Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Networking with audio

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Friday 9th March 2012

• Raise Your Profile Using SXSW

  by Theda Sandiford, Brian Zisk, Hugh Forrest and Evan Cohen

  It takes a lot of money and effort to get to SXSW. Now that you've made it to Austin for the big event, what are the tips, tricks, and best practices you can use to effectively raise your profile?

  • Careers
  • Networking
  • SXSW

  At 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 12AB, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip

Sunday 11th March 2012

• Connected Living Rooms, Contentious Networks

  by Jim Cady, Santi Pierini, Sebastian Haley, Philip Kearney and Blake Lewin

  The celestial jukebox. Cloud gaming. On-demand movies on your mobile phone. The dream of having all the entertainment you want as soon as you want it, has never been so close. There’s just one catch: network contention. You know it by many forms: A spinning hourglass; a “Buffering” window; a stuttering video. Though full of promise, cloud-based, streaming entertainment is still a long way from the seamless, instant response we’ve come to expect from a DVD player or a console game system.

  Why the slow-down? Part of it has to do with delays on the open Internet. But a surprising amount of it has to do with technology embedded in our TVs, home networks and set-top boxes. The explosion in entertainment is stressing our home networking technology to its limits. Every application wants all your bandwidth at the same time. It’s the “tragedy of the commons” right in your living room.

  But help is on the way. In this panel, leading experts on home networking and media distribution will reveal the sometimes surprising causes of streaming media hiccups in the home, and technologies that could make buffering delays a thing of the past.

  • Connected
  • Entertainment
  • Networking
  • Wireless

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Sabine, Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown

  Coverage audio clip

Tuesday 13th March 2012

• Creating Relationships That Matter

  by Mike Muhney

  Successful business depends on successful relationships. While a social media strategy may contribute to success, it is never the primary reason for success or failure. Wherever you fall on the spectrum of many-to-many all the way to one-to-one, you need more than a social network. The interactions leading up to that “magical handshake” often occur behind the scenes, not on social media platforms. Converting contacts from your social network to your personal network creates the momentum that leads to lasting value. Better still, capitalizing on the orbital, or extended, networks of those in your personal network allows you to extend your reach beyond those whom you know to those whom you need to know…and those who stand to benefit from an awareness of you and what you have to offer. Organized, disciplined contact management that helps you make the most of the details you learn about people. In any field, those little details don’t mean a lot—they mean everything! Mike Muhney will share how to find opportunities to reach out to the people in your network—and the people in their networks—in ways that offer true value to others. He’ll provide practical tips on making your personal networks, well, personal.

  • Networking
  • Social Media

  At 9:30am to 9:50am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Ballroom G, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage note audio clip