When Target announced that its next big designer collaboration would be with the Italian fashion house Missoni, fashionistas everywhere were thrilled at the prospect of scoring one the designer’s iconic zigzag knits—which usually retail for thousands of dollars—for around $40 a piece.

via Ad of the Day: Target’s Campaign for Its New Missoni Collection, With Margherita Missoni | Adweek.

I’ll be speaking at the Minnesota Real Estate Journal’s Interactive Marketing Summit this Friday, September 16, 2011 at the Golden Valley Country Club.  Look for me riffing about what real estate professionals can do to enhance their digital brand at the 8:25 AM ‘Web Optimization Strategies’ session.  I have the good fortune to share the stage which Brock Ray, Jake Dietrich and Andrew Steingas.

via Minnesota Real Estate Journal’s Interactive Marketing Summit.

“Sweet” Lou Snyder, Nye’s Polonaise Room, Minneapolis, MN, February 5, 2011

I’ve had the pleasure to work with the Twin Cities local AMA and AdFed chapters to brand some crazy and wonderfully successful events.  But, did you know (and this is for you out-of-towners) that Minnesota is also home to the oldest and one of the largest interactive marketing association in the country (maybe in the world).

We’ve got a tremendously creative culture here in Minnesota.  So, when my former Utne Reader colleague Jon Spayde of The Line asked me for my opinion of what makes Minneapolis and Saint Paul so special, I was happy to add my two cents.