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WatchLive Blogging “How to Publish a Book” at the Chandler Library
WatchThis is a transcript of the lecture Eric Schlessor gave at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium. He spoke of the fast food industry and its role in all major areas in our culture. His answer to beating the fast food - go organic and live sustainably.
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March 2008
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SocialThing →
All of your social networks into one! It’s still in Beta, so you need an invite to try it. Also, it’s currently only limited to consolidating your Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, LiveJournal and Vimeo networks.
Sitting in my next session at SXSW “Bio-Networks: Using Mobile Technology to Impact Healthstyle”
“You are at the optimal time to make babies.”
– What the text message will send you if you fall under optimal ‘baby-making’ zone (based on your temperature) who use the Ovu Project: Wearable Fertility Tracker.
Live blogging SXSW session “Future of Volunteers: Adapt or Die” http://tinyurl.com/2vev9x starts in 12 minutes
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“He pays in cash, we pay with credit. Welcome to America!”
– Ethan, in response to Fred (from Germany) paying for his lunch in cash.
Sitting in cyber safety
Getting hungry… anyone up for food?
Highlights from “True Stories from Social Media” at my tumblr. http://tinyurl.com/2lfq8f
Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design →
True Stories from Social Media
(Okay, I bailed on the “Future of Electronics” session, tried getting into the “Social Marketing Your Brand” but it was full, so I ended up in the “True Stories from Social Media”, since it was in the next room). This session ROCKED! Here are a few cool things I learned from 1. Engage your community - give them something to do on your site. 2. Take care of your...
Sitting at “Driving the Future of Consumer Electronics”
On my way to convention center
SXSW Monday Schedule
I’m starting to feel the burn-out… lot’s of information at this conference and not enough of me to go around. Not too much I want to go to today, but here’s what I’d like to see: 10AM -(nothing) 11:30AM - “True Stories from Social Media” or “Web that wasn’t” or “Future of Consumer Electronics” or “Hardware mashups” 12PM -...
WatchMy first Utter “Moo” from the conference. I’m lovin’ this new tool (How can you not, their mascot is a cow). Check them out at utterz.com (their motto: Be Herd!)
WatchMy first comic strip made with Bitstrips.com
Vidoop.com - myVidoop →
password for all your passwords
We just jaywalk in front of a cop. http://tinyurl.com/2z7jzn
Eating sushi at silhouette in downtown austin congress and 8th
Free beer at the expo
At Room Day Stage with @rrodrigo - it’s lunch time!
laptop Battery dead no plug nearby :(
10 Easy Ways to Piss Off A Blogger (Summary)
(More were discussed, but here are the big 10) 10. Pretend to have been following their blog for months, years… 9. Spam them! 8. Treat Bloggers like journalists. 7. Don’t treat bloggers like journalists. 6. Send them irrelevant pitches (ala direct mail) without reading the content of their blog. 5. Set unreasonable expectations: “I need you to post this by 3pm today.” 4....
Social Design Strategies (summary)
This session was amazing! I was able to gather really relevant information about social design. I’ve somed up some key topics: How do you get people to do what you want them to do in an online social arena? And how do you encourage good behavior? 1) Tie Behavior to Identity: Ebay does a good job of doing this by ranking users (key: social network is the ones doing the ranking, makes it...
I brought my laptop, but forgot my pen.
“I didn’t want to invite bloggers to a session and not have them talk about...”
– R. Bhargava (session facilitator) for Core Conversations: 10 easy ways to piss off a blogger.
SXSW Notes →
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Social Design Strategies session was AWESOME!! I’ll post updates on http://befitt.tumblr.com later. Off to next session…
Sitting in the Social Design Strategies (4th flr, Rm 18) session. Get more information at http://tinyurl.com/2jw7o3
Good morning everyone! Daylight savings began this morning… on one hour of less sleep.
SXSW Sunday Schedule
Who knows which sessions I’ll ultimately end up going to - but here’s what I’d like to see on Sunday: 10AM - “Social Design Strategies” 11:30AM - “Core conversations: all about blogging” 12PM - “Keynote: Zuckerberg (Facebook)” or “Designing for Freedom” 3:30PM -“Content Boundaries” or “10 Commandments of Nice” or “Accessibility &...
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