By Leslie Ornelas Evonne Heyning is the CCO and founder of Amoration. The company is based in Los Angeles, California. According to Amoration’s website, the company’s name means living in love and a practice of open engagement. The company provides experienced production teams for mixed reality, virtual worlds and educational interactive experiences. Amoration also studies […]
By Leslie Ornelas Jeff Beckham’s SXSW panel, Freelance isn’t Free: The Twisited Economics of Writing Today, seems to come at the most appropriate time when struggling newspaper are looking for freelance writers instead of full-time reporters. Beckham graduated from the University of Texas with a journalism degree and spent the early years of his career […]
Nearly everyone could use some advice on improving their memory. SXSW Interactive panelist, Mark Channon can help. On his panel, titled: “Memory Matters! How Do Elephants Do It?,” Channon will show you how to unleash creativity, consume information and take away tools you can instantly put into practice. The above video is a Skype interview […]
By Trey Hatt Not all of us have to drop thousands of dollars on Web development software to go out and make a living as a pioneer on the ever-expanding digital frontier. Jeff Eaton, a Web architect at Lullabot who builds Websites on the Drupal CMS platform and trains other people who want to do […]
I’m happy to announce that our SXTXState project won an award in the AEJMC Best of the Web competition. We took 2nd place in the Journalism category, and I was told that there were > 30 entries in the category. We worked very hard last March, and I’m extremely proud of the efforts of the […]
John Slabyk, Obama for America’s Art Director and Scott Thomas, the campaign’s New Media Design Director were the panelists for Designing Change in America. Both men were introduced to the campaign in a quick meeting. The campaign said they wanted to take advantage of both print and web platforms. They said they knew they would […]
One of the most effective ways to create an effective, engaging branding strategy is by crafting a story. This approach has helped many companies like Coca-Cola and AutoTrader.com. Sapient’s Director of Global Marketing, Charles Sayers spoke about this concept during SXSW. His panel was titled “Brand Noir: Crafting a Who-Why-How Dunnit”. Sayers worked on […]