In today’s Monday Media Marketing Minute, learn some tips and tactics to create publicity while helping a nonprofit.
And if you’re looking for press releases to help you promote your collaboration with a worthy charity, visit www.PennyPinchingPublicity.com
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FIRST in Hawaii Robotics Competition from hawaii on Vimeo.
Scenes from the last day of the FIRST in Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition. Students from schools across the state and the country gathered at the Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii to show off their math, science, and engineering skills in the form of ball playing robots. FIRST was founded by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, who was in Honolulu for the event.
The winning alliance included the Rambots from Radford High School, The Cheesy Poofs from Bellarmine College Prep High School (California), and The Pink Team from Rockledge High, Cocoa Beach High, and Viera High Schools (Florida).
The above is the embedded video player from Vimeo, one of the few online video hosts to serve up HD content. To see the HD video (and not a scaled and compressed Flash version), however, you need to view it at Vimeo or download the original movie file (128MB/1250×720/MP4). It should look great on an Apple TV.
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What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
JamGlue is a cool music remix site put together by a group of young entrepreneurs living together in a Seattle-area house. Get a tour and sit down with co-founder Matt Rubens.
Other posts from a year ago:
Demo of JamGlue: music remix site
Editor’s Choice: highlights of JamGlue’s interview and demo
Learn about SmartSheet.com, online team/event spreadsheets
Tags: JamGlue, music, remix, Matt Rubens
PATRICK AND JOHN COLLISON (the youngest guys at left) took their story onto the couch with RTE Late Late host Pat Kenny tonight and shared some ideas with a grateful audience, many who watched and texted away on Twitter and Jaiku during the 15-minute interview [11 MB 96 kbps MP3 file]. The Collison brothers have achieved millionaire status, an unusual achievement for any teenager, especially one who hasn’t finished high school. We listened to their success story during a Limerick OpenCoffee session several months ago but no matter how many times I hear what they’ve done, I wish that someone with government vision would simply listen to the support mechanisms they found most helpful, then set out to establish a new framework that served entrepreneurs who want to live and work as part of Ireland Inc. We will follow this line of thought on Thursday in the Absolute Hotel during the April OpenCoffee meet-up in Limerick. It’s free and will have a Qik stream for part of the session.
Photo by TouristR. Audio from RTE Late Late segment hosted by Pat Kenny and recorded as a Qik stream. The audio segment above will be snapped into Inside View 71 on Wednesday.
Bonus Links: Photos from OpenCoffee and “Inside the eBay ecosystem“.
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As part of Success Secrets: this and every Friday, I’ll be talking with entrepreneurs and other professionals about building a business.
This week, we’re interviewing Lori Miller of Developing Professionals.
Lori created her training and consulting company out of her home. Listen in as she shares her secrets to a successful business.
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Introduction
On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, I talk to Lance Tokuda the CEO of RockYou. The interview is basically broken into three parts:
- An overview of how RockYou focuses on building applications, especially focusing in on building apps on the Facebook platform versus the Open Social platform
- An overview of the RockYou company
- Finally, things Lance has learned moving from an enterprise software guy to focusing on building consumer facing applications
It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ubiquitous digital media creator by night). There was the Golden Gate Bridge walk (spread over three parts!), and then came pumpkins — lots of pumpkins. Somewhere between the Golden Gate Bridge and the pumpkin patch, conversations with entrepreneurs like b5edia Founder and President Jeremy Wright and SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill.
There was lunch with Bill Gates and another lunch with Mark Cuban. We met folks from Salesforce and Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo and Maxthon. We met political bloggers and a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.
But one of our favorites? It’s an interview with Microsoft’s Gary Flake on Photosynth.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Robert Scoble is still the author of the incredibly popular tech geek blog, Scobleizer.com. He’s also the managing director over at FastCompany.tv, where ScobleShow editor and producer Rocky Barbanica is also now a senior producer.
Since that fateful first ScobleShow, Agassi has moved on to found Project Better Place, in order to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change. Jonathan Schwartz is still at Sun, still blogging, and lots of the start-ups we met are still kicking around, some of them very successfully! It’s worth taking a few minutes to surf through the archives, or just wait to see what pops up in the Classic feed. Good for a few goofy laughs and a little insight into where we’ve been and where we might be going. Oh, and Thomas Hawk is still evangelizing for photo sharing and digital media, and still believes that the best pictures in the world have yet to be taken.
Tags: SAP, Shai Agassi, Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, Thomas Hawk, b5edia, Jeremy Wright, SmugMug, Don MacAskill, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Salesforce, Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo, Maxthon, Microsoft, Gary Flake, Photosynth, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer.com, FastCompany.tv, Rocky Barbanica, Project Better Place
Now here’s a cool recipe for a meetup:
- Round up a bunch of friends for a gathering using social media tools
- Head to a good local restaurant
- Share good conversation over a meal — prepared by your grandmother
That’s the gist of the idea dreamed up by Geneva, Switzerland-based entrepreneur Laurent Haug, founder of the Dinner with Grandma series. I heard all about it on the March 19/22 episode of Spark, an outstanding podcast from the CBC.
(The whole episode is good, but if you just want to hear the Dinner with Grandma segment, skip ahead to the 10:30 mark)
Laurent’s held three of these meetups in Geneva, and now Spark is looking to bring the series to Canada.
Why these events work
For all the benefits of connecting and building relationships online — and there are plenty of ‘em — there tends to be something more intimate about sharing face-to-face time with those same friends and colleagues at events like conferences or unconferences, Social Media Breakfasts, or Tweetups.
It’s the reason a friend of mine attending the South by Southwest conference for the first time this year called it “an almost religious experience.” It’s the reason Jeff Pulver says “the more virtual we become, the more we need to have face-to-face meetings.
Face-to-face matters.
I say Dinner with Grandma would be one heckuva meetup to hold in my neck of the woods, in Boston, too. So if you’re game to help me organize it, please drop me a line, or leave a comment below.
(Flickr photo by laughlin)
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We’ll deviate from our usual format to better explain today’s show discussion.
George: When I was just getting started in business, I had an opportunity to buy a property that the real estate broker said would support a 12-unit apartment building.
I determined that 24 units could be built; upon checking with my architect, I found out it would support 26. So I knew the property was worth at least twice what I was paying.
But a business opportunity came along, and I decided to go for that. I sold my option on the property to my architect at cost.
Within weeks, a major building project was announced right across the street from this property. I could have made way more money in months with the real estate project than I did in years in the business!
6 essential factors you must have in place when opportunity knocks
Mary-Lynn: #1 – You have to be in the right place. Your research showed that you were in the right place, George. You knew the property was worth more than you were paying.
George: #2 – It has to be the right time. Had I done more research, I might have discovered the new project across the street. But I got nervous about losing my option money, which I needed for the business.
Mary-Lynn: #3 – Recognize that you’re in the right place at the right time.
You have to actually realize the moment you’re in so you can capitalize on it. But George, you sold because you had another opportunity?
George: I did. However, the returns came in slower than they would have with the real estate project. I can’t complain about it, though – the business opportunity helped launch my other businesses.
Mary-Lynn: Why did you sell the property at cost when you knew it was worth more?
George: I was only 22 at the time … I was inexperienced. And frankly, a little scared. I needed the money for the business opportunity. So I did what I thought was best, but I lost out on an opportunity to jump-start my net worth.
Mary-Lynn: #4 – You need knowledge of what to do. This is all about education. When your opportunity presents itself, you don’t have time to prepare.
George: I knew enough to find the opportunity; what I lacked were the specifics of what to do with the exact situation.
Mary-Lynn: So how did you to get ready for the next time?
George: I studied all of the ways you could make money with a property. I read books, listened to tapes, and talked to anybody and everybody who would talk to me.
Mary-Lynn: #5 – Know how to do what you need to do. This is about experience – knowing how you actually execute what needs to be done.
George: From this experience, I started smaller the next time. I learned how to go through the process, from beginning to end, to develop a property.
Mary-Lynn: Is it important to start out smaller?
George: Not necessarily, although I think most people start out relatively small. I wanted to make sure that I could afford to see my next project through to the end.
Mary-Lynn: #6 – You need access to the required resources. Who you know plays a part. You need to be able to raise the money required and find the right people to get the job done.
George: This was perhaps my biggest stumbling block. I became overwhelmed at all that would need to be done. I didn’t see how bigg an opportunity it was or how easy it would have been to capitalize on it.
But here’s the good news – I learned so much that made me so much because I missed out on this deal!
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Our bigg quote today comes from Abraham Lincoln.
Do your homework now so when opportunity knocks, you can answer.
Next time, we’ll discuss communicating effectively across department lines. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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One of the most interesting talks at the TED conference this year was scientist Craig Venter’s. Particularly intriguing, at least to me, was that many people found his presentation unsettling. They didn’t like that the first scientist to get wildly rich from the human genome was so avid in his embrace of engineered life.
With that in mind, a critical piece by Steve Shapin in the current London Review of Books is worth reading. It concludes by calling Venter emblematic of modern academic scientists, embodying a “Belligerent, innovative, ambitious and entrepreneurial” approach.
Nice line. Now, if only that were more true. Anyway, here is Venter from TED this year:
Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next five years. This is the fifth year of the program. In addition, the University of Utah was rated 2nd behind only MIT in the number of technology spin-offs based on university research. MIT had 23 and the University of Utah had 20.
Tags: Colin Kelly, Cydni Tetro, MIT, University of Utah, venture captial, vSpring
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