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SXSW Interactive: March 13-17, 2009
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The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital
creatives & visionary tech entrepreneurs, it celebrates the best minds and brightest
personalities of emerging technology. SXSW is a community-driven event. So, knowing what topics you want to
hear next March is extremely important. Your vote counts! Voting closes on Aug 29. |
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| Below is a list we've compiled of speakers and panels from your n'hood. Like the topic? Friend of the
panelist? Go vote for them! :) If we have missed adding you to the list email us at gary at garysguide.org |
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| Panel Topics Submitted By Speakers From Los Angeles |
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Change the World in 5 Easy Steps
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| Presenter: Sean Bonner, seanbonner.com |
| Revolution begins at home, this will focus on 5 easy
things you can do personally that will actually have an effect on a global level. Go vegan, ride a bike, stop buying crap, visit a different country, do something you love
rather than something that pays the bills. Wake up and live. |
| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1829 |
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How LA Has Built A Sucessful Tech Community
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| Sloane Berrent, Causecast |
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Los Angeles has become a hub for tech startups with new ones popping up every day. Relationships are being formed
and VCs are paying attention. Universities are showcasing developer opportunities unique to the city. So how did this
happen? Welcome to networking 2.0. From Lunch 2.0 to Interactive Community Coalitions, BarCamp to Twiistup, LA is a
great case study of how to build a successful tech community in your city. Join the organizers of the city.s most
popular networking events for tips, advice, the how to.s and what-not-to-do.s to make your city.s community pop.
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1523 |
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Hacking Literature: The Web as Storytelling Platform
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| Jay Bushman, The Loose-Fish Project |
| As Alternate Reality Games degenerate into little more than viral marketing, is there a way to use the tools of the
genre as a pure storytelling format, separate from games and advertising? How can use use web-based media as a
surface for telling a story, rather than merely a channel to distribute content? |
| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1554 |
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Social Networks Inside Companies: Brilliant Idea or
FAIL?
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| Michael Pusateri, Walt Disney Company |
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Social networks are ubiquitous on the internet. With Millennials/Gen Y numbers rising in the
workforce, can companies use internal social networks to their advantage? Will older employees
participate? Do benefits of social networks, weblogs, Web 2.0 style sharing, tagging, and rating
outweigh the risks to confidentiality and productivity?
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1709 |
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Future of Community: Engaging Online Communities
Offline
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| Michael Lambie, Nielsen Company |
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Much startup success relies on engaging rich & diverse communities online. A new breed of communities are meeting
their users offline. They're hosting meetups, events & parties to engage parties in real life. Can you sustain
communities with the millennial crowd without meeting them offline?
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/867 |
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Girl Gaming Goes Mainstream: Cliches, Reality, and
Community
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| Presenter: Mike Prasad, GirlGamer.com |
| Representing around 40% of gaming market, females are a high growth demographic that can't be ignored. Take a look at
the changes in the female gaming scene, who they REALLY are, which companies have failed and succeeded, and what can
be learned from interacting with the communities that have sprung up to represent them in the past year. |
| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1692 |
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Chaos Theory: Global Blog Network Politics & Scaling
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| Presenter: Sean Bonner, Metblogs |
| In the five years we've been running Metblogs we've
made more than our fair share of mistakes and walked headfirst
into crazy problems. We'll share some of those including managing a massive publishing platform with no staff,
international politics, raising money, and more. What we've learned, and what we'd do differently. |
| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1834 |
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Web 3.0: Images and Political Activism
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| Virginia Kuhn, Institute of Multimedia
Literacy, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California |
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While many note the ways in which Web 2.0 technologies.from blogs to YouTube.encourage widespread political
activism, this panel speculates about how such engagement changes once average people can "speak" with images,
looking specifically at the Remix America site, which is powered by a collaborative video editing platform.
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1070 |
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Design Methodology: Where Neuro, Market Research &
Usability Collide!
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| michael lambie, Nielsen Company |
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A simple discussion on modern design usability testing covering how modern brain wave imaging techniques paired
with eye-tracking and galvonic skin response, along with traditional methods of market research and usability can
sharpen up your content.
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1757 |
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Mindshare: Emerging Technologies Get Social!
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| Doug Campbell, Mindshare |
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Doug Campbell runs a monthly event in LA called 'Mindshare'(mindshare.la). Each month, besides diverse presentations,
Mindshare's tech team presents new technologies that encourage interaction between attendees: Flickr walls, Laser
Graffiti, Chumby Spies, SMS Voting and Message boards, Wii hacks, Neuro-feedback games, augmented reality and more...
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1686 |
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Tuxedos, Whales, Dances: The REALLY Mobile Web
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| Doug Campbell, The Tuxedo Travels |
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The Tuxedo Travels, The Whale Hunt, Where The Hell Is Matt... Projects like these have proved it's possible to travel
to some extreme destinations - and STILL manage to share your content with the world. Doug Campbell, Matt Harding and
Jonathan Harris share their experiences and the ups and downs of their bizarre adventures...
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1694 |
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An Anthropological Perspective of Online Communities
and Social Media
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| Eric Schlissel, Eric Schlissel |
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Cultural anthropology will become increasingly important, as culture pools form online. We must study a culture
before interacting to achieve our goals, whether messaging, management or motivation. We.ll explore the
identification of norms, values, mores and symbols; establish practices of building targeted campaigns and outreach,
and methodologies of creating ethnographies.
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| http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1984 |
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