Archive for March, 2008:

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Creating Findable Rich Media Content

{ Posted on Mar 31 2008 by annegentle }
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Here are my notes for the Creating findable rich media content session at SXSW Interactive. Listen to the podcast for yourself if my haphazard notes are difficult to follow. Navigation typically not followable for Flash, etc. Text is embedded, not retrievable ...Read More »

Examples of content providers blogging for customers

{ Posted on Mar 26 2008 by annegentle }
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Sarah O'Keefe wrote up a nice summary of the WritersUA Pundits Panel, and Bogo Vatovec (of Bovacon)  made a statement something like this: Introverted technical writers will not be writing help any more and will be replaced with experts moderating support ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative

{ Posted on Mar 23 2008 by annegentle }
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I have been talking to SJ Klein regularly via email and phone for my work on the wiki pages and kid's user manual for the XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, so I was excited to hear him speak ...Read More »

It’s the network, not the media, plus, the Content Wrangler Community on Ning

{ Posted on Mar 20 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging, social media, sxsw, techpubs
Another one of my takeaways from last week's South By South West Interactive conference is that it makes sense to use the term "social networking" rather than "social media" to describe sites and tools that help you stay connected with ...Read More »

Social Media Marketing Playbook – book review

{ Posted on Mar 17 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : rss, social media, techpubs, wiki, writing
This book was an easy, fun, read, and seemed especially pertinent after all the immersion into social networking I've been doing with SXSW Interactive. The 100-page book, Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook, is aimed at ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Edit Me: How Gamers are Adopting the Wiki Way

{ Posted on Mar 16 2008 by annegentle }
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Eager to get started with the four days of SouthBy goodness, I got off work Friday afternoon a little early, having headed in a little early, and made it downtown in time to wait in a line a half a ...Read More »

SXSW and Twitter – lost digital camera, found!

{ Posted on Mar 12 2008 by annegentle }
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I finally have an exciting handful of stories from South By Southwest based on the really neat people I met. Yesterday I wrote about the awesome attendees. Here's a story about Twitter used in a way I hadn't heard of ...Read More »

Amazing conversations and meeting amazing people at SXSW Interactive

{ Posted on Mar 12 2008 by annegentle }
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South by Southwest Interactive is a big web design/blogging conference in downtown Austin. There are thousands of people here for it in 2008. It's crazy busy. The latest excitement was in a friend's panel where people tried to stage an uprising ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – BarCamp Austin III (BarCampAustin3)

{ Posted on Mar 10 2008 by annegentle }
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Steve Carl already wrote up his notes from BarCamp Austin and I enjoyed his viewpoint very much. This was only my second BarCamp experience, and this year, I decided to take the plunge and actually volunteer to present. Whurley was ...Read More »

SXSW Interactive starts today – pack your XO

{ Posted on Mar 07 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : OLPC, sxsw
So many sessions that I want to attend, but at least sched.org lets me select more than one session at a time. Such an awesomely simple interface and login is so quick, just an email address and a password and ...Read More »
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