Tag Archives: SXSWi
A night of personal improv-ment
After a week of unusual nights out– featuring trampolining, Balkan and Israeli folk dancing and ukulele to name three – tonight had the potential to be the weirdest yet. The Box of Frogs theatre impro workshop is held in Moseley, … Continue reading
Five things I gained at SXSW 2010
After posting about the 12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010, here’s a more practical roundup of the things I came away with. I gained… * …some content strategy contacts This was one of my main reasons for attending. Content … Continue reading
12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010
I learnt… * …that Austin looks awesome from the 33rd floor Fringe events outside of the main SXSW programme are occurring all the time. I just found out today for example that there were THREE Twitter parties (not just the … Continue reading
SXSW Wordle spells ‘Content people want’
I took 16 pages of notes at SXSW Interactive festival this year. It’s hard to get your head around all the difference panels, talks, core conversations and notes-to-self but I think this Wordle shows something of what I was getting … Continue reading
SXSW – the Glastonbury of conferences
A little SXSW diary catchup… It’s the halfway point of SXSW Interactive and I’m still gearing up into this festival to end all web festivals. Here’s my personal/business mission statement for this year’s event – slightly different from last year … Continue reading
I am attending these keywords in 2010: SES, SXSWi and CSForum
Somehow I’ve lined up a conference a month for the next three months. Here are their taglines, blurbs and what I’m aiming to do at each one: Search Engine Strategies 2010 London, UK, 15-19 February Tagline: The Original Search Engine … Continue reading
Couchsurfing in the USA (or how to cut costs at SXSWi)
Typical. I wait six months to write my Austin, Texas, feature after visiting South By South West Interactive and then go on holiday just when it’s published. It went in the Sunday Mercury travel section on 4th October 2009 to … Continue reading
SXSWi: Monday teh 16th
Spent all day in Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator where the cream of the internet start-ups compete via 2-min elevator pitches to be crowned winner in their category. Kind of a Crufts for online business. Best in show were: Innovative Web technologies … Continue reading
Hashtag Kebab aka ‘the art of conference jacking’
Undoubtedly the best twitter hashtag of SXSWi, #kebab quickly became the WTF session of the whole interactive festival. Set up by School of Everything, Tuttle, Fix My Street and others, it was a word-of-twitter-mouth, rogue, wind-up unpanel that took over … Continue reading
SXSWi: Sunday the 15th
11.30am Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities The language of the internet is lagging behind the tech and culture changes… which is presumably why ‘whuffie’ has been picked from a sci-fi story from the creator of Boing Boing … Continue reading
