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Preview: Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War

Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War Saturday, March 9, 3:30PM – 4:30PM Austin Convention Center, Room 5ABC [View the story “Citizen Journalists in Cartel Run Mexico Turn to Twitter” on Storify] The complex relationship the United States has with its southern neighbor, Mexico, is the often the subject of reports on crime, immigration […]

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Preview: How & Why to Travel Around the World

How & Why to Travel Around the World Tuesday, March 12 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Sheraton Austin Capitol View South Andy Stoll has lived in a Buddhist Temple, worked at a dress factory in Bangkok, learned about ranching in a remote town of Austrailia and was a farmer in Zambia. He’s only 26. “I […]

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Preview: Latinos y Mobile: A Silver Bullet?

Latinos y Mobile: A Silver Bullet? Austin Convention Center, Room 5ABC Friday, March 8, 5:00PM – 6:00PM It’s hard to imagine life before smartphones, but barely seven years ago, the iPhone was only a twinkle in Steve Jobs’s eye. Today, over half of U.S. mobile phone users utilize smartphones. Without a doubt, the future of […]

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Japanese style of animation or Anime has grown from a small niche market of viewers to more ever growing and evolving audience. Another trend within the world of outrageous hairdo’s and intense action within this world of Anime is the collaboration between different forms of media.

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People with crazy colored hair and unnatural, overly expressive eyes put into outrageous situations, the character-driven and fast-paced action of Anime has morphed from an American import to a booming entertainment industry. Anime is the Japanese style of cartoons with a prominent artistic style of characters with spiked hair and sharply pointed chins.  Most Anime’s […]

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Selling Sub-Culture without Selling Out

There is something amazing about listening to different people with different experiences and different expertise talk about the same thing.  It is especially amazing when the topic is as tough as the one of creating relationships between sub-cultures and the corporate world.  It all came together at the Sunday afternoon at the Selling Sub-Culture without […]