Category Archives: Internet

MIMA Web 2.0 Presentation Podcast

For those of you unable to make to MIMA’s Web 2.0 Salon on the 18th, I’ve made the recording available as part of the First Crack podcast.
Thanks to MIMA, Jim Cuene, all of you that provided on-mic comments and the more than 100 attendees for a great event.

Something New in the Air

With spring, Winteractive has seen our snowman melt, leaving MNteractive.com very unseasonable. With a little bit of hard work, and a bit of perspiration we have a new identity!

Now you may ask yourselves…
How did they achieve this? What was their thought behind it all? Think Minnesota. Think Dialog. Think Community.
View a PDF of the [...]

Sometimes the truth hurts…

Sometimes things ring so true.
Huh?

MIMA Salon: Interactive Business Strategy

RSS. Folksonomies. Flickr. Ajax. What’s going on out there in cyberspace? Is it a whole new internet?
Join us at our May Salon at Calhoun Beach Club next week and find out! Jim Cuene, one of MIMA’s founding members, will discuss the emerging web technologies of “Web 2.0″ - what it means, who’s doing it, [...]

MIMA Seminar: Search Marketing

Organic? Online PR? Blogs? Search, she ain’t what she used to be. Join us at the April Seminar for an in-depth look at search engine marketing and optimization best practices, tools of the trade and tips for everyone from novice to expert.
Lee Odden, President of TopRank Online Marketing, will share his hardwon insights about the [...]

How’d You Find Out About MNteractive?

Digging through server logs is always interesting. I wanted to share some of the more interesting ways people have found MNteractive.com using Google, Yahoo, or other search engines in Q1 2005.

“what are some of the different things we can do with computers”
“bad ass flash websites”
“make my monthly grocery list”
“guy like flip flops”
“there are two type [...]

How People Read Google Search Results

Marketing guru Seth Godin shares an image of how our eyes move about Google’s search results page.
Outside of it confirming we read upper-left-to-lower-right and the first “natural” search result is the hottest, here are a couple other interesting finds from the image

The “fold” cuts right through the 5th search result.
The last 2 sponsored links in [...]

Does Your Name Need to Be Spelled Right?

After raving about Chuck Olsen’s Blogumentary for the past 5 months, posting about the film multiple times, interviewing him, and even giving him money, I realized I’ve been spelling his name wrong (Olsen, not Olson).
Google returns 314 results for “chuck olson blogumentary“. Five of them, including the top 2, are regrettfully, me. Oddly, the Pioneer [...]

Google the Boob Tube

You can now search through Television transcripts (actually, the closed captioning) at Google.

WiFiWiki to become obsolete?

Mnteractive’s Wi-Fi directory may become obsolete–at least in St. Paul, where the City Council has begun discussions to consider covering the entirety of St. Paul with Wi-Fi interet access. Chaska, another metro area city, recently implemented their city-wide network.
If you think this is a good idea, you can contact council members Dave Thune and Lee [...]