In December it was minus 28 degrees outside so I made my Amazon Echo Dot say nasty things about the weather. I shot a quick video and posted it on Facebook to humor my friends. It quickly took off, it has been shared 1700 times and viewed over 125k times.
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Amazon’s Alexa technology has been around for a few years, but the Echo Dot has changed who is going to be buying them. At around $50, it includes the full Alexa brain, compared to $180 for the original Alexa Echo. Read more
So last fall I made an outreach to Paul Singh and asked him to bring his Airstream and Results Junkies Road Tour to Sioux Falls — and he agreed. The cost to bring Paul’s Road Tour here is $5,000, and I was confident enough that I could find sponsors to cover that cost that I personally put up the money. I am passionate about our community and honored to having Paul come. Read more
Are you ready for a career change? Code Bootcamp of South Dakota is accepting student applications.
During our first eighteen months of operation, Code Bootcamp has trained fifteen entry-level web developers for our region through three boot camps. Of those fifteen students, almost half have been women, three moved from other states to attend, one was a high school student, three are now pursuing additional higher education, and all are self-employed or working in their field. Businesses that have hired our graduates include Sterling E-Marketing, Power Drive Holdings, Meta Payment Systems, VVI, and Midcontinent.
My book, Wired For Coding, has a 5-star rating on Amazon. With well over 200 copies out in the world, I thought I would offer a discount price over the Black Friday holiday (Friday through Wednesday), allowing everyone else to grab a copy. Read more
Little changes over time. Businesses try to sell. Consumers try to ignore them. Platforms are created to bridge the gap. Marketing firms get creative. Platforms constantly change the rules. We all loose.
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