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{ Posted on Jul 21 2009 by annegentle }

Tags : career, career plans, content, content creation, jobs, web content, writing
Categories : social media, sxsw, tools, writing

I have neglected to excerpt and link to some of my posts from the Duo Consulting blog. I've taken a break from writing for them for a few months while finalizing my book, but looking back at these posts, I ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Attracting girls to IT

{ Posted on Apr 21 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : game design, games, GirlStart, MentorNet, OLPC, role model, TechBridge, wiki, writing, XO
Categories : OLPC, sxsw, wiki, writing

15% of people are from the northeast 15% of people left handed 15% of people in the world have no cell phone, or no Internet And... less than 15% of computer science majors are female. [1] This was the lead-in for the ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Creating Findable Rich Media Content

{ Posted on Mar 31 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : findability, Flash, Flex, Google, search, SEO
Categories : social media, sxsw

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 »

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

{ Posted on Mar 23 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, education, OLPC, osi, print, sxsw, sxswi, textbooks, wiki, writing, XO, XO laptop
Categories : sxsw, writing

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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Tags : blogging, blogs, social media, social networking
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 »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – BarCamp Austin III (BarCampAustin3)

{ Posted on Mar 10 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : Austin, BarCamp, barcampaustin, education, fedora, kids, laptop, OLPC, qemu, technical writing, XO
Categories : sxsw

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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Tags : Austin, OLPC, sxsw, XO
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 »