How to Win a Tekne Award

Written by Mike Ellsworth   

Tekne Awards 2009
Tekne Awards 2009

On October 22, 2009, CareerOneStop , the program I manage, was the recipient of a Tekne award , presented by the Minnesota High Tech Association. We’ve all been in shock since then, and finally I’ve got the time to blog about the experience. We were up against strong entrants in the IT-Software & Hardware, Communications and Infrastructure category: Imation and QLogic Corporation.

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Good news, bad news regarding Twitter rank

Written by Mike Ellsworth   

Today I went on over to Twitter Grader and checked myself out.

The good news is, I’m in the top 4 percent of Twitterers!

The bad news is, that means my rank is 234,399 out of a total of 5,233,919 Twitterers. Now I know that being in the top 4 percent of anything is a good thing, but the ego gets dented a little when you realize there’s more than a quarter of a million folks who are more, er, more what, exactly? More betterer? More twitteringer? More in-need-of-finding-a-life-offline?

Anyway, I’m going to revel in my lofty status while seeing if I can climb that ladder.

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