http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:15:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week Blake was down in Chicago for Techcocktail and had a chance to sit down with Gary Burtka, the Director of Marketing for Newser.com. Newser aggregates news from many different sources and lets users view human-generated summaries of the news stories. http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=319 This week Ryan interviews Scott Manley of FYIndout, the central place for professionals to find and promote business applications and services. Find out more at FYIndout.com! http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=316 Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=1 ActionsTalk #26 - Thief Wine This week Blake and Ryan got to go down to Thief Wine at the Milwaukee Public Market in the 3rd ward to taste some wine and chat with Phil of Thief Wine. This is a great entrepreneurial story of following your passion and providing your customer with ... http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=310 This week, Blake caught up with Milwaukee's own John "The Nickname Guy" Leaf. John talks about the idea behind his forthcoming book about nicknames and the stories behind them. John is collecting these stories in a number of ways, one of which is Nicknamestories.com. Check it out! You ... http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=303 ActionsTalk #24 - Unigo.com Ryan hooked up with Jordan Goldman, CEO and Founder of Unigo.com to see what they've been up to. After launching in mid-December and 9 months of public beta they've covered the top 250 colleges and are service huge amounts of information to college seekers world wide. http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=302 Happy New Year from ActionsTalk! We've been on a brief hiatus for the holiday season, but now we're back with a fresh crop of startup spotlights! This week, Blake met up with Amanda Guralski, founder of bizMe.biz, at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Amanda discusses everything from how she ... http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=301 This Week Blake and Ryan met up with Cd Vann, the founder of Magazine SOHO and Sohobiztube.com.  Cd talks about the challenges she's faced so far and about how she leverages her social networks (online and in person) for reinforcement. Cd has been instrumental in supporting the growth of many ... http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=300 ActionsTalk chats with Jenae of GirlInYourShirt.com about how she started the biz, how she got on TechCrunch, and where she's going from here! http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=299 ActionsTalk #20 - Steve Glynn of Spreenkler Steve Glynn chose ActionsTalk to be the first new media outlet for his big news! Spreenkler, which started out as a networking group and has now morphed into so much more, just won the Wired grant for $120k for the purpose of growing and ... http://www.facebookyearbook.com/actionstalkstaging/?p=298