#JournChat Live Twin Cities

My company, Tunheim Partners, will be hosting a #JournChat Live event on Monday, August 17 from 6:30-9 p.m. Journchat is an ongoing conversation between journalists, bloggers and PR folks conducted through Twitter but also accompanied by live events. The point is to help improve relationships through discussion. #JournChat Live Twin Cities is being organized by Arik [...]

“Man On The Street” Reactions To The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal

This is sorta interesting and sorta weird at the same time. UPI interviews anonymous people on the street in an anonymous city for their reaction to the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. Found at YouTube from UPIVideo.

The Minnesota Social Media Bloggers FriendFeed Room

I’ve put together a FriendFeed room for all the local social media bloggers I follow and I thought it would be nice to share. I created it simply to allow me to have one central resource at my fingertips but perhaps it can serve as a tool for all of us keep up on the conversations [...]

Generations: The History Of America’s Future

I’ve been meaning to start a list of essential reading for Internet marketers in particular and strategic communications professionals in general. So, today I start with one of my favorite books, period; not just a favorite marketing book: Willam Strauss and Neil Howe’s Generations: The History of America’s Future. I love history and have read countless history [...]

Chris Anderson & Guy Kawaski Discuss Freemium Business Model

Chris Anderson & Guy Kawasaki debate and talk about the ‘freemium’ business model. Found at YouTube from twdaily.

The One Big Thing: Mobile Social

The One Big Thing I think you need to know this week is that social networks are getting much closer to going mobile. foursquare seems to be taking off and now Google has released an iPhone app for Latitude, pointing to the inevitability of a real-time, location-based social graph. Google hasn’t excelled to this point in the [...]

Managing Online Criticism

I came cross this yesterday. It’s a short interview by Jeremiah Owyang with community manager Connie Bensen during which Connie provides some tips on handling online criticism. Though the interview is from 2007, her advice is entirely applicable today. I’ve been thinking more about online criticism lately after helping a client deal with some recently and [...]

Kevin Spacey Explains Twitter To David Letterman With Little Success

This demonstrates just how far Twitter has become part of the fabric of American life and, in part, explains Twitter’s growth. When you have Kevin Spacey and David Letterman chatting about it on TV, a LOT of people take notice. Found at YouTube via CrunchGear.

My List Of The Top Minnesota Social Media Innovators

Arik Hanson has a great idea (again); he’s taking nominations (only 5) for the top 20 social media innovators in Minnesota. Rules: You can only nominate five people (but everyone’s breaking that rule) The person must live in Minnesota He’s taking nominations for one week, after which he’ll tally and post the top 20 This is very tough because we [...]

Steve Rubel Interviews Mike Slaby, Former CTO Of The Obama Campaign

Those of you who have been following this blog since at least the beginning of the last presidential campaign know how much I admire the work of then-candidate Barack Obama’s online marketing team. This is a fantastic interview Steve Rubel recently conducted with Mike Slaby, the Obama campaign’s CTO; some great insights:

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