportunity on the Dark Side“
• Co-working: “Office (and Beanbag) Sharing Among Strangers“
• Much better year coming for startups raising VC: “After Dry Year, Start-Ups Are Poised to Get Cash“

Opening music by DanielReal2K and their song “Twilight” and closing music from 46Bliss and their song “8 O’Clock Train – PKP Express Remix”. Both from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes.

Minnov8 Gang 62: Our 2010 Predictions is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Straight 8’s and the tune is, “Ann Bowman”

Discussed during the show:

• StarTribune article on Minnesota venture capital
• Don Ball’s post An Embarrassment of Hidden Talent about impressions from the recent MIMA holiday party
• Zipnosis
• Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Market report, recapped nicely in this post by ReadWriteWeb (Bonus: this Forbes article on the “no brainer” investment potential in mobile
• Visi’s ReliaCloud and the comparison
• Others mentioned during the cloud computing discussion: Enstratus; Jumpbox; and Subversion used by Tim Elliott with his various installations
• Mobile discussion included MotherApp; 100,000 iPhone apps post by Steve; WebDesignerDepot post on 40 Awesome iPhone Application Websites; publisher O’Reilly & Associates Best iPhone Apps website.

Minnov8 Gang 61: Mobile & the Groovy Kids is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by Endlouz and the tune is, “Bad Advice” (Disclaimer: This was NOT chosen as an indictment on the commentary by the Gang!)

Discussed during the show:

+ Clove (by Spice Apps)
+ Analyst Noise on the Apple Tablet
+ IDC predictions for 2010
+ Minnebar
+ Mary Meeker’s Internet presentation at Web 2.0 Summit (video)
+ Jolicloud, Google Chrome OS
+ Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP)
+ Don Ball and his new collaboration workspace concept (announcement; pictures; pricing)
+ Overnight Website Challenge (please note the AWESOME faux dot matrix printer feed on the page…nice job nerds!)
+ Chuck Olsen (@Chuckumentary) in Copenhagen and here is TheUptake
+ 91st PGA Tournament at Hazeltine in Chaska and hundreds of Tiger Woods jokes.

Minnov8 Gang 60: Staying Ahead of the Storm in 2010 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Minnov8 Gang 59: Live from Minnebar is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music by blues singer Candy Kayne and the tune is, “I’m a bad, bad girl.”

Discussed during the show notes:

+ WCCO’s “The Wire” & their iPhone app by DoApp and Inergize Digital (iTunes link; search in Android store for “WCCO”; or use mobile website at m.wcco.com)

+ Wordpress Users Group meeting on December 3rd at 6:30pm

+ Minnebar at Best Buy HQ (sold out) and the sessions

+ Google buys Gizmo5; Toktumi; Google page speed article; Newsy

+ Android and GoogleChromeOS which, by the way, rumor has it will launch within a week.

Minnov8 Gang 58: Defragging Defrag & Other ‘Net Stuff is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Panel members:

• Jason DeRusha (@DeRushaJ), investigative reporter, WCCO-TV
• David Brauer (@dbrauer), media reporter, MinnPost.com
• Gene Rebeck (@generebeck), senior editor, Twin Cities Business Magazine
• Julia Schrenkler (@juliaschrenkler), interactive producer, Minnesota Public Radio
• Dirk DeYoung (@ddeyoung), editor, Business Journal

We were fortunate that the SMBMSP facility host, Summit Brewing Company, provided us with a boardroom to record in after the panel discussion and, though the room had a bit of an echo, we were able to get in a solid podcast with Julio and David Brauer joining us for a continuation of the discussion about journalism and social media.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast 57: Journalism & Social Media is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Libraries used to be places to go solely to find information and knowledge in containers called “books” that were comprised of “atoms” and organized by Melvil Dewey’s cool Decimal System, but increasingly library systems are morphing in to places to get connected online where patrons can find their information and knowledge in “bits” while interacting with the library in an increasingly virtual and — most intriguingly in today’s participation culture — in an online and interactively social way.

The Gang had a chance to invite Meg Canada on the podcast to talk about the 21st century library, what our biggest Minnesota library system is doing (and what she’s driving within it) to embrace new realities that are internet-centric and deliver a surprising array of services you may not know even exist. Meg has long impressed us with how much she “gets it” with respect to new media and social technologies, but have been quite delighted to see how much of her energy is invested in the social and internet community in Minnesota and the role she plays in nurturing it along with good humor and an eagerness to serve others.

Meg is a senior librarian for Web Services and Training at Hennepin County Library and currently coordinates public training and social media efforts for the library. She volunteers helping with the Unsummit, recently presented at MinneWebCon, and is a regular contributor to Social Media Breakfast. Had we known beforehand that she also sings regularly with the Twin Cities chapter of TechKaraoke, we would’ve had her croak out an Etta James tune or something. We’ll get her on another podcast soon and have her sing.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Opening & closing music is “38 Special” by Charlie Musselwhite (iTunes link) from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes.

Discussed during the show:

+ Wired article, “YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net”

+ Libraries & Broadband by Ann Treacy on the Blandin on Broadband blog

+ Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) on Twitter

+ Hennepin County Library (HCL) and their services; Bookspace, a social site for HCL book lovers; eBooks and downloadable audio books and videos; and a remarkably easy to use, searchable database of all events and classes in the HCL system; HCL on Twitter.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast 55: The Connected & Social Library is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

The Minnov8 Gang was delighted to report on, and be a part of, the UnSummit ‘09 unconference, held today at the incredible facility at the Hennepin County Central Library in downtown Minneapolis. Hats off to Meg Canada, Don Ball and Mykl Roventine — as well as all of the sponsors — who made it such a great event. We did some light liveblogging which you can see on this page.

We were pleased to have a slot to record our first live version of the Minnov8 Gang podcast. Hosts today were Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is up north searching for colder weather, we presume).

Minnov8 Gang Podcast 54: Live from #UnSummit ‘09 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

(Steve Note: I apologize for the atypically crappy audio quality on this week’s show. Recorded at home where we just remodeled our lower level, it turns out that (unbeknownst to me) the electrician had re-routed my cable connection through three splitters and my 16mbps download speed dropped to 700kbps, barely enough to record a group podcast. In turn, Skype also dumbed its quality down to manage the paltry bandwidth).

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Music by Bob Kirkpatrick from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes.

Discussed during the show:

- Radian6

- Microsoft “Looking Glass”

- Minnov8’s liveblogging of MIMA ‘09

- iCentera and HeadMix

Minnov8 Gang #53: A Chat with Mark Kurtz is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This week saw Graeme Thickins liveblogging DEMO Fall 2009, Tim Elliott off to California on client adventures, while Phil Wilson and Steve Borsch attended the Social Media Breakfast #19.

In between all of this activity, Graeme and Steve covered the 6th Annual RAIN Makers Conference put on by RAIN Source Capital. The RAIN Makers is a multi-state network of RAIN® funds that works with angel investors who are interested in supporting growing companies. RAIN Source® helps bring together like-minded angel investors to form individual RAIN funds ~ and then provides these funds with a process for due diligence, legal templates, management support, access to deal flow and other resources.

These RAIN funds share expertise, deals and experience between and among RAIN Source Capital’s multi-state network to support growing companies throughout the area. The conference is a chance to get together and look at startups who might be good candidates for syndicated investments shared within the RAIN group as well as to discuss pertinent items that affect all the funds participating in the RAIN network.

Graeme starts off with an interview with RAIN principal Brian Johnson, and then he and Steve interview four up-n-comers showcasing their products to the investors in attendance:

• Flyspy
• Ntractive
• HomeStream (temporary site)
• Declarix

DISCLAIMER: Though she’s an avid listener to the podcast, the woman in the photo above is delighted the economy is turning around and is NOT gazing in awe at, or worshipping, the Minnov8 Gang.

Minnov8 Gang 52: It’s RAINing Money! is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Discussed during the show:

• Strib/WCCO comparison and Tim’s pointing out how the Pioneer Press also “gets it” and shows that at their TwinCities.com site which has an extensive set of capabilities to email and print as well as a “Bookmark & Share” link to sites and services like Facebook, Google Reader, Twitter, Friendfeed, Delicious and more
• Alvenda: winner of the Minnesota Cup’s Breakthrough Business Idea
• Facebook Lite
• Twitter’s new Terms of Service
• UofMN New Media Research event Friday, Sept 18th
• Microsoft Office online and the new 2010 beta
• Carbonite and CrashPlan
• ComicTwit

Upcoming Events with Minnov8 Media Coverage:

• RAINMAKER CONFERENCE
• VISI Cloud Vision 2009 event
• MIMA Summit (which will include the fall MinneDemo).

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #51: Cloud and the Crowd is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is on assignment shooting video for the upcoming MIMA Summit).

Discussed during the show:

+ The winners in each category at the Minnesota Cup:
- Bio: Pursuit Vascular
- Green: Packet Power
- Social: Rural Renewable Energy Alliance
- HiTech: Alvenda
- General: Drazil Juice
- Student: ManCave

+ Minnesota Cup Review Board mentioned on the podcast is here

+ Graeme’s Flickr photoset from the MNCup event

+ RAIN Makers Conference, 9/23-24

+ MIMA Summit, October 5th

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #50: A Chat with MNCup’s Dan Mallin is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

The man in front in the photo above is my maternal great grandfather, a man I never knew but heard stories about while growing up. He was apparently an incredibly strong and tough guy who ran a blacksmith shop in Tioga, North Dakota, raised eight kids with my great grandma, and was known widely for being able to toss anvils great distances (probably loads of fun in Tioga back then).

This photo, by the way, was taken by an early technology adopter guy out of Minot, ND in the early 1890’s who’d embraced this new thing called “photography”.

When I think about the sort of labor people of this generation had to go through to eke out a living, keep food on the table, stave off illness, keep a house up with clothes washed and food canned for an upcoming North Dakota winter in a barren, flat land…THAT is the sort of labor worth celebrating and is what I sometimes think about when I’m doing my “knowledge work” every day and getting ready for the evening Eden Prairie anvil tossing competition.  ;-)

Have a great weekend.

Minnov8 Gang Celebrates Labor is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Discussed during the show notes:

+ Social Media Breakfast-Minneapolis St. Paul (SMBMSP) and these items: Julio’s image gallery and his use of PicPosterous; Graeme’s video; Hart Van Denburg’s article in City Pages

+ Apple’s Snow Leopard: Steve’s experience post; getting ready for the upgrade using Onyx; The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg review; the fabulous screencast creation tool that both Phil and Steve use called Screenflow

+ Screensharing: Adobe Reader 9; Mikogo; Dim-Dim; Skype screensharing

+ Other: HTML 5 article; Forrester analysts start own firm; Microsoft’s Office.com; Free Agent Nation by Dan Pink; Rainmaker’s Conference; MIMA Summit; Steve’s blog for Scholastic, the K-12 publisher.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #49: MN State Fair & Snowy Leopard is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Discussed during the show notes:

+ The Pushbutton Web, a concept article by Anil Dash about a ”publish once, distribute everywhere” model:

• Steve Borsch talked about this at his SMBMSP #16 preso at Deluxe)
• Services: Posterous, PixelPipe
• Wordpress plugins & themes like tWPter — along with hemes appearing like P2 that turns your WordPress blog into a Twitter-like tool
• Announcement by Typepad that they’re enabling microblogging
• PubSubHubBub at Google
• Google Insights, Trends & Alerts

+ Upcoming Microsoft retail stores and that they’re hiring for them. Also, the Gizmodo ‘leak’ of a presentation/plan done for Microsoft on the store concept

+ Google Voice, Apple & AT&T controversy with the Federal Communications Commission asking for clarification on Apple disallowing Google Voice in the iPhone App Store. Apple’s, Google’s and AT&T’s respective responses.

+ MIMA Summit; and the Social Media Breakfast (SMBMSP) next week at the State Fair.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #48: Pushbuttons & Voice is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

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 BackType Connect for Wordpress); Minnesota startups BusinessCard2 and Extendr as well as Retaggr

+ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) looking in to Google’s Eric Schmidt on Apple’s board (now potentially a moot point)

+ Pending Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceedings regarding wireless open access and handset exclusivity are in motion, and as part of this the FCC requested more information from the Google Voice app rejection by Apple (good overview of the controversy–and Apple’s overall app rejection policy–in this BusinessWeek article)

• FCC’s letter to Apple
• FCC’s letter to AT&T
• FCC’s letter to Google

+ HTML 5 and the open source video codec rejection; Google acquiring On2 and conjecture it was a strategic move to open source On2’s codec, move away from Flash (and minimize the possibility Adobe could make it a ubiquitous application platform as well as continuing to extend its reach as one for video) and not require licensing H.264

+ The MiFi device and the Wired article referred to by Tim; Comcast getting in to wireless broadband

+ “Social Media on a Stick“: Social Media Breakfast, Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP) is meeting at the State Fair

+ Blogwell is next week! This is positioned as a must-attend event for anyone interested in corporate social media use

+ Evocam: Steve’s geek fun this weekend.

Minnov8 Gang #46: Addicted to Twitter, Chatter about FanChatter & More is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Afterwards, we headed out to the deck to record our M8 Gang podcast and were joined by Meg and then Bryan Person, the founder of the national Social Media Breakfast group. Added to this podcast were three interviews at the end which Graeme Thickins had recorded before the event began. Your hosts for this podcast are the typical cast of characters: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Show Notes:

+ Minneapolis/St. Paul Wordpress Users Group

+ Here’s a quick iPhone 3GS video of the venue:

Minnov8 Gang @ Social Media Breakfast #17 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. (Note: I apologize for the unfortunate ‘clicks’ heard in Lisa’s audio which were indeterminate)

Discussed During the Show Notes:

+ The music was provided by the Podsafe Music Network, the song is PJ style Blues by artist AjT, a 39 year old french geek and Apple lover.

+ Crunchpad and Mike Arrington on Charlie Rose

+ Twitter 101 and how Ashton Kutcher has come out about the fact that “Twitter Will Change Media”

+ Best Buy:

• Twelpforce: the Twitter account and a Techcrunch article
• The Twitter fight between Doug Beacham & Best Buy CMO, Barry Judge (and social media thought leader, Chris Brogan, has his own take on it here)
• Best Buy Social Media Director job that was crowdsourced and an update #2 on it here

+ The iPod as a multi-function device (can tie Touch to local app devs)

+  BlogWell on August 13th at General Mills (get Minnov8 discount code in this post)

+ Our guest, Lisa Foote, sent over these links for our show notes:

• Citation on “app stores not the future” (Financial Times report on MobileBeat, July 17)
• More on Nokia and QT
• Rhodes
• Android’s growth

+ Finally, as a special tribute to Phil Wilson’s curious and instant recognition that the bumper music for this week’s show was, in fact, very “Cialis commercial-like,” I offer up this Cialis spoof video starring the actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. (possibly NSFW) in honor of Mr. Wilson.

Minnov8 Gang #43: Tech Stuff & Mobile Trends is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This week we talk about lifestreaming, smartphones, online backup, Microsoft Office Online, the Conclave and much more.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and our new monthly host, Julio Ojeda Zapata.

Discussed during the show notes:

• Posterous: lifestreaming application (and Steve Rubel making the change away from his blog to Posterous) TwitPic and TwitVid
• My presentation to the Social Media Breakfast
• Our Posterous blogs: Steve’s and Julio’s
• Online backup services (e.g., Mozy; CrashPlan (and Tim Elliott’s recording of their Minnedemo presentation); Microsoft SkyDrive; Dropbox; Backblaze
• Microsoft Office Online; Google Apps for Your Domain
• Phil’s recent Conclave conference where he ran the tech-interactive track. Locals presenting included: Gary Koelling, Justin Grammens and Lisa Foote
• CodeMorphic just announced that “Public Radio Player 2.0″ is available on the App Store as of last night (iTunes URL)
• Nabbit
• TST Media
• The next Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul is on Friday, July 31st.

Minnov8 Gang #43: Lifestreaming, Backup & Conclaves is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Discussed during the show notes:

+ Crunchpad

+ Hootsuite and CoTweet

+ Ubuntu Linux and G OS

+ Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Sun’s VirtualBox

+ Best Buy’s Reward Zone

The music on this week’s show is in the public domain and the name of the track is The Railroad Stomp by Jolly Two.


Minnov8 Gang Podcast from Savage Depot is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

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) last week

+ Best Buy’s new Twitter initiative

+ MagentoCommerce

+ Upcoming Wordpress meetup/unconference on Thursday, July 30th at 6:30pm

+ GDGT.com

+ Vendor Relationship Management

+ Posterous

Minnov8 Gang 41: What if George had an iPhone? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off today).

Discussed during the show notes:

• Apple’s new iPhone 3Gs:  Selling previous iPhone’s online so as to upgrade; Crunchgear on tethering; Anandtech article
• Social Media Breakfast MSP this Friday
• TOSBack, a ‘Terms of Service’ tracker, which is a website that monitors changes in TOS
• Cory Doctorow’s book Craphound, read as a free audiobook and downloadable here and his website/blog here (with all of his books listed since once you start reading/listening to them, you’ll keep going).

Minnov8 Gang 40: Jobs, iPhone, Pre & Cory is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

• Public Radio Tuner (#2 in iTunes store, 2M+ downloads, iTunes link)

• General Mills Betty Crocker Cookbook (iTunes link)

• Cisco/Linksys Media Hub Control

• Blausen Medical (high resolution medical imagery/videos, iTunes link)

• Smarter Agent Real Estate*

• Bacardi*

*Shipping this week.

This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Discussed during the show notes:

• Apple’s new iPhone 3Gs
• iPhone Developer Center
• Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2009 (WWDC) (Keynote stream here)
• Palm Pre (Palm Developer Network) and Google Android and Android Developer site
• Examples of iPhone venture funding: Smule lands $3.9M; Booyah gets $4.9M from Kleiner Perkins iFund; game publisher Ngmoco raises second round of $10M (first was $5M from Kleiner Perkins & Maple Investments)
• Skype and their new, open source SILK codec (developer site here).

Minnov8 Gang Podcast 39: A Conversation with Codemorphic is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Look for us next Saturday with an all new show (by the way, I just noticed that those are a man’s hands holding the binoculars up to that young woman and seems sort of creepy!).

Minnov8 Gang Podcast Update is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off today).

Discussed During the Show Notes:

• Tim mentions Serious Eats and the mention of local vendor ChefShack (Twitter @chefshack1 and website), “A Minneapolis-based truck operated by two chefs with 20 years of experience in notable fine dining kitchens.“

All Things D releases:

1. Steve Ballmer interview and announcement of Bing (not-yet-live site; Virtual Press Kit for Bing)
2. Roger McNamee and Jon Rubenstein (Palm investors) interview and Palm Pre discussion as well as a new demo

• Google Wave introduction which Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington positioned as something that stole the thunder from Microsoft’s Bing announcement (read “What Just Happened? Thursday was Supposed to be Bing Day.“)

• J Wynia and Garrick Van Buren’s interview from 2006 with J)

M8 Gang 38: Bing, Google Wave & Palm Pre is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Nyman, along with serial entrepreneur John Montague, are off on a new adventure — certain to make a big impact on the startup climate here in Minnesota — called “40 Ventures” and he tells us all about their innovative model of a fund for startups.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Discussed During the Show Notes:

• Go2Web20
• YCombinator
• TechStars
• New York Times article on venture capital study

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 37 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

We also talk at length about Minnedemo, the event itself as well as people we met there and reactions we had (Note: we’ll have a video up shortly of a few interviews we did at Minnedemo) and get into a discussion about URL shortening services.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Discussed During the Show Notes:

• Best Buy Idea Exchange (Best Buy is on a tear. Makes one wonder: are these guys going to single-handedly showcase ‘net and web innovation in Minnesota?)
• Shorpy.com; Fieldnation.com; CentralStandardTech.com; StartupShoppe; Magnet360 (MNCup); Reside, LLC
• Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Events
• Fallon’s Skimmer app, coded by SierraBravo (& led by Chris Black who did an awesome job demo’ing it!)
• Glue Conference
• Garrick Van Buren & Cullect
• Steve Gillmor’s “Rest in Peace RSS” post on Techcrunch (note he also wrote about “The Death of Podcasting” in July of 2005….oops)
• Steve Borsch’s post, “It’s the Value, Stupid” in the mention of the disheveled and disorganized late William F. Buckley
• The bit.ly win over tinyurl; Mashable’s post on “90+ URL Shortening Services“

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 36 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Poking around ahead of the show led us to reading this article about the CB radio ‘bubble’ we experienced and the reason this form of communication exploded on to the scene: “Following the 1973 oil crisis, the U.S. government imposed a nationwide 55 mph speed limit, and fuel shortages and rationing were widespread. CB radio was often used to locate service stations with a supply of gasoline, to notify other drivers of speed traps, and to organize blockades and convoys in a 1974 strike protesting the new speed limit and other trucking regulations.”

The Burt Reynolds movie Smokey and the Bandit was one (and what some term unfortunate) result of the huge CB radio boom in the 1970’s and really shows how it permeated our culture at the time in many ways like Twitter is today with CNN and Oprah jumping in and using it as Twitter grows like crazy…even though quitting Twitter is perhaps the new trend.

It got us to thinking about how much human communication and connection has changed since then and even how Twitter might be construed as ‘the CB radio of the internet age’. No question we have many ways to connect with one another and we talk about some of those in this show, how to achieve higher quality communications, consider what happens if we need to virtualize our communications even more today since most people are not preparing their families, companies or work processes in the event of a crisis (e.g., swine flu, terrorist attack, etc.). As always, we wander off on tangents that seem logical at the time!

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins (our buddy Phil Wilson is off today).

“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

+ NetBriefings, OnePlace, Yugma, Minnedemo
+ GLUE Conference (and contacting Graeme (email) about the two free passes he has)
+ Leo Laporte using a new Friendfeed groups feature to have chat accompany the TwitLive netcasts
+ Biz Borsch, 20 year old daughter of Steve, in community management with Social Media Eyes (launching soon)
+ Graeme uses TweetGrid for monitoring specific Twitter mentions of a keyword
+ Innovation Accelerator, Kim Garretson, and a new offering he’s ‘accelerating’, Involver
+ A good story that encapsulates the 1970’s CB Radio boom in an entertaining way.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 35 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

• MinneWebCon; MHTA Spring Conference; Wired for 2020; Cloud Camp; Ignite Mpls (and a mention of Bill Gurstelle and Jen Kane (and her Social Media 101 seminar); Under the Radar
• Mobile Twin Cities User Group
• What’s coming next….(Minnedemo) (SMBMSP)
• Other mentions: ExpanDrive for the Mac; Mobile Orchard; ComicTwit

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 34 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off celebrating his birthday today).

“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

• Redeye VC article on disruption in the encyclopedia space. Read this first and then this one (thanks to @jujubacon for the heads-up in this tweet)
• DimDim and Minnesota’s Yugma, web conferencing providers
• Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) Spring Conference and a panel Steve Borsch is leading (Your Network is 857,300+: But What Does That Mean for Your Business?) and one Graeme Thickins is leading (Moving into the Cloud — Drivers, Benefits and Reality)
• MinneWebCon happening Monday, April 6th.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 32 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

This week’s show is a discussion primarily about the future of newspapers…and the Minneapolis StarTribune in specific.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

• Minneapolis StarTribune Guild workers take it upon themselves to figure out a new business model for the paper
• Posts on newspaper models: one on how to save the Strib by Tim Elliott and this one on newspapers need blog networks by Steve Borsch
• Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author. His open source presentation discussing ideas around disruption, referred to by Steve during the podcast, is here
• Wall Street Journal article arguing in favor of paid subscriptions as a means of funding the newspaper business
• NYTimes: Blog standards (see Section B5 on this “Policy on Ethics in Journalism”) and their experiment with memetracking at BlogRunner
• Minnesota.com: a fairly basic directory service
• Fallon skimmer

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 31 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

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.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott & Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).

• Gage Marketing & VP, New Media, Mark Kurtz
• Jen Kane & her company
• Zeus Jones
• Sierra Bravo
• Best Buy Remix
• Outro music by Ann-Marita “Face in the Crowd” from the Podsafe Music Network.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 30 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins & Phil Wilson from SXSW.

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.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 29 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

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.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 28 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

On this week’s show, Graeme Thickins heads down for a few interviews at the start of the Sierra Bravo’s Overnight Website Challenge.

Today’s host: Graeme Thickins

Sierra Bravo’s Overnight Website Challenge again gathers ten teams of volunteer web pros to create free websites for ten nonprofits. Last time they dropped the F-word (free free free) they had more takers than they could handle.

A handful of Graeme’s photos from this morning after the jump….

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 27 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

The latter is a very different animal and the technical challenges, costs of bandwidth and ensuring your audience has a great experience isn’t for the faint of heart or dabbler. Our guest, TJ Kudalis, Senior Video Engineer from Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS), is a guy involved in video delivery on the internet since its infancy, and is someone whose been in the trenches with his IBS team to deliver content after the 9/11 tragedies, to the 70+ local TV stations IBS supports, as the content feed for NBC’s Olympic coverage in 2006, and is someone who knows what’s possible, what the costs are like for bandwidth and, most importantly, has a solid handle on the trends in software, hardware and peer-to-peer video delivery.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).

Links mentioned during the show and are others you’ll find enlightening:

• StreamingMediaBlog: News about the “business behind the technology of online video”
• Contentinople: A news site for the digital delivery industry
• Videonuze: Broadband video news
• NewTeeVee: Blog magazine about internet TV
• LostRemote: A multi-author blog written by people within traditional media but focused on, “…local TV and the battle for the Web.”
• Ripcode: Video transcoding appliance
• Mogulus: Is a hosted web (Flex) application to create LIVE, scheduled and on-demand internet television to broadcast anywhere on the web through a single player widget.
• uStream: “…is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size.”
• Oprah webcast: at the time (early 2008) was the largest webcast yet at 500,000 viewers.
• Obama Inauguration sets new records for internet video delivery
• For more on content delivery networks (CDNs) — and links to many of those providers as well as peer-to-peer technologies like the mentioned Octoshape — view this Wikipedia page.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 26 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

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 doing things. If your startup has one, how are you helping people know about it?

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Over-n-over again your Gang members run in to people seeking ways to make their processes more efficient, find cheaper or better ways to do something, but one thing is clear to us: people just don’t know what’s out there, what’s possible or — for the most part — that you or your startup even exist!

Links to Items Discussed on the Show:

+ PrincipledInnovation.com

+ Shazam

+ CloudCamp Minnesota

+ Mogulus

+ TimElliot.us

+ Customer service is the new marketing and more links here on this topic.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 25 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

No gang podcast this week, but several interviews recorded with attendees of Minnedemo last night. Graeme Thickins talks with several attendees as best he can in an incredibly crowded venue with a lot of socializing going on!

Today’s hosts: Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 24 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

One favorite meme about our current situation discussed is, “the world is undergoing an economic reboot”. In a nutshell, here’s our choice: Focus on the bad news, continued negative reports on poor economic indicators, and sit and do nothing (or continue on with business-as-usual as if nothing has happened). Or…look at this as an opportunity to grab market share, reinvent your business, or accelerate your startup.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ MinneDemo will be live-streamed over uStream…and Minnov8 will be conducting video interviews there and we’ll then be delivering both the recorded live stream and our interviews here at Minnov8 as quickly as we can post-production done and them posted.

LINKS
+ That user generated YouTube Trader Joe’s ad mentioned by Tim Elliott is here

+ The group Phil is involved with as their new Director, The Association for Downloadable Media, whose mission surrounds providing standards for advertising and audience measurement for episodic and downloadable media. If you’re an individual podcaster, media company, publisher, syndication company, distributor offering downloadable media, advertising agency, marketer, technology supplier, hardware and software manufacturer of portable media products and services, market research firm or audience and advertising effectiveness measurement company, you’ll undoubtedly want to join.

+ Sprout, iWidgets, TubeMogul and Vimeo.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 23 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

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 Technology at Best Buy Inc. After interactions with Graeme Thickins — who isn’t bashful about promoting Minnov8 — Gary decided he’d like to create for Minnov8 and completed the form (hint: you could too!).

Gary is the founder of BlueShirtNation.com, Giftag.com and leads several social technology projects within Best Buy. He describes himself as a tinkerer, gadfly (and an aspiring iconoclast), reader, tryer (someone who tries), teacher and listener (with a fairly tuned bullshit meter). Due to the success of the efforts he’s involved in, and the high profile of our hometown consumer electronics retailing giant, Gary has been able to talk to lots of people and companies around the country about social media and social technology.

Our favorite quote about his speaking around the country from his LinkedIn profile? “I don’t know if it’s helping, but I enjoy it.” We sure think so since he’s in-the-game, taking risks, experimenting and driving towards high value outcomes for his employer.

LINKS
Here are links to sites, products or other resources discussed during the podcast:

• Good economic news for MN tech firms in Q4 2008: MTS revs up 9%, EPS up 21% (view MTS “Test Suite“) and NVE up 24%, EPS up 44% (view NVE “Fun Facts” page)
• Mashable article on 40 Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them (Scroll down to the “Retail” section)
• Fortune Top 100 Best Places to Work: Mayo (24th) and General Mills (39th) as great places to work (via MNHeadhunter)
• Forbes listing America’s Top Most Wired Cities: Minneapolis is #7 on the list
• The (mostly mythological) “Osborne Effect” but is there some reality to it in an online world?
• Macintosh image editors increasingly used by Tim Elliott: Acorn and Pixelmator
• Gary headed to Etail in Phoenix and a Computerworld event (both he and his cohort and colleague, Steve Bendt)
• EVENTS: Social Media Breakfast 1/30/09; Minnedemo (RSVP if you want to get in!) 2/6/09; Unsummit 3/7/09.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 22 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Today’s hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Paul’s a job coach, mentor, and one of the most AWESOME social and physical networkers we’ve ever met! This guy is EVERYWHERE online: His blog; his brand new BeYourOwnHeadhunter blog (The idea behind the site is to have content on job search, webinars on the same with networking topics like creating/using LinkedIn, and a book for later this spring with information that because of time do not make it into a one hour presentation); LinkedIn profile; Social Media Breakfast; RecruitingBlogs, a social network he started as well as MinnesotaRecruiters; Twitter; and has given speeches and is in articles all over the place…amazing. 

By the way, if you’re looking for a speaker on job search, networking or LinkedIn –  or are seeking a relationship-based recruiter to help with either IT placements or advice on employer branding, use of social media, etc. –  email Paul directly.

Links mentioned during the podcast: 

+ Twin Cities Business Monthly list of companies: http://www.tcbmag.com/factfinder/index.aspx

+ Craigslist Minneapolis Jobs postings

+ No matter what, make certain you have a LinkedIn profile

+ Graeme mentioned Doug Berg’s Job2Web (and we should mention HotGigs, a great local site that matches consultants and contractors to gigs, whether project-related, part-time, or temp-to-hire, etc)

+ Emurse, the online resume site

+ DiSO Project

+ Paul mentioned JibberJobber.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 21 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.

Ed is a web strategist working within the real estate industry to help companies and agents make better use of the web to build their businesses. Outside of that, Ed’s an avid blogger on subjects ranging from Technology, to Jucy Lucy Burgers, to local community issues. He also takes on some entrepreneurial projects from time to time like his new 3rdPartyFeedback and LunchTalks.

One local news story Ed is passionate about is the plan for legislation to make yellow pages distributors provide easier opt-out systems.

Other items discussed include:

• Couple of other of Ed’s sites: TheDeets and HayStackInANeedle
• Go2Web20.net
• 3rdPartyFeedback example from Garrick Van Buren’s Cullect initiative and his post about the results
• Julie Gilbert, Best Buy SVP and founder of the Women’s Leadership Forum (WoLF) who took a buyout and is leaving to setup similar programs for other companies
• Gang member Phil Wilson’s favorite site (PerezHilton) and how pumped he was to spend all day Saturday at the Mall of America since his idol Perez was in town.

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 20 is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.