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- Venue: ACC
Friday 11th March 2011
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Kristina Halvorson
Kristina Halvorson is the CEO and Founder of Brain Traffic. She will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to greet registrants and sign copies of her book, Content Strategy for the Web.
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Fireside Chat: Tim O'Reilly Interviewed by Jason Calacanis
by Jason Calacanis and Tim O'Reilly
In this intimate fireside chat, Calacanis interviews his personal publishing and pundit hero, Tim O'Reilly, about Tim O'Reilly. Typically Tim's the moderator or discussing a theory, but Tim's never discussed how he built O'Reilly, the Web 2.0 conference and himself, into the most respected technology publisher on the planet. Calacanis hopes to tease out the secrets of Tim's success, and how year-after-year, and decade-after-decade, he remains relevant and engaged. This panel is a first and a must for publishers, technologies, brand builders and thinkers.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Gamechanging: Turn Your App Into A Cooperative Game
by Thor Muller and Buster Benson
Game mechanics aren't just for games anymore. Designers of all social apps increasingly depend on gameplay to motivate users, and direct them towards goals. Organizations, too, use games to engage employees and customers to encourage full participation. Many familiar game mechanics are deeply rooted in competition, pitting people against each other using familiar elements like leaderboards and zero-sum rewards. But there's an alternative: cooperative games provide a wholly different palette to product designers that want to put their users on the same side of a goal.
Cooperative games are one way to build a smarter social web, one which organizes people to work together to accomplish really big things.
In this highly interactive session we'll actually play a cooperative game to demonstrate how they work. We'll trace these dynamics as they appear in board games (Pandemic, Lord of the Rings), knowledge games used in organizations for brainstorming and planning ("Gamestorming"), and social Web apps (KickStarter, Get Satisfaction).
The session will explore the specific mechanics that make this such an effective method for inspiring group performance.
- Victory conditions
- External conflicts
- Roles & special powers
- Required sharing
- Coordination & planning
- And occasionally...Traitors!LEVEL: Intermediate
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Help Save SXSW from Marketer Douchebaggery
by Ben Essen, Emily Hickey, Nihal Mehta, Ryan Daume and Zeb Dropkin
Is SXSWi in danger of being ruined by the influx of marketers to the conference?
Coming off of SXSWi 2010, Jolie O'Dell struck a cord with her post WHY SXSW SUCKS
"Too many people, not enough tech... dodging and evading these shallow douchebags... only to find swarms of douchebags showing up an hour or so after the location is made known..."We're bringing some smart, caring minds together to move the chatter in the halls into the light of a focused panel. The elephant in the room is being put on center stage. Can SXSWi adapt, or will it be overrun? Has the conference jumped the shark? Voices for both the techie/creator side and the marketer side will make up the panel.
We're aiming to land on solutions - this is not a bitch session. How can we address the challenges of a changing audience and optimize for the conference for valuable interactions? Are some social ground rules called for?What will the audience for SXSWi 2015 look like? Can we envision how that it could kick ass?
This challenge is not unique to SXSWi. We see communities struggling similarly to adapt and build value. We can learn from their mistakes and solutions.
This conference is as resilient as it's participants. If you show up, it will to.
LEVEL: Beginner
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How Not to Design Like a Developer
Open source projects, in particular, have long skimped on presentation and packaging (basically, they are the equivalent of "she has a great personality!" in the world of blind dating).
This talk is on how designer (graphic, UI & UX, all deft ninjas of the visual and editorial) organize and contribute their visual hacks to open source projects, working in tandem with engineers. Specifically, we'll look at how designers can get involved with Mozilla's Creative Collective, as well as how developers can leverage some of lessons learned by Mozilla's workflow and community-organizing techniques to foster their own design communities and inspire individuals to contribute to other open source projects of all sizes.
People who have contributed to or are working on an open source project, do so in an effort to create and distribute free software (free as in “free speech” v. free as in “drinks on me tonight!”*). This is a great opportunity to get involved with a team and movement (or start your own) that making a better and more awesome internet. As a bonus, contributing to open source is also a great way to enhance your portfolio, discover the brightest people, and create career-inspiring opportunities for yourself and your peers.
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How To Not Be A Douchebag at SXSW
by Ed Hunsinger, Laughing Squid and Amber Osborne
Back by popular demand! Whether you're a first-time SXSW Interactive attendee or a veteran, this humorous and informative conversation will help you make the most of SXSW. You'll learn what actions and behaviors to avoid so you don't get tagged as "doing it wrong". We'll also share advice on how to meet new people, navigate the parties, and have fun the without being "that guy/girl".
LEVEL: Beginner
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How to Rawk Out at SXSW Interactive
by Mark Couvillion, Christine Auten, Gianfranco Chicco, J Smith and Neil Petty
A light-hearted and informative introduction to optimizing your SXSW
experience (juggling parties, panels, getting around and staying
chargedup) from seasoned conference veterans.LEVEL: Beginner
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Improv Classes: Not Just for Comedians and Actors
by Brad Temple
Austin is a growing hotbed of improvisational theater. Many of the city's improvisational comedians work in the tech industry by day. This panel would explore the benefits of enrolling in improv comedy classes and how those benefits translate to additional success in your day job. Learn about basic improv philosophy and how it can enhance teamwork, spontaneity and adaptation to the ever-changing demands of our workplace.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Making Tomorrow Better Than Today is Hard Work
by Saul Griffith
People want the future for their children to be better than the past. We hear about "solutions" for climate change every day, but it often sounds like the future will be dismal. What really are solutions, how do we think about solving the whole problem, what are the actual numbers, how do we keep track of progress, and how do we make the future better than it is today?
LEVEL: Intermediate
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MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small
by Greg Verdino
In our age of information saturation, consumer attention is the scarcest commodity of all—which makes your job tougher than ever. How do you thread your messages through billions of bite-sized information snapshots to reach the right people? One thing’s for sure, you’re not going to succeed using traditional approaches. Mass marketing is dead; the next big thing is indeed very small. microMARKETING empowers you to rethink, retool, and revitalize your marketing strategies to take full advantage of the opportunities created by the microcontent explosion. A pioneer in the world of microcontent marketing, Greg Verdino helps you create a strategy that emphasizes relationships over reach, interaction over interruption, and social networking over broadcast networks.
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My Kindergartner Markets Better Than You
by Dave Peck and Kriselle Laran
Marketing is a fine line between sales and PR. This panel aims to focus on the rudimentary principles of marketing often overlooked by both new and established businesses. Special attention will be paid to "playground tactics" and ways that kids can influence others with far more success than adults.
Kids have a natural instinct for marketing - they learn early in life to bring enough for everyone, to become an expert at everything, and to share just enough to make the friends but not so much where they turn others away.
By approaching marketing like a five year old, brands can develop and maintain a strong identity and establish a role as an influencer in the industry. Applying concepts like bringing enough for everyone (appealing to a wide range of audiences), or staying out of detention (being marked as spam), brands too can become an expert at everything (establish itself as an industry leader).
A typical five-year-old can identify common commercial jingles and name the season's popular toys. Five minutes in a playgroup can result in families having to take a trip to the toy store because of the influence of other kids on their own children.
Kindergartners have a lot of influence. Its time to start following their lead and start learning the right way to approach marketing.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Programming and Minimalism: Lessons from Orwell & The Clash
by Jon Dahl
Programming is writing. A programmer's job is to express abstract ideas in a specific language - just like the poet, the essayist, and the composer. But while writers and composers spend years improving their style, many programmers think style stops with "two-space indentation". This needs to change.
This presentation will discuss style in music, writing, and software. We'll look at such diverse sources as George Orwell, Mozart, and punk music, and will find that much of art revolves around complexity and minimalism - just like software. Finally, we'll look at specific patterns and tools for writing software that is not just effective and efficient, but stylistically beautiful.
LEVEL: Advanced
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Rebooting Iceland: Crowdsourcing Innovation in Uncertain Times
by Gunnar Holmsteinn, Derek Lackaff, Dilja Amundadottir, Guojon Mar Guojonsson and Heida Helgadottir
In the US, social media innovators are changing the way people work and play. In Iceland, these innovators may offer the best hope of rescuing an entire nation.
Iceland emerged in the 1990s as a financial powerhouse after a thousand years on the sidelines of global history. Icelanders became one of the world’s wealthiest and happiest nations. In 2008, three of its banks collapsed, sending the national economy into a tailspin and shattering the people’s trust in government and industry. The government was quickly replaced by one promising transparency and reforms, while a protest party headed by a comedian took control of the Reykjavik city council.
This new cast of politicians is not alone in their efforts to move Iceland out from under the economic cloud. Members of the country's tech and entrepreneurial sector, which saw explosive growth in the lead-up to the collapse, have emerged as leaders in grassroots efforts to set Iceland on a sustainable path. Last year a loosely-organized group calling themselves the Anthill convened a “national assembly” of 1,500 citizens. The day-long event, based on Agile methods and crowdsourcing theory, resulted in a coherent set of values, vision and ideas.
Now the government is planning a similar meeting in preparation for rewriting the constitution. Inspired by open-source processes and leaning heavily on social media technologies, these citizens are rapidly prototyping new forms of democracy utilizing the web and open innovation.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Your Business + Social Mission = Happiness + Ka-Ching
To expect you to add social purpose to your business just because it’s a good thing to do is foolish. Whether you're an employee or owner, you have a bottom-line and other obligations to meet. But doing good is a business strategy, not merely a moral argument or trend. In this core conversation we'll talk about how your company--no matter its size, focus or budget--can profit from integrating a social mission, how to win support for new initiatives and where to begin. Learn how companies like Linden Labs and Interface used sustainability to differentiate themselves, drive innovation and cut costs.
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Your Meetings Suck and It's Your Fault
Your meetings are stale, remote, and awkward conversations. You know you rock, but not everyone in your meetings is rocking to the same tune. Sometimes you aren't even sure you are in the same rock band anymore.
After having one too many unproductive (and occasionally sleepy) meetings, Happy Cog reinvented it's approach to meeting design around interactive activities, informed conversation, and collaborative design exercises. Happy Cog’s Experience Director Kevin M. Hoffman will review the key ideas from the history of meeting design and good facilitiation, then explore approaches for meetings that have proven engaging and successful to Happy Cog clients.
This talk will cover business strategy and project definition activities, conflict resolution processes, big group/small group conversation management, simple research engagements, deliverable presentations, and finally, post mortems. Many expamples will be pulled from Happy Cog's meeting approaches for clients like ecommerce (Zappos, Groupon), tourism (VisitPhilly.com), higher education (Georgetown University, MICA), and museums (the National Holocaust Museum).
LEVEL: Beginner
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90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission
This is a talk about winning the nerd lottery: The luckiest fanboy in fandom gets a shot to spend three months with unfettered access to mission control--that’s a journalistic first and potential NASA no-no. It’s just your average summer trying to capture the story of 130 of the world’s best planetary scientists exploring the north pole of Mars. It’s a warts-and-all look at the Phoenix Mars mission and NASA’s space narrative from a regular guy who once dreamed of leaving the planet. We’ll focus our space story on a Martian photographer. “Don’t call me that,” Peter Smith, the world’s greatest Martian Photographer says. “And don’t make me look like some wacko mad scientist.” Peter has a hard enough time with the mission’s image as it is. Peter is particular about image because he knows how getting it right has the potential to inspire the next generation of adventurers. More than half his team is here because they grew up watching Apollo and Viking missions. “What’s going to inspire the next generation?” He wants to know. We all want to know.
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John Gerzema
by John Gerzema
John Gerzema will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to greet registrants and sign copies of his latest book, Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live.
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Kris Krüg
by Kris Krüg
Photographer Kris Krüg will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to meet fans and sign copies of his book, Killer Photos with Your iPhone.
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BattleDecks 2011
by Albert McMurry, Andrew Crow, Bryan Mason, David Cairns, Erika Hall, Jen Bekman, Jennifer Daniel, Joshua Cagan, Mike Monteiro, Molly Lewis and Nick Douglas
Battledecks is a laugh-riot rollercoaster of fun and nerves as several contestants try to put together coherent presentations from nonsensical Keynote decks. Previous contestants have laughed, cried, wet their pants and gotten impregnated during the show. The audience has a great time. Everyone goes home happy. Last year's show was a huge success, and we didn't even hand out free vuvuzelas to the audience.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Can You Trust Me?
It’s no secret that it’s been a tough time for some of the world’s most trusted brands—BP, Google and Facebook are just a few of the companies that have been recent victims of brand erosion. In the digital age, information (truth and hearsay alike) flows like water, opinions spread like wildfire—one day a brand is synonymous with trust for millions of people, the next day it’s being dragged through the digital mud by a few over a product recall or privacy violation. Unfortunately, it’s happening faster and with bigger implications and greater transparency than ever before. Consumers have stopped basing their trust of successful brands on the mere knowledge that they are financially successful—or because they run ads that inspire trustworthiness. In fact, it seems the very definition of “brand trust” is morphing as rapidly as technology is. More often, an increasingly-skeptical public is flocking to the web for real-time information and social network commentary posted by “officials” or by anyone else with an Internet connection and an axe to grind.
Paul Parkin, Founding Partner of SALT Branding and expert on brand building, will provide an overview of the ever-evolving “brandscape” and share strategies for building and maintaining brand trust online and offline. He will also discuss how to best redefine and measure brand trust across different generations—Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y—and why consumer collaboration will be key for marketers in the years to come.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Cops 3.0: The Future of Policing and the Internet
The internet has become a critical tool for law enforcement. This presentation will explore ways that it is being used for investigations and community outreach and will discuss privacy issues and controversies as well as the reach and limits of the law when police go online.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Do Agencies Need to Think Like Software Companies?
by Allison Mooney, Amanda Kelso, Matt Galligan, Rick Webb and Robert Rasmussen
Now that digital and mobile is a component of any innovative ad campaign, the question arises: How much do marketers need to know about technology? The truth is, advertisers and brand marketers are entering a brave new world -- one where code is on par with content. The 21st-century ad isn't something to be looked at, it's something to be used. Our reliance on mobile tools, such as apps, position them as the perfect vehicles for brands. "Consumers" are now "users." So are "marketers" now "developers"?
Enter the hybrid marketer. More and more agencies are finding they need to educate and cultivate a new breed of people who understand tech from a marketing and brand perspective, and who have a consumer mindset. These creative technologists also lend a software company vibe around an agency.
But should agencies really try this stuff at home? Should they be worrying about, say, the video capability of the latest iPhone? Or just stick to their core competencies and work with real software companies and development shops to realize their ideas? This panel will look at this new staffing paradigm and debate what the agency of the future should look like.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Fan to Fanatic: True Blood's Marketing Hook
by Erica Stall Wiggins, Liz Henderson, Sabrina Caluori and Zach Enterlin
Television series' such as True Blood start with a great idea, a great script, and great actors. But what happens between concept and phenomenon? HBO has capitalized on the momentum the show has gained throughout the first three seasons with some of the most creative marketing campaigns ever, including a Tru Blood drink campaign for a beverage that had yet to exist, creative that “hacked reality” and spoke to the vampires living among us, a Jessica Hamby character video blog, opposing web sites for the American Vampire League and Fellowship of the Sun, and merchandise ranging from Lafayette's "L" necklace to Sookie's Merlotte's apron. Attendees will follow the story of True Blood from the inception of the series through the creation of the "immersion" fan experience through the mediums of Print, Television and the Internet. They will learn the selling points, the marketing tools and the magic that "turn" fans into fanatics.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Folkways These Days: Crafty Knowledge in Digital Networks
by Collin Farill, Nathan Kreuter and William Burdette
With the rise of the virtual has come a renewed interest in the material. Evidence of this renewed interest is everywhere in pop culture, from steampunk to Maker Faire, from Readymade to Make to Etsy, from yarn bombing to LED throwies. We see it in craft: the handmade mandolin, the carefully stitched quilt, the custom cabinet. We see it in the vinyl resurgence and the newfound nostalgia for the mix tape. We see it in the Bamboo Bike Studio. We see it in the resurrection of Polaroid film by the IMPOSSIBLE project. Even as we go further into digital culture, we’re getting up from the computer to hold stuff, to make stuff, to shake stuff. And yet, there’s a sense that renewed interest in the material is facilitated by digital networks. That is, we go online to learn about craft, to meet-up with makers, to feed our fetishes. We send pictures of our creations from our digital devices to our social networks. All over the Web non-technical people are using new media to create, arrange, redesign, archive, and distribute their crafts. As they do, new techno-folkways are being passed down not only via new tools and networks, but also--as William Graham Sumner writes in his seminal book, Folkways--by "tradition, imitation, authority.” Folkways--the paths worn by mild social pressure--are being trod online. This panel will explore the various crossroads where craftwork meets network, with special attention paid to bridging the digital divide in rural America.
LEVEL: Beginner
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HackingWork: Why Good Work Means Breaking the Rules
by Bill Jensen
Business is broken. We gotta fix it. Together, in this session, we'll start doing just that. Hacking Work is about exposing the cheat codes for work that we found while interviewing an underground army of benevolent hackers — working around business's stupid rules.
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Marissa Mayer Presentation
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Matt Mullenweg Interview: The Future of WordPress
by Matt Mullenweg and John Battelle
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Play at Work: Agile Games for Productive Teams
Get together with other conference attendees and play games in this unique participatory interaction. If you are curious about Agile development and want an insider view of the activities Agile teams do every day, this session is for you.
A special emphasis will be placed on experiential learning through Agile games and exercises, such as "Story Writing" and "Planning Poker," in this hands-on, interactive session.
Learn first-hand how games and other Agile tools and techniques can be successfully adopted by project teams, resulting in rapid delivery and improved teamwork. Participants will be strongly encouraged to share their own experiences and learn from each other in this session.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Social Games: Manipulating Your Brain Chemistry, For Good
by Adam Penenberg, Brenda Gershkovitch, Jason Brown, Margaret Wallace and Michael Fergusson
Generally speaking, there's an assumption that casual games are a waste of time. What can playing a "meaningless" Facebook game for a few minutes really accomplish, anyways? Do I really need to "rescue" another "sheep"? Another point of view is that they're a little bit sinister, manipulating you into emptying your wallet, or giving up personal information. But perhaps both positions are missing the point. This new genre we call "Casual Social Games" represents a fascinating opportunity to better understand our own behavior, and to direct it, intentionally, for our own benefit, and for the greater good of society.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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The New Frontier of Social Gaming
In this talk, Brian will discuss the typical social gamer and how this profile has evolved in the last year. 2009 was about introducing social gaming to the mainstream. In 2010, social gaming has gone mainstream with 65 million people playing FarmVille alone. 2009 was about introducing social gaming to the mainstream. In 2010, the quality bar has gone up with the release of games like FrontierVille, which hit 20 million users in its first forty days. This talk is targeted towards social game developers. In the talk, Brian would discuss the innovation and mechanics it takes to build fun, viral and engaging social games.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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