Archive for March, 2008

Mar 14 2008 - On the issue of outside parties

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about how the South By Southwest event is dealing with the flood of outside parties.
It’s a difficult balance. You want attendees to have a lot of reasons to attend. Yet if more and more dollars go to the outside event sponsorships instead of to the [...]

Mar 12 2008 - The New Twitter-Emboldened Conference Attendee

Something new always seems to come out of the SXSW event in Austin each year. The music/film/technology conference has attracted lots of folks in the technology field over the past 3-4 years. Last year the big story was how everyone was using Twitter to communicate and organize impromptu meetups.
This year the big story [...]

Mar 6 2008 - Speaker Acceptance / Turn-Down Day

Yesterday was the day we sent out all of the acceptance and rejection letters to speakers for the New Media Expo in August. I have a love / hate relationship with this day because I know I’m going to make a few people very happy and a lot of people very disappointed. We’re [...]