To tweet a source, or not to tweet a source, that is the question. In the age of an overwhelming number of social media platforms the panel, Souces in the Social Media Age discussed the relationship between sources and social media. The panelists included Edmund Lee from Bloomberg news. Greg Galant, creator of Muck Rack […]
Let’s talk about change. That’s exactly what Dr. Mario Garcia says we absolutely must do at SXSW Interactive: talk about how we in the media industries adapt to change. Founder and CEO of Garcia Media, Garcia joined the Poynter Institute’s Sara Quinn and Smart Media Creative’s Dave Stanton Friday on a panel exploring recent studies […]
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 […]
Sources in the Social Media Age Saturday, March 9 9:30AM – 10:30AM Austin Convention Center, Room 12AB The use of social media as a source has become a massive trend. In the United States 55 percent of journalists use platforms like Twitter and Facebook as sources, 75 percent use them in the UK. Although this […]
Designing for Real-Time Marketing Saturday, March 9 5:45PM – 6:00PM Hilton Austin Downtown After the Super Bowl, more people were talking about the Oreo ad that popped up during the 34-minute blackout than ads that cost millions of dollars. This incident flawlessly illustrates real-time marketing and events like this are causing people in the industry […]
Disaster: The Future of Crisis Communications Friday, March 8 3:30PM – 4:30PM Austin Convention Center Room 9ABC Lieutenant Ana Visneski has dealt with many of the major water related disasters Mother Nature has thrown our way in recent years. She has served as Public Information Officer for numerous Hurricane disasters and has designed and provided crisis […]
If you are in the design field it’s highly likely you are comfortable with ambiguity, you do whatever it takes to get the job done, and you are consistently playing scenarios out in your mind and turning these scenarios into something visually appealing. Even with this comfort with ambiguity, many designers do not present their […]