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Dave Matthews Band Listening Party
My name is Holly Hinton and I work on the Starbucks Entertainment team. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog specifically for our partners (employees). I offered all partners who responded to my blog within 24 hours the chance to hear the new Dave Matthews Band album and host a listening party in their store before the CD even launches! Over the course of the day, 18 partners responded to the blog with excitement and enthusiasm for the new album. If you are also a Dave Matthews Band fan, I encourage you to check the list of ‘winning’ stores below and see if your local Starbucks will be hosting a listening party! If your store is not on the list, be sure you pick up your own copy of “Big … more »
The New CD/DVD at Your Local Starbucks
Some of you may have noticed a new CD on the shelf at your local Starbucks called Playing for Change- Songs Around the World . I wanted to write a blog here on MyStarbucksIdea about Playing for Change (PFC) to share a little bit about the purpose and inspiration behind this CD. PFC is a result of Grammy winning producer-engineer Mark Johnson’s decade-long travel aimed at connecting the world through music. Using innovative mobile technology, Johnson and his crew filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians spanning five continents. Each captured performance created a new mix in which essentially the artists are all performing together, although they are hundreds of miles apart. PFC is available … more »
TWISI-tter
Hi, my name is Thomas Prowell and I was the editor of “The Way I See It” here at Starbucks, a program that many of you have had ideas about. If you don't know it, “The Way I See It” – or TWISI (pronounced "twizzy") as we liked to call it within Starbucks –was a series of quotes from all sorts of interesting people that appeared on our paper cups from 2005 until earlier this year. Well, Chris Anderson, curator of TED (a conference of leading thinkers in technology, entertainment and design) and author of TWISI #95, has thought up a nifty way to continue the TWISI conversation in this Web 2.0 era. He's asked people to come up with their own … more »
My Starbucks Idea Maintenance on Saturday
This weekend My Starbucks Idea will be down due to site maintenance starting at 7 pm the evening of Saturday, May 2. Please visit us again on Sunday to share your ideas! Thanks

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