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SXSW Interactive: March 13-17, 2009
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.
 
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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Live Twitter: Media Makers Roundtable
Steve Garfield, SteveGarfield.com
Based on the Boston Media Makers model, a group of about 30 conference goers will sit around a big table and have a chance to talk to everyone else for 3 minutes. You can tell us what you are doing, ask a question, or do a show and tell. This is for people who are interested in audio and video blogging, social media and conversations. This is an opportunity to meet other people at SXSW that you might not otherwise have a chance to get to know. See: http://bostonmediamakers.wordpress.com for and idea of what our meeting are like. It's so popular these meetings have spread to New Hampshire, Washington, DC; Denver, Colorado; and planned to start up in London. See how it works and bring it home to your city!
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/804
 
VRM - the Consumer's Revenge
Doc Searls, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) is the reverse of Customer Relationship Management. If advertising.s effectiveness continues to decline, is VRM the answer or a pipe dream? How will individual.s manage all their relationships and get their wants and needs met? Can VRM.s grand vision work in practice?
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1343
 
Platform as Art: A Developer's Perspective
Ashley Streb, Brightcove
Media educates, inspires, informs and enables us to communicate with one another in deep and meaningful ways. By leveraging the Adobe technology stack, Brightcove has created an open, on-demand platform that is used to create media-centric experiences that touch hundreds of millions of users. This platform will examine the challenges of creating a "platform" that can scale to handle billions of transactions as well as a "platform" for developers to extend and enhance.
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1447
 
Getting Real About Virtual Worlds
Paul Hemp, Harvard Business Review
Two generally parallel trends are shaping online 3D environments: users. desire to ESCAPE reality and their drive to REPLICATE reality. Both create opportunities for real-world businesses . though it gets trickier when the two occasionally intersect, as in Second Life. How can businesses make use of virtual environments that mirror real life exclusively?
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1240
 
Blackboards or Backchannels: The Techno-Induced Classroom of Tomorrow
Alex Leavitt, Boston University
The traditional classroom: obsolete? Teachers brandish chalk and Powerpoints at students who prefer debating on IRC rather than IRL. How do kids want technology integrated into the curriculum? The students speak out: to debate the potential for Wikis, backchannels, and social tech; interrogate some teachers; and argue for a r/evolution in teaching and learning
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1123
 
Boston's Emerging Position as a Social Media Hub
Sam Ford, Peppercom
This panel looks at how numerous Boston-area companies are becoming substantial forces in the social media space. From innovations in mobile interaction to building communities online to social media measurement, the companies represented in this panel present some case studies from some of the most cutting-edge companies.
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/888
 
 
    
 
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