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Cicada Emergence Map for Brood XIII Chicago and Lake County 2007

By on May 20, 2007 in Chicago

The Cicadas are coming! This neat, interactive map put together by the Lake County Forest Preserve District allows you to report the amount of cicadas in your area! This is a great example of a government agency collecting data through user generated content. The site is also nice link bait and will draw traffic and [...]

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Marshall Field’s

By on May 20, 2007 in Branding/Buzz/Viral, Chicago, Customer Experience

You will recall that last year, Federated Department Stores, now Macy’s, changed the name of Marshall Field’s to Macy’s. Now that flagship State Street store is well on it’s way to failing. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone was trying to buy it from them right now to start it anew. When history examines this, [...]

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Happy First Blog Birthday

By on May 15, 2007 in Blogging, Chicago, Mobile Search Marketing

One year ago today, I started and made my first post on this blog! More importantly, I started an international and quite unpredictable journey of connectedness, friendship acquisition, learning, assumption questioning and personal growth that still amazes me on a daily basis by it’s power to transform my life and the people around me in [...]

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Interesting Techmeme Visitors That Came to Read MyBlogLog News

By on May 15, 2007 in Blogging, Chicago, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)

There were interesting visitors that stopped by to read my MyBlogLog post! I thought you might like to learn about some of them. First I wanted to report that this Techmeme only event had an average visitor page view of 3.23 yesterday. Several months back, I had a major Digg event (Chicago Comcasted) had an [...]

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SOBCon Chicago 2007 Attendee Link List

By on May 11, 2007 in Blogging, Chicago, Social Media

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers will gather in Chicago this weekend! Get your list of attendee links for your own blog to link out. It is the list on the site with a few blog links corrected. If you notice other errors, please comment below and I’ll correct the link list when I have time. SOBcon2007 [...]

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Chicago Green Festival Summary

By on April 25, 2007 in Chicago

The Chicago Green Festival 2007 was held this past weekend. I went mainly to explore but I learned about new things. Bill Becker from Chicago based Aerotectures, gave a really interesting talk that explained his unique urban wind energy solution. There is a Youtube video that explains the basic highlights of his 45 minute talk: [...]

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Chicago Transit Authority – CTA Bus Tracker

By on April 25, 2007 in Chicago, Customer Experience

The Chicago Transit Authority announced that they were going to implement this system wide.The CTA Bus Tracker site is located here. No word on how it will be integrated or word on how it will be optimized for mobile web sites. Why stop at buses, why not do the trains too? Related CTA issues, why [...]

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Chicago GSB – Nobel Prizes

By on March 10, 2007 in Chicago

I found this old “ad” from an April 1st issue of Chibus, the Chicago GSB newspapertalking about the nobel prize…I think alumni would also like to see a much higher level of service from the Chicago GSB.

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