With so many great panels to choose from, this Sunday will be the definition of Sunday, Funday! It was hard to choose, but here are my top picks for Sunday, March 13th at SXSWi. 9:30a Getting your Breakthrough Idea Approved By Decision Makers You don’t have to be VP of the company to turn out great […]
Josh Williams, creator and CEO of Gowalla Inc., was the Statesman’s Social Media Awards winner and chatted with Texas State student who were there supporting their professor, Cindy Royal. Royal was also a Social Media Awards winner. Check out the chat:
Web writing specialists Erin Anderson (Brain Traffic), Tiffani Jones (thingsthatarebrown LLC), Ian Alexander (Eat Media), and Dan Maccarone (Four Square) presented tips, ideas, and guidelines for web-optimized writing in their interactive panel, “Writing Web Content for a Living.” The panelists began by defining web writing as follows: Ian Alexander: Web writing is more than just […]
Our team prepares on early Sunday morning. This Sunday morning was particularly early, considering the time change… we lost an hour. We check in with Dr. Cindy Royal, our professor, and with our technology to make sure everything is charged, connected, and ready to capture, blog, post, tweet, stream, etc. Aside from the panels, […]
How does one go about writing on a panel entitled “Blah Blah Blah: Why Words Don’t Work”? Well, to apply recently learned knowledge, let me draw a picture of my problem: Dan Roam, of Back of the Napkin fame, discussed how verbal thinking has limited our problem solving skills for the past couple of centuries. […]
“It is 6a.m. and you are dreaming of electric sheep,” said Dan Willis, of SapientNitro. In the imagined future, when one wakes up from dreamland, he or she will simply thrust a hand into the air and digital sensors will project onto the hand an assortment of information including time, weather, family vital information, and […]
I couldn’t have said it better myself…”journalism is a sausage factory. It’s messy, but at the end it’s delicious!” Those words led off the panel, “Process Journalism: Getting it First, While Getting it Right.” It was a discussion of the ability to break news stories using technology, using social media and using citizen journalists. Jesus Diaz […]