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Review: Adfed Mentorship Circle 5/6/09

Thank you to the AdFed for organizing this quarter’s “mentorship circle” at Spill the Wine in Minneapolis last night – much appreciated! The turnout was strong (40 ppl?), lots of fresh (and young) faces, a good sign that there’s new life out there.
So the whole time I was going to see/meet Jason Sack from Zeus [...]

I want to make this space more social

http://mashable.com/2008/08/20/social-wordpress-blog-plugins/

Ignite Seattle 4/29

ignite boulder 4/29

CATFOA 4/27/2009 – David Armano

Site of the week: life on line internet consultants

Awesome.
http://www.lolworld.com/

Ideation, co-creation, crowdsourcing, etc.

Best Buy is expanding its private label offerings based on the “mountains of customer feedback…”
Campbells soup wants your ideas
There’s an ideastorm brewing at Dell
Starbucks wants to shape their future with ideas from outside their walls
There’s clearly a trend here, the question I have is: how long do these companies have before their “idea pools” become [...]

Google: me?

The world of profiling is set to explode as our overlord steps into the arena.
Times via RRW has the juicy details

Dear 99% of realtors: Game over

Anything a real estate broker can tell a client can now be put online.
Of course, money can still be made but not with the conventional (read: overpaid) approach.  Having worked in and around the real-estate industry, I can confidently say that this is a score for the average homebuyer. The NAR has been explicitly involved [...]

Stanford Workshops…mmmm…

With a whole mess of traditional institutions democratizing their resources, here’s some super relevant classes for anyone looking to navigate the storm:
http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/videoworkshop/