Minneapolis

Social Media Club Formalizes Nationally

Social Media Club, co-founded by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, has announced an interim board to help establish guidelines for the association.
While the interim board will focus on charting the organization’s future direction, our core mission will remain the same: promotion of media literacy; support of industry standards efforts such as Creative Commons licensing, [...]


Social Media Practitioners of Minnesota

Last month, Jeremiah Owyang created an ongoing list of Social Computing Strategists, Community Managers, and Social Media Researchers in the Enterprise. The extensive list Jeremiah put together helps to bring structure to an evolving work force that so many companies define differently. Do these positions fall under strategy, product management, PR, marketing, interactive? In May, [...]


Networks and Neighborhoods Symposium - University of Minnesota

This symposium looks interesting and will be held at the University of Minnesota . It will be hosted by three diverse departments within the University including:

Academic & Distributed Computing Services - Office of Information Technology
Learning Technologies, College of Education + Human Development
Digital Media Center, Office of Information Technology

Brining the diverse departments together to discuss online [...]


Minneapolis Fortune 500 List

Upon moving to Minneapolis, it is interesting to follow all the major corporations that are headquartered here. Below is a list of companies I am aware of from the Fortune 500 list. Revenues here are from 2004. A bit old but still it gives the picture of who is in town.
Target Corp. $48.1
United Health Group [...]