A few local bloggers have recently put together lists of Minnesotans they consider to be social media innovators. I like bandwagons, so I’m jumping on. To me, a social media innovator is someone who’s found creative ways to use new social media tools to change their businesses for the better, or to build entirely new [...]
One small but growing trend worth paying attention to is the growth of small but growing trends. The small but growing trend here is the growing popularity of the phrase “small but growing trend.” Here is a chart of the term’s popularity over time: Perhaps print yellow pages spam frustration is a small but growing [...]
Aaron has a post over on MNPublius that outlines some of the ways Michelle Bachmann is using her government funded congressional website to endorse groups outside the scope of House rules. While this may not seem like a big deal to some, it’s worth considering the value of links from a .gov site as Aaron [...]
In June, I was spammed with a Qwest Dex yellow pages I had previously unsubscribed from. In July, I was spammed with a Yellowbook I had previously unsubscribed from. Old news, I know. But here’s something to think about: Does Qwest Dex’s yellow pages have a 1-year or 1-month shelf life? Clearly, when any yellow [...]
In Warren Buffett’s biography, The Snowball, a lesson in longevity that Buffett shares with college audiences is retold. He asks students to ask themselves how they’d approach buying an maintaining a car if, when they turned 16, they had the option to buy any new car on the market that year. He gets into how [...]
Last night’s Give & Take event at Intermedia Arts was a grand old time. I learned quite a few things, such as: – Chickens have been bred to be bald – MNKino sounds like a fun film making event – Knowledge means many things to different people – Minneapolis’ downtown has transformed from green spaces [...]
This is interesting. CityPages is complaining about a publication, One Nation News, lifting stories from CityPages (A-List, specifically) then putting their own name on it. Minneapolis/st. Paul – City Pages – The Blotter – One Nation News: All the plagiarism fit to copy and paste Last Sunday, I received a concerned email from a longtime [...]
Taylor put out a request: Ed should start tracking how many stories about Somali youth there are in the weeks before and the weeks after that NYTimes piece and see if there’s any change. Here’s one way to measure it. Check out Google News Timeline. A search for “somani gangs minneapolis” brought back this pattern [...]
Print Yellow Pages industry insiders love to justify the need for heavy, alphabetically sorted, printed directories of limited local business information based on one plumbing problem: who to call when your basement is filling with water. Here are a few examples: YP Printvangelist Ken Clark cites a quote from Canada’s CanPages CEO that Clark says [...]
A year ago, I unsubscribed from print delivery of Yellowbook’s yellow pages directory. I haven’t used it for years, and decided it was time to cut off the distribution of this piece of marketing waste. A quick phone call removed me from the list. Or so I thought. In reality, Yellowbook spammed my house with [...]
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