Photo by Meshl Nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to something we take for granted — clean, safe drinking water. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable. Every week, nearly 38,000 children under [...]

September 29 is National Coffee Day. How will you mark this most caffeinated of holidays? Here are some ideas: Buy some beans and make a difference Three Avocados is a non-profit coffee company whose  proceeds help bring clean water to Uganda. The coffee is darn good too, made with hand-picked 100% Arabica beans from Mt. [...]

Here’s the slide deck from my Twitter Tools session at yesterday’s MIMA Summit. Once again, I had a great time being part of this event. Special thanks to my session attendees for being so awesome!

Our July Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul featured a panel on small business and took place under a giant tent on the lawn of Deluxe corporate headquarters in Shoreview, MN. It was the subject of both the SMBMSP and Minnov8 Gang podcasts that month.

Mashable has proclaimed Wednesday June 30, 2010 as Social Media Day. “Why?” You ask. “Why not!” I say. They are calling it a day to celebrate the revolution of media becoming a social dialogue. Who am I to argue? To celebrate, they’ve planned meetups all over the world. Mashable knows how to party. If there’s [...]

June 2010 had been declared 30 Days of Creativity. The brainchild of “folks in the Minneapolis creative community,” it’s a social initiative encouraging people to create stuff, anything, every day for 30 days. I’m in so love with this idea and excited about the attention it’s generating. Of course I had to get involved, follow [...]

Here’s the presentation/discussion guide for the session I gave at MinneBar this morning. The participants helped generate a great conversation on the topic. Congrats to the MinneBar organizers for another stellar event! Social Web Design: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back View more presentations from Mykl Roventine.

Here’s the presentation deck I did today with Meg Canada at MinneWebCon. Thanks to the powers that be for having Meg and I back this year. MinneWebCon continues to be one of the best events in town. Already looking forward to next year! You’re So Money and You Don’t Even Know It: The Power of [...]

This week I’ve been auctioning off my services to support Cheerful Givers, a Minnesota nonprofit organization that provides toy-filled birthday gift bags to food shelves and shelters so that parents living in poverty can give their child a birthday gift. The gift bags are distributed to a food shelf or shelter, and placed in the [...]

I’m auctioning off my services to support Cheerful Givers, a Minnesota nonprofit organization that provides toy-filled birthday gift bags to food shelves and shelters so that parents living in poverty can give their child a birthday gift. The gift bags are distributed to a food shelf or shelter, and placed in the hands of children [...]