Creative Agency Secrets

Thanks to Nico Macdonald for inviting me to chair two sessions at his Media Futures Conference next week.

I am going to be up there with Alex McKie and the guys from Plot…. Wicked! 

11.00:    Research in the real world – Alex McKie

11:30:      Meet the people formerly known as… users – Gill Wildman and Nick Durrant, Plot

He twittered it here 

Really looking forward to this. 

I was invited by the lovely folk at Designer Breakfasts to do a workshop on how to do business development for your agency or for yourself.

The group was fantastic and worked really hard on the problems and tools I set them tow ork on.  Here are the photos.

The handout is here. Designer Breakfasts handout

And more recently….. and his partner in crime, Scott Stead trying to upload videos….

Over lunch at the lovely PE Chang's Chinese, Buddy Gill (I never met someone really called Buddy before!)

And just to say I did some 'sleb spotting….. Jeremiah (we did talk)

and Robert Scoble (we didn't!)

and the lovely Valleywag lady in the Reputation management session 

Kathy Sierra. …. being really gracious talking to 'fans' in a corridor.  She says it's been a year since she blogged and she isn't about to start again… but has some plans do to video online as a producer rather than being in front of the camera. 

And Jonny Goldstein of Par-tay just interviewed me for his blog / TV show.  Cool Dude works with Scott Stead in DC… 

Scott Faris Faris Wheel

Richard, Roseanne and Ryan Williams  with whom I drank the awful local beer

Finding the Brits at SXSW…. so far met two of the Birmingham Crowd at registration (9 am), Pete Ashton and Joanny Geary. Joanna did a brief interview with me on here new toy, the Nokia N95… hope it makes it past the cutting room floor!

1 pm Later….. with Rachel Clarke …at Bloghaus . and Adam Metz who was wearing the coolest union jack cufflinks… read closely "elegant" and "arrogant" Ha.   

Euan Spence

Stef Magdalinski (moo )

Had a great tour around Think Public’s fantastic studio offices this morning. Dig this for style!

Deborah Szebeko, MD of Thinkpublic - We help people make things better.

and the lovely notice on the stairs on the way up……!

PS oh, I forgot, they took a polaroid of me to put on the back of the door in the second photo…that’s me right at the bottom!