Social Media at the Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Footnote.com is adding social media tools to The Vietnam Memorial, one of the most recognized memorials in Washington, D.C. For those who have visited the wall, you know finding names is not easy. Nor does a visit to the wall allow you to learn more about the many people and heros who served.
Footnote.com’s new social media version of The Vietnam Memorial brings The Vietnam Memorial inside the comfort of your own home. By creating a searchable image of The Wall, now it’s easy to find friends, family or names. Once found, Footnote.com allows you to search the details about soldiers, post stories about fallen comrades and even upload pictures of service men and women. By adding social media to The Vietnam Memorial, the conversation about the individuals listed can continue and honor can be extended to those who fell while rendering service.
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ConnectCast: Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs and U of Utah 2nd Behind MIT
Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly talk about 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 be a CTO or CEO of a high tech company in the next 5 years. This is the 5th 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.
Miss America Goes Digital
As CMO of StoryRock Electronic Publishing, Sharlene Hawkes wants every service man and woman to have a Remember My Service digital yearbook that highlights their military experience. And this former Miss America and one of the first female, on-air, ESPN sportscasters certainly has the energy and passion to make it happen.
As Hawkes points out, the military is capturing hours of video content that isn’t being used. In addition, the tools available today to bring stories to life makes it easy to create a digital publication that is interactive, engaging and far more memorable. The popularity of social networks like Facebook and MySpace are driving awareness and creating the expectation for more than a static picture book. Paying tribute to a fallen friend through a story captured on video is more personal and helpful to the soldiers, the family and to the military.
Hawkes talks with Brad Baldwin about her efforts to share the Remember My Service to military leaders, business executives and even local communities who want to gives something back to those who have served.
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ConnectCast - Venture Debt, Facebook Applications and Reflecting on James Levoy Sorenson
Some quick highlights in this weeks Connectcast include reflections about James Levoy Sorenson’s legacy includes inventing disposal surgical masks and an entire legacy of medical innovations. A quick discussion around Venture Debt options and when they should be considered - Innoventures a new company, UVEF tackles social media for young entrepreneurs and Paul Allen’s World Vital Records We’re Related Facebook app takes off.
Optimizing Online Business with Omniture
Over 2,000 of the world’s top online marketing talent — and those spending 30% of the world-wide web ad budget — descended upon Salt Lake City for Omniture’s annual Summit on web analytics. Omniture is recognized by Fast Company as one of the world’s most innovative companies (interestingly, 66% of the top 50 are Omniture customers).
Chris Parkin, Sr. Director of Genesis Solutions and former Sr. Director of Product Marketing, sits down with Brad Baldwin between sessions to talk about the trends and advances in online business optimization.
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