Social Shopping: the Influencer Tech Driving Billions

Amber Venz Box is the Co-Founder and President of rewardStyle and the cross-channel consumer shopping service, LIKEtoKNOW.it. Venz Box’s first foray into the online fashion world was a blog she started back in 2010. She then realized that she needed to make money off that blog and thus rewardStyle was born in 2011. RewardStyle is […]

Organize the World: Design Your Life to Spark Joy

Marie Kondo folded clothes on stage with such grace and precision today at her panel Organize the World: Design Your Life to Spark Joy. Sparking Joy is Kondo’s number one philosophy when it comes to tidying up. Marie Kondo invented and has perfected the life-changing KonMari method. She became a household name in the United […]

SXSW: Cole Sprouse and KJ Apa

Celebrity alert! After catching some lunch at the Burger Bar on Congress in Downtown Austin, I casually passed by Cole Sprouse and KJ Apa, cast members of Riverdale on the CW, and was able to chat with them to see what they were doing at SXSW. Not only was I able to breathe in their presence, […]

e.l.f. Beauty Break @ SXSW Style

SXSW is known for all the craziness and loudness that happens throughout the entire week, but what happens when you want a break from it all? The best part about SXSW is that it offers every person something to love. Being a part of the SXTXState team is not only amazing and rewarding, but it […]

Augmented Reality and Urban Revitalization

Who all had a very unorthodox summer spent chasing virtual monsters around town? If you are like me and did just that last summer or maybe longer, then you can blame John Hanke for that. Pokémon Go is the brainchild of Niantic Inc. This Augmented Reality and Urban Revitalization panel featured Mona Lalwani of Engadget, […]

Echo Chambers: Healing Our Social Media Algorithms

“Echo chambers” is a hot term in this post-election world we live in. There’s little debate they exist – these bubbles we live in, primarily on social media, full of groupthink – or the role social networks like Facebook play in forming them, but there’s been little discussion on solutions for this problem. Enter Claire […]

From YouTube Star to Media Company Co-Founder: Casey Neistat

Casey Neistat, YouTuber with over 1 billion views and entrepreneur, spoke about his career evolution in the film and tech industry today at SXSW Interactive. He began his panel introducing the “Tarzan Method” which in short means; there is no magical straight path that will lead us into reaching our goals and aspirations in life. In […]