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My work for the Minnesota Susan G. Komen Affiliate office has continued since my initial November post. 

I think the most important part of the process, so far, has been the discussions with the affiliate co-chairs. They had some questions, some fears and some reservations -

Discussions with white-label microsharing SaaS, called Headmix begin in Spring 2008. (I first wrote about this work here.) After six months of discussions, decisions and integration work, BlueShirt Nation (BSN) Mix went live to all Best Buy employees this week.

The original use case that prompted this integration has been joined by countless possibilities. The first public news of BSN Mix helped to quickly identify test volunteers and the uncovering of new use cases that we might not have conceived.

Now it's on. BSN Mix was on a staging site for about three weeks. Stage testers were solicited directly and put the site through it's paces. We learned a lot!

Twitter is Therapy

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I have been called “long winded” and “verbose” by my friends. It's a curse. I want to get better - be concise - listen more.

With just 140 characters of space, I've been told I'm getting better.

Thanks, Twitter.

The Minnesota affiliate for the Susan G. Komen Foundation recognized the potential benefit to participate in some social networking spaces.  I feel fortunate to be helping them step into this world and really beleive that putting a more personal face on the Twin Cities Race for the Cure.

“In many cases, your workers are your market. Come out of the bunker once in a while and see what they're up to – it could be your future. Sometime soon, companies will have to open up significant portions of their intranets while still protecting their few genuine secrets in order to create relationships with the market rather than barriers against them. Otherwise they're saying in effect, 'We know everything we need to know. Why would should we look beyond our own borders?' That's just plain wrong and everybody knows it - especially your workers and your customers. Companies that