SXSWi
Interview With Lindsay Stillman
Lindsay Stillman is Senior Producer at GSD&M. During SxSwi 2011, she is acting as a “Surrogate” for GSD&M. “Surrogates” are the title given to GSD&M employees who go out and actively participate in SxSw. Afterward, it is their duty to come back to the agency and report what they saw, learned & discovered to the […]
Interview at Gowalla
I got to meet Josh Williams, Co-Founder of Gowalla, which was amazing! In this interview, Andrew Waldrup, Texas State graduate & Gowalla employee, explains Gowalla’s presence at SxSw. The Gowalla airstream is up on 5th street in between Trinity and San Jacinto. Gowalla and crew were on site handing out awesome T-shirts and passports for […]
All Grown-up: Brand Mascots in the Digital Age
Don't Get Sued: A Guide for Content Creators
If rule number one for content creators is to make amazing content, then rule number two is don’t get sued! Josh Sussman, counsel for CollegeHumor, Koethi Zan, counsel for MTV and Luke Paglia, counsel for American-Eagle marketing all spoke about legal issues the content creators need to understand. The panelists were quick to point out that this […]
SXSWi Interview with Trevor Yager of TrendyMinds
SXSW Interactive has proven to be a huge success yet again. I had the pleasure of interviewing Trevor Yager who is the owner of TrendyMinds out of Indianapolis, Indiana. We were able to get his perspective on the event, including a few of his favorite panels and discuss his invitation from the President and First […]
Biking to Change the World, and Save Lives
Sitting in a room full of people, you can tell the bikers from the non-bikers. Skinny jeans are dead giveaway, as well as the choice of pullover outerwear, and those who are wet from the ride on a rainy Austin day to the Austin Convention Center for the last day of SXSWi. What do we […]