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Rock the Cause Cirque Du Serve, September 25

Solid Gold, Roster McCabe and Not Like This will perform at the Wall Amphitheater on the UW River . . . → Read More: Rock the Cause Cirque Du Serve, September 25

Skybox redefine the definition of zero budget music video

What a great video. These guys are like Flaming Lips, Jr.

Skybox plays Triple Rock Social Club on June 14 with Gold Motel and Now, Now . . . → Read More: Skybox redefine the definition of zero budget music video

James Apollo comes to Turf Club (not on a motorcycle)

Former Minnesota resident and roots-rock troubadour James Apollo will be bringing his band to the Turf Club on April 16.

He had a bad spill on a motorcycle a couple years ago, so it’s great to see him out touring and recording again.

Here’s Apollo’s video for “No East, . . . → Read More: James Apollo comes to Turf Club (not on a motorcycle)

Jason DeRusha, brought to you by Perfect Porridge

I’ve been enjoying WCCO reporter Jason DeRusha‘s innovative “desk news” each weekday at 4 p.m.

Viewers can watch a live stream of Jason’s desk on-demand during the day, but at 4 p.m. he specifically tunes into the live chat, talks about the changes being made to his Good Question for the evening, and tries to speak nonstop whilst reading the live chat and doing his best to make us feel like he’s listening.

It’s truly a fun and insightful strategy, and compared to what other mainstream media outlets are doing, bleeding edge.

Yesterday more than 50 of us tuned into see him receive the . . . → Read More: Jason DeRusha, brought to you by Perfect Porridge

Maria Isa, Kredentials, El Guante & See More Perspective, Toki Wright, Alicia Leafgreen & DeeJay Blowtorch at Nomad World Pub, Jan. 23

. . . → Read More: Maria Isa, Kredentials, El Guante & See More Perspective, Toki Wright, Alicia Leafgreen & DeeJay Blowtorch at Nomad World Pub, Jan. 23

MIMA Summit Blog Carnival: #4

As part of the MIMA Summit Blog Carnival, here’s a quick post addressing on of this week’s topics…

Topic #1: Keynote presenter, Ze Frank says, “You have a paradigm shift coming around. There is so much that happens as soon as you release anything — you get all this feedback…you get unexpected usage patterns, you get requests for new things, you get crises.” So, whose job is it to respond to all of these feedback, and how should they go about doing it?

Unfortunately, the responsibility for this often falls to the marketing department. Don’t get me wrong, PR folks (like me) . . . → Read More: MIMA Summit Blog Carnival: #4

Meet Me at BlogWorld 2008

This will be my second year attending BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas. It’s this Friday-Sunday at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

If you want to meet up and talk about music, social media or your pet rock collection shoot me an e-mail or better yet, DM me . . . → Read More: Meet Me at BlogWorld 2008

eMusic 2.0

Today eMusic launched a full site redesign incorporating a whole big bunch of social media tools. From the release:
Beginning today, eMusic customers will not only see album information and tracklisting on the page, they will see imported content from YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia for the artist whose music they are exploring.

It also includes Flickr and YouTube developer APIs and a browsing widget — opening the doors to things to come.

Unfortunately, what makes eMusic so great (even before this revamp) still holds them back from earning me as a paying customer. So all I’ll ever see is this log-in screen . . . → Read More: eMusic 2.0

Social Information Hoarder: MIMA's Data Overload Panel and Helpful Links

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Last night I spoke on a MIMA panel called titled “Too Much Information? Surviving Data Overload.” You can view the archived stream here.

I thought the overall event was fine, although I’m afraid the topic and questions were too general, geeky, philosphical and/or tactical for about half of the audience to appreciate. At the end of the day, there’s still a bulk of people who want to be told that managing an e-mail box to zero and using personal folders is the key to organizing data. While this is true (to an extent), social media has so much more exciting offerings to talk through. But the bulk of us early adopters tend to forget not everyone is on Twitter or uses RSS (although they should, which is the position the panel took from the outset).

In hindsight, I would’ve loved to hear (the librarian) share more. She sent around some sweet links prior to the panel that are golden (see below). I also would have suggested each panelist prepare three solid take-aways for the audience. Or maybe we should have each presented for 10 minutes and then open it to questions. Hindsight being perfect and all, I still think the event went well and got lots of great comments following the event.

Here’s the basic premise of what I talked about…Social Information Hoarding.
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I'm speaking…

On a panel at a Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) event this Wednesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. at the lovely International Market Square in Minneapolis.

The panel is titled “Too Much Information? Surviving Data Overload,” and promises to be very educational. I’m planning to learn more than anyone.

From MIMA’s event description:
Juicy blogs. Sweet tweets. Fresh, hot analytics. Today’s Internet is a virtual all-you-can-google buffet. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Well, no more. Come learn how to manage all your information sources, and sift the gold from hundreds of options out there.

We’re bringing together a group of fine folks to dish . . . → Read More: I'm speaking…