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By: Aaron Weiche

Aaron Weiche — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:17:53 +0000

Thanks Tami for adding your vote of support! Things are looking good for Local U coming to MN.

By: Tami

Tami — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:30:31 +0000

Would love to see this come to Minneapolis. Please please do!

By: Aaron Weiche

Aaron Weiche — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:45:18 +0000

Great to hear from you Rick. Exactly what you mentioned is what I have communicated to the Local U folks. The Twin Cities social/web/tech community is full of fantastic groups and orgs.

Combining the efforts to reach out to the business community as a whole and bring them into this opportunity is huge win for them and our industry. Everyone gains so much. I look forward to talking about this more with you.

By: Rick Mahn

Rick Mahn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:11:22 +0000

Great concept, and as you all mention, MSP is a wonderful place to do things like this. As a couple of you have mentioned on Twitter this week, SMBMSP would love to help work something like this out.

My request as this moves forward is to include as many organizations as is feasible to make this work. MIMA and SMBMSP were mentioned, and I’d like to suggest we use the strengths of each of these types of groups to make this idea succeed. As founder of SMBMSP my interest in this is obvious, but what I really would like is to reduce the fragmentation of events and audience interest for any event.

I guess this point goes back to the idea of merging tribes.

Anyway, let me know what I can do to help.

Cheers,
Rick

By: Aaron Weiche

Aaron Weiche — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:07:39 +0000

@ Paul – You’re right. There is no shortage of event support in our industry. I think if we fostered that across all small & med biz industries here, a great many would attend and benefit from Local U.

As you noted, this group has some serious local search cred.

@ Jeff – Thanks for the support, I’ll be looking to get any and all help, especially on the buzz/promo side when we lure this to MSP.

By: Jeff Sauer

Jeff Sauer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:56:37 +0000

Aaron – count me in for support/attendance/presenting/paneling too when the event comes to town. Let me know if you need any help getting things organized.

By: Paul Jahn

Paul Jahn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:18:45 +0000

Count me in as just one more who would love to see the event in the Minneapolis area. Events like ones put on from MIMA and SMBMSP are always packed and everyone comes out learning a ton.

Aaron mentions this and I’ll second. The presenters are top notch and know their local.

By: Aaron Weiche

Aaron Weiche — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:39:10 +0000

@ Mike – Thanks for the support, agreed on all fronts.

@ Jeff – The speakers had so much to share, it’s amazing to pack it into 4 hours.

@ Brad – Yes, the Twin Cities is a great web/tech scene as well as a vibrant business community. I let the Local U team know that these things make us the perfect stop for an event here.