My Talk on Blogging and Social Media at 'Club Entrepreneur' posted on February 14, 2010 09:24:56 am I gave a presentation on blogging and social media recently to the monthly lunch meeting of our local "Club Entrepreneur," which was launched within the past year by Rick Brimacomb. About 60 people attended, more than they'd had at previous meetings, so we got to meet in the larger, main...
External Community Platform blueKiwiâ„¢ Announces Free Version posted on February 09, 2010 06:48:41 am Marketers, community managers, and innovation teams, listen up. blueKiwi, which calls itself "the global conversation company," today announced the availability of a free version of its well-established Social Business Platform. The company, based in France, has raised $12M in two rounds of venture capital and just opened a San Francisco...
The Book That Rules in Marketing & PR, Now In Its 2nd Edition posted on February 07, 2010 07:00:41 am Without a doubt, David Meerman Scott is one of the people I most respect in this business. He's also my favorite author and speaker, and a great friend. (Heck, he's even a surfer, and sends me cool pix of some of the beaches he visits in his world travels!) David...
Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC posted on January 17, 2010 08:30:08 am Here's a post I just wrote about a mega-hot Minneapolis startup, over on another site I contribute to regulary: Minnov8.com. You might also want to listen to some of our podcasts posted there, which we do weekly. Just published earlier today is a post that includes the link to our...
What I've Been Doing for the Last Month and a Half... posted on December 31, 2009 11:22:55 am ...because I sure haven't been posting here. Wow, I can't believe it's been 45 days! My last post was soon after I got home from Defrag. It's a long story. First, I got sick right after I did that last post, coughing and hacking and generally feeling lousy, which went...
Cluetrain Green-Room Convo, Defrag09: The Bootleg MP3 posted on November 15, 2009 07:40:02 pm So, it's the second and final day of the Defrag Conference (see Twitter search: #defragcon), and I jump out into the hallway during the afternoon break, rarin' to mingle through the crowd and find some unsuspecting CEO to interview next by shoving my whiz-bang Olympus LS-10 handheld digital recorder in...
I'm Live-Blogging the Defrag '09 Conference posted on November 11, 2009 06:04:37 am Here I am for my third consecutive year covering the Defrag conference in Denver. What an awesome event! The cream of the crop in tech -- big thinkers, and lots of the Internet's movers-and-shakers and upcoming leaders. As I've done at two previous conferences this year, I'll be live-blogging the...
An iPhone Fanboy Reviews the Droid posted on November 02, 2009 02:44:07 pm Or should I say "tears it apart"? No, seriously, my objective is to be fair here. As an independent blogger, I take the opportunity from time to time to do a review. And I was offered a Droid loaner a few days ago by my PR buddy Al Maruggi, while...
Check Out "The New Me" on the Web posted on October 28, 2009 12:17:38 pm So, what do you think of my new online business card? Here's a JPEG of it: To see the real thing, go here: http://graemethickins.businesscard2.com. When you click through to that link, mouse over the card and check out all the features! Do you have one of these yet? You should!...
So, I Went to the MIMA Summit... Maybe You Heard About It? posted on October 08, 2009 09:53:39 am It was October 5th at the Minneapolis Hilton. And if you didn't hear about it, where were you? Well, at least if you're from these parts. Because, when marketers gather for an annual confab, they know how to hype it -- especially our local marketing community. I said the same...
Here's the Archive of My Live Blogging at DEMOfall 09 posted on September 26, 2009 08:16:05 pm As I said in my previous post, I used a tool called ScribbleLive to do live-blogging at the DEMOfall conference earlier this week in San Diego. I've now converted all that live-blogging to an archive, which puts everything in proper chronological order -- from the beginning (even prior to the...
My Live Blogging of DEMOfall 2009 posted on September 17, 2009 12:06:41 pm My twice-yearly coverage of the DEMO conference -- this one, the DEMOfall edition, where some 70 new ventures will be launching -- will appear here. It's a special event because it will be executive director Chris Shipley's final DEMO, after 13 great years. She's co-producing this one with Matt Marshall...
Quick Video of My Pix from 'Social Media Breakfast' Today posted on August 28, 2009 06:44:04 pm Just created another Animoto video from the photos I shot at this morning's "Social Media Breakfast-Twin Cities" at the Minnesota State Fair. What a hoot it was! I didn't shoot all that many pix. I couldn't -- I had so many people wantin' to schmooze! But, hey, that's the best...
A Quick 'Blogwell-Minneapolis' Video (My First One Ever Created with Animoto) posted on August 26, 2009 11:43:44 am Just for the heck of it, I decided to try a service called Animoto, which promises to lets you create videos in minutes from your own photos, letting you add music you select from their site, or you can use your own track. It's free for creating 30-second videos (like...
My Day at Blogwell - Minneapolis posted on August 14, 2009 07:28:07 am The sixth regional BlogWell event was held yesterday, August 13, 2009, at General Mills headquarters in suburban Minneapolis, sponsored by GasPedal and the Social Media Business Council. It was a sold-out conference, with more than 300 registered, and the largest such event to date of any of the previous versions...
Y Combinator Taps MN's FanChatter for Startup ‘American Idol’ posted on August 06, 2009 02:43:19 pm Here’s a story many in Minnesota have been waiting to hear — especially a bunch of my friends in the local developer and ad communities who knew something was up. Yes, Minneapolis startup FanChatter has finally gone public with what they’ve been doing for the past four months. FanChatter is...
Wood Is Good ... Just Sayin' posted on July 26, 2009 07:16:26 pm I attended an antique wooden boat show over the weekend. It was cool. These are some of my favorites of the many photos I shot. The rest are in here in my Flickr set.
Jason Kintzler of PitchEngine Speaking in Twin Cities July 13 posted on July 10, 2009 06:29:29 am According to ace conference organizer Jen Kane of Kane Consulting in Minneapolis, it's now a "brave new world" in public relations. And to help managers of local businesses and PR practitioners alike better understand how "new hybrid media forms" are changing the game, she's flying in a national speaker who's...
I'm Stoked! 'Coldwater Surf Fest' Is June 6th, Park Point, Duluth posted on May 23, 2009 09:41:03 pm (UPDATE 6/8/09: Here's my Flickr set from Friday night and Saturday, June 5-6. Alas, no waves on Saturday -- but we had fun, anyway! ... and a very successful Surfrider Foundation beach clean-up. Several surfers stayed on for waves forecast at 4-7 ft Sunday and Monday.) It's that time again,...
GlueCon 09: My Interviews with VCs Brad Feld and Seth Levine posted on May 14, 2009 02:05:43 pm While I was reporting from the first-year Glue Conference the past few days in Denver, I had the opportunity to interview two of the guys behind the scenes in launching and planning this great event: Brad Feld and Seth Levine, partners in VC firm Foundry Group, which is based in...
MN Startups: Sharpen Up Those Business Plans! The ‘Minnesota Cup’ Deadline Is May 22 posted on May 10, 2009 05:01:36 pm Attention all Minnesota startups and would-be startups: only a short time remains to enter the statewide business-plan competition known as The Minnesota Cup — applications are due Friday, May 22, 2009. Now in its fifth year, the competition is bigger and better in 2009, with more prizes and more opportunities...
Upcoming Event to Focus on the ROI of Digital Marketing posted on April 12, 2009 07:37:10 am A Twin Cities event for senior executives and marketing professionals has been announced by long-standing Minneapolis web marketing firm Ciceron. Entitled Radical ROI: Seizing the Potential of the Digital Marketplace, the half-day panel will be held Monday, May 11, 2009, from 8:00 to 11:00 am at the Midland Hills Country...
How to Get Buzz for Your Startup Launch: Write a Book! posted on March 29, 2009 11:38:32 am Okay, not everyone can pull this off. But one experienced Minneapolis tech entrepreneur, George Reese, is doing it in a big way with a new book on "cloud computing." What's cloud computing, you ask? Did you just come out from under a rock? If you're involved in any way in...
DEMO 09 - A Closing Conversation With Some Buddies... posted on March 05, 2009 01:24:25 pm Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~blog has an impromptu, rambling, fun discussion with Steve Larsen, Erik Haus, and Chris Gammill, on the Pavilion showfloor of the DEMO '09 conference as it winds down. The event was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
DEMO 09 - Closing Interview With Chris Shipley posted on March 05, 2009 01:11:10 pm Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~blog interviews Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO '09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Xmarks posted on March 05, 2009 12:55:58 pm Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~blog interviews James Joaquin, CEO of Xmarks, at the DEMO '09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Primal Fusion posted on March 05, 2009 11:30:34 am Graeme Thickins interviews Peter Sweeney, CEO of Primal Fusion, at the DEMO '09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
