rebecca on March 11th, 2009

Well – better late than never, The lovely guys at SmallWorldLabs asked me to join their panel on Friday at #SXSW Hooray I am chuffed to bits. My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man  Event added to My Schedule Friday, March 13th at 02:00 PM   PRESENTERS Nina Card – Scottrade [...]

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rebecca on March 6th, 2009

My little SXSW tshirt campaign idea grew into a lovely flower.  Here’s how Friday – meet @yellowpark at Tuttle Club / Social Media Cafe London and chat it through.  Speak together to Dave Hughes on the phone. Monday – call Dave and place my order for T shirt; write blog post and rush round in [...]

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rebecca on March 3rd, 2009

There are more people than ever going to the SXSW Interactive festival in March – many coming from Britain.  I'd love to show all the attendees how many Brits are at SXSW this year and what great organisations are doing 'over here'.  So I had an idea. I met Dave Hughes at Amplified last year.  [...]

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rebecca on February 20th, 2009

I got a surprising email in my in box today.  From the FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) inviting me to a party during SXSW as a UK company attending the conference. Wow – I was impressed that they'd bothered to get someone in Houston to trawl the attendees list… But since you have to 'bid' [...]

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rebecca on March 12th, 2008

I have blogged before about good and bad conference experiences .  Well have a read of this summary of SXSW from Jeremiah. He summarised four 'incidents' when the audience moved against what had been planned by the organisers as a groundswell of opinion in a new direction.   What I found interesting was the concept [...]

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rebecca on March 11th, 2008

Peter Eckert, projekt202 Chris Bernard, Microsoft Kevin Flatt – Tribal DBB [agency of the year] Brooke Nonberg – Pixel Garrick Schmitt -Avenue A Razorfish [I came because this session is supposed to be about the intersection of the traditional agency and the new online agency and how they and clients transition]. PE – if you [...]

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The dark underside of the internet – picking up all the things said about your brand online.  Within a short period of time things can go wrong and the internet can change.  But we can harness that open-ness for good.A future that is basically here, the near future.  If we all have access to all [...]

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rebecca on March 11th, 2008

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 [...]

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rebecca on March 11th, 2008

(or five huge egos at one table….) Chris Heuer   Partner,   The Conversation Group Tara Hunt   Co-Founder,   Citizen Agency Jeremiah Owyang  Forrester Deborah Schultz   Founder/Chief Catalyst,   deborahschultz.com David Parmet   Owner,   Marketing Begins At Home LLC Hugh MacLeod   Grand Pooh-Bah,   gapingvoid.com How to market into community without appearing totally overbearing? How do you build the community around [...]

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rebecca on March 10th, 2008

A general theory of creative relativity….. not a universal theory! Coudal Partners Part One – when we evaluate a work of art it is difficult to get to the heart of the creative process because there are many moving pieces….. e.g. film includes many people’s contributions.  Booking Bands – a word game to combine the [...]

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