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Please enjoy this archive of our recordings at the 2006 SXSW Interactive Festival.
Note to Windows users: The videos in these podcasts and on this page require Quicktime 7.
How to Make $$ With Your Blog Design Skills - Saturday, March 11th
This panel will take a close look what blog design really means - both in terms of art and practice. Explore how to price your design services, and find out what other blog designers have learned about blog clients. This session is geared toward blog designers and Web site designers, with a special focus on business blog design practices. Topics being covered include:* How to price your design services * How to find out what your client wants * Blog design best practices * Blog design no-nos * What customization is possible within the most poplar blog software tools (without learning HTML, CSS and Photoshop)Special bonus: Get instant feedback on your blog designs from the panel experts, and from the audience. The panel will look at blogs designed by audience members, give feedback and suggestions, and ask the audience to vote for the most successful design.
Moderator: Susannah Gardner Creative Dir, Hop Studios
Paul Chaney Pres, Radiant Marketing Group
Peter Flaschner Creative Dir, Flashlight Design
Joelle Reeder Creative Dir & Partner, Moxie Design Studios
Lisa Sabin Owner, E.Webscapes
Susannah Gardner Creative Dir, Hop Studios
Justin Hall Presentation: Play a Life Online - Saturday, March 11th
Justin Hall, Links.net
How to Create Passionate Users - Saturday, March 11th
What do game designers, neurobiologists, and filmmakers know about creating passionate users? How can we take better advantage of how the brain works to reach our users at a deep emotional level that inspires their enthusiasm and participation? The latest research in cognitive science, brain chemistry, and psychology can help you figure out how to get attention and keep it.We'll look at how to work around the brain's natural filters that keep your message from getting in. We'll explore the techniques game developers use to keep users engaged and wanting more, and how these techniques can be applied to virtually any kind of communication. Most importantly, we'll look at the lessons learned from the organizations and individuals who've succeeded at turning on the hearts and brains of their users.Whether you're looking to drive up the hits on your web site, increase membership and involvement, or build a passionate "fan" base around your product, service,or cause,the answer lies in reverse engineering the things for which people are passionate, and finding ways to implement those same attributes in what we offer.
Moderator: Kathy Sierra
Designing for Global and Local Social Play - Saturday, March 11th
In the rush to get everything online, we envisioned a global village where people would connect with others across space and time. Yet, the vast majority of people socialize with people in their small social world. We want access to all the world's knowledge and information but we want to share it locally. We want social relations to be visible, but we do not like the consequences of collapsed social contexts and flattened social structures. What does it mean to interact globally and locally at the same time? How do conceptions of urban life, social networks, mobility, and play help explain what people are doing when faced with glocalized environments? These issues come in to play when we think about tagging and folksonomy, social bookmarking, media sharing tools, reputation and recommendation systems, and everything that is dependent on building out social networks.
Moderator: Danah Boyd Researcher, UC-Berkeley/Yahoo!
Jane McGonigal Lead Designer, 42 Entertainment
Irina Shklovski Researcher, CMU/HCII
Amanda Williams UC Irvine
danah boyd Researcher, UC-Berkeley/Yahoo!
How to Be A Web Design Superhero - Saturday, March 11th
In today's fast moving environment, the web is changing almost daily. Web designers must know not only their own craft, but appreciate the craft of others. They must understand the needs of their clients, and their clients. They understand what works today, but keep an eye on the future. In short, they must be superheroes. From dealing with new technologies or techniques, to handling clients and managing projects effectively, this entertaining and informative session will deal with issues which face designers every day.
Moderator: Andy Budd Creative Dir, Clearleft Ltd
Andy Budd Creative Dir, Clearleft Ltd
Andy Clarke Creative Dir, Stuff and Nonsense
How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting - Saturday, March 11th
So you've mastered CSS and now everyone's talking about JavaScript and the Document Object Model. Don't panic, we can help you.
Moderator: Jeremy Keith Web Developer, Adactio
Aaron Gustafson Sr Web Designer/Dev, Easy! Designs LLC
Jeremy Keith Web Developer, Adactio
Online Politics: Fast, Cheap and Allows for Control - Tuesday, March 14th
New tools and technologies allow political organizers to unleash and manage activity faster, easier, and on a much more massive scale given limited staff than ever before. However, campaigns and organizations have only scratched the surface of what's possible. What's needed are more and better application designers serving the political sphere. This panel is an introduction to the field of political and non-profit online organizing for developers, web designers, and anyone interested in how the web is changing the way society and politics operates.Very simple tools -- such as MoveOn's lobby-day planner, or the GOP's Team Leader -- can allow tiny teams of organizers, or even a single organizer, to coordinate giant movements that once required an army of staff people. And thanks to the high-level frameworks onto of which web developers build, applications that mobilize millions can often be built in a day or two by a single programmer. That said, organizations, campaigns and political parties are having a terrible time finding and directing programmers to build new and powerful tools.
Moderator: Zack Exley Senior Strategist, OMP, New Organizing Institute
Becky Bond Creative Producer, Working Assets
Chuck DeFeo Dir of Online Strategy, Salem Web Network
Justin Ruben Organizing Dir, MoveOn.org
Mark Strama State Rep, .
Leda Dederich Dir, ScoutSeven
Zack Exley Senior Strategist, OMP, New Organizing Institute
Choosing the Right Design Partner - Saturday, March 11th
Finding the right company to help launch a website can be a daunting task when a business's brand is on the line. Representatives from Fortune 500 companies and their design firm partners talk about the qualities each side looks for in a design partnership.
Moderator: Dave Evans VP of Social Media, Digital Voodoo Inc
Dave Evans VP of Social Media, Digital Voodoo Inc
Christian Barnard Exec Dir, AT&T Online Services
Jeffrey Williams frog
Book Digitization and the Revenge of the Librarians - Saturday, March 11th
Major Internet players are partnering with libraries to explore digitization. Given these kinds of discussions, how are our books and the places we get them likely to change in the future?
Moderator: Elizabeth Lane Lawley Professor, RIT
Daniel Clancy Google
Bob Stein
Danielle Tiedt GM, Microsoft
Elizabeth Lawley Professor, RIT
Daniel Gilbert Presentation: How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times - Saturday, March 11th
The human brain is prone to errors and illusions that keep it from making smart decisions about its own future. This presentation explores them. Also, the first 100 people to arrive at the presentation will receive a FREE advance readers copy of "Stumbling on Happiness," the new book by Daniel Gilbert.
Moderator: Daniel Gilbert Professor, Harvard University
Daniel Gilbert Professor, Harvard University
Convergence and Transformation: A Whole New Creative World - Saturday, March 11th
How does digital convergence transform the creative world of designers, developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs? How can we spot trends and practices that will prepare us for the future in a world of accelerating change?
Moderator: Catherine Crago Principal, Semicongroup
David-Michel Davies Exec Dir, The Webby Awards
David Pescovitz Co-Editor, BoingBoing.net
John Tolva
Catherine Crago Principal, Semicongroup
Better Blogging Brainstorming - Saturday, March 11th
Experienced bloggers cover their best tips for creating compelling content. Panelists also discuss new blogs they view as particularly innovative.
Moderator: Liza Sabater Publisher, Culturekitchen Network
Cameron Barrett BlogCorp Inc
Helen Jane Hearn IA Mgr, Trinchero Family Estates
Min Jung Kim Mischief Maker
Tony Pierce Community Man, Buzznet
Liza Sabater Publisher, Culturekitchen Network
Beyond Folksonomies: Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma - Saturday, March 11th
As the web evolves, contextual navigation is increasingly necessary. The top-down, authoritarian, Semantic Web approach is way too restrictive, and the bottom-up, free-love, rebelliousness of folksonomies is way too permissive. What's next? A compromise of extremes? A middle-out approach? Something completely different? Can GYM save us? Tune in to find out.
Moderator: David Swedlow Co-Founder, SPCI
J Wynia Pragmapool Inc
Mary Hodder CEO, Dabble
David Swedlow Co-Founder, SPCI
Elizabeth Lawley Professor, RIT
Ajax: What Do I Need to Know? - Saturday, March 11th
Ajax is rapidly becoming the basis of an important web development technique. But what does it do, and how do you design and build for it? Our panel will walk you through the basics of Ajax, show off some great work that uses the technique, and talk about how you can get started building an asynchronous web page.
Moderator: David Humphreys
Dylan Schiemann Renkoo
Dori Smith Writer
David Humphreys
Jesse James Garrett Dir UX Strategy, Adaptive Path
Open Science - Tuesday, March 14th
From free journals to free programmable DNA: learn about the development of legal, economic and technical approaches to openness in science.
Moderator: John Wilbanks Exec Dir, Science Commons
Barbara Cohen Exec Editor, Public Library of Science
Sriram Kosuri Graduate Student, MIT
Antoun Nabhan Principal, Sagamore Bioventures
Susy Struble Sun Microsystems
John Wilbanks Exec Dir, Science Commons
What's Hot in Web Applications - Sunday, March 12th
Inexpensive, simple-to-use web applications are revolutionizing technology. Hear insights from cutting-edge developers about developing these apps -- as well as developing the kind of companies that can produce them.
Moderator: Peter Merholz Dir of Practice Dev, Adaptive Path
Scott Dietzen Pres & CTO, Zimbra
Seth Sternberg Co-Founder, Meebo
Peter Merholz Dir of Practice Dev, Adaptive Path
BJ Fogg Founder & Chairman, YackPack
Creative Subplot: The Viral Edition - Monday, March 13th
A look into the process and thinking behind some of today's most creative agencies. A personal approach to creativity and inspiration as told by the designers, producers, and creative directors of todays most talked about viral campaigns.
Moderator: Tim Nolan Online Creative Dir, Night Agency
Stacey Duda Sr Producer, The Barbarian Group
Nessim Higson Principal, Iamalwayshungry
Richard Webb COO, Barbarian Group
Tim Nolan Online Creative Dir, Night Agency
Bootstrapping Your Digital Convergence Business - Monday, March 13th
Bootstrap your venture with little to no startup capital like Michael Dell! Learn the rules of bootstrapping from successful bootstrappers in publishing, software and art.
Moderator: Bijoy Goswami CEO, Aviri
Neelan Choksi Sr Dir Prod Mktg, BEA Systems
Dave Wolpert
Tina Schweiger Owner Pres, Yellow Fin Inc Erebelle LLC
Bijoy Goswami CEO, Aviri
Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps - Tuesday, March 14th
With hype around "Web 2.0" reaching an almost unbearable level, it can be tempting to dismiss it all. That would be a shame. For all the breathless marketing and ill-funded startups, there's some absolutely amazing design being done out there. We'll talk to those behind some of the most successful applications on the web and find out what the process was behind them, how they bring users into their designs, and what it's like to stay on the cutting edge of web tech without succumbing to it.
Moderator: Jeffrey Veen , Measure Map
George Oates Producer, Ludicorp
Mena Trott Partner, Six Apart
Evan Williams CEO, Odeo, Inc.
Jeffrey Veen Measure Map
Eric Rodenbeck Dir, Stamen Design
Open Source Management: Walking the Walk - Tuesday, March 14th
What would happen if a company was forthright and open about the challenges it faces? Why are companies embracing openness when it comes to their software, but not their own operation and decision-making process?Corporations fear the authenticity and vulnerability that would build trust with their customers and better products and services. And vulnerability is necessary for connection, intimacy, trust and real conversation.Blogs, wikis, the Web and other tech goodies have given us the means for exchange, and the impetus for integration within company fiefdoms but not necessarily the human skills for creating a space that allows us to genuinely exchange information, rather than just talk at each other.So, how do you gets comfortable being vulnerable? How does a company come to believe this matters? By experiencing it and its results.In this panel executed as performance/ talk show, we'll explore and *show* what happens if a company is willing to have a real, vulnerable "blog" or conversation with customers, blogging experts and regular folks.
Moderator: Heather Gold Writer/ Performer, Subvert.com
Cathy Brooks Founder/Exec Producer, Other Than That
Mark Glaser MediaShift Blogger, PBS MediaShift
Jerry Michalski Pres, Sociate
David Callisch Dir of Mktg, Ruckus Wireless
Giovanni Rodriguez Principal, Eastwick Communications
Heather Gold Writer/ Performer, Subvert.com
Starting Small: Web Business for the Rest of Us - Saturday, March 11th
Reality bites, but every once in a while we get a chance to bite back. A panel of experts and industry practitioners will discuss the ins and outs of being your own boss within the professional web industry. We will cover what it really takes to start your own freelance business, a sole proprietorship, a co-op, or a small business with a few other partners. While we will briefly touch on topics such as taxes, accounting, investing, and IP issues involved, we intend focus primarily on the genuine challenges each of us has faced when setting out on our own. Topics we plan to cover are the issues surrounding office space, establishing a partnership with other businesses, leveraging your network, writing proposals, getting a consensus without loosing partners, maintaining relationships with clients, finding your niche in the market, and much more. We'll examine what it takes to get a web business up and running from scratch. We'll teach you to bite back for a change.
Moderator: Nick Finck Publisher, Digital Web Magazine
James Archer CEO, Forty Media
Michael Buffington Michael Buffington
Leonard Lin Yahoo!
Veerle Pieters Ceo, Duoh! N V
Nick Finck Publisher, Digital Web Magazine
James Surowiecki Presentation: The Wisdom of Crowds - Saturday, March 11th
Hear the award-winning New Yorker columnist talk about the power of large groups (including on the Internet) to make remarkably intelligent decisions. The session will also cover the problems and challenges that large groups present.
James Surowiecki, Anchor Books
Burnie Burns Keynote - Tuesday, March 14th
What happens when you employ video game technology to produce narrative, episodic content? The reigning expert in this form explains the many new possibilities brought forth by this brave new world of machinima.
Burnie Burns, Exec Something, Rooster Teeth Productions
Bruce Sterling Presentation: The State of the World - Tuesday, March 14th
Sterling's Tuesday talks at SXSW Interactive are legendary. Close your conference experience by hearing his vision of global drama and the human condition, circa 2006.
Bruce Sterling, Visionary In Residence, Design Visionary
The Future of Darknets: Can Hollywood See the Light? - Monday, March 13
Darknet pioneers and representatives from the movie and music industries square off over the new realities of digital distribution over private spaces online.
Kori Bernards, VP Corp Comm, Motion Picture Association of America Inc
Heather Champ Community Mgr, Flickr
Mark Ishikawa, BayTSP
Dave Toole, CEO, Outhink
JD Lasica, Exec Dir, Ourmedia
Ian Clarke, Coord, Freenet Project Inc
Craig Newmark Keynote Interview - Monday, March 13
The founder of craigslist talks with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales about how a simple interface and an easy-going zen attitude have helped to make life better for millions of users across the world.
Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist
Jimmy Wales Pres, Wikimedia Foundation Inc
Keynote Conversation w/ Heather Armstrong and Jason Kottke - Sunday, March 12
SXSW Interactive is proud to announce that Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com and Jason Kottke of kottke.org will serve as the keynote conversation on Sunday afternoon, March 12. Their conversation will run from 2:00-2:45 pm and is open to SXSW Interactive, Gold and Platinum registrants
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Heather Armstrong Author, Blurbodoocery
Smaller, Faster, Lighter
- Sunday, March 12th
A library of music that might have once filled an entire room can now be stored on an MP3 player smaller than a deck of playing cards. New chip technologies and improved memory capabilities are enabling music players and a host of gadgets to decrease in size while simultaneously increasing in functionality. This session explores the next wave of innovation while also examining the cultural impact of such changes.
Moderator: Renuka Rayasam
Business Reporter, Austin American-Statesman
Eric Hellweg Harvard Business Review
Gray McCord Sr Studio Dir, M3 Design
Renuka Rayasam Business Reporter, Austin American-Statesman
William Bull Sr Designer, frogdesign
Andrew Horwitz Sr Dir of Corporate Strategy, Seagate Technology
Podcasting 2.0 - Saturday, March 11th
Hear about what is coming next in this fast-growing space. Cool trends that will be discussed will be podcast listening and viewing directly on a mobile phone, dynamic program and metadata assembly, audience audio comment feeds, audience listening behavior tracking and the possible future of enhanced podcasts. How podcast listening audiences are changing and growing as topic interest widens? How will major media podcasts versus smaller commercial and non-commercial long-tail podcasters sort out? This panel will also discuss how mobilcasting is different from podcasting.
Chris Pirillo Pres, Lockergnome
Eric Rice Founder, Audioblog.com
Rob Greenlee Sr Mktg Mgr, Melodeo Mobilcast
Laura Swisher
Opening Remarks - Saturday, March 11th
Frustrated by the conventional "work-for-hire" model of the creative business, Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and Jason Fried of 37signals have pushed their companies in a decidedly more entrepreneurial direction over the past two years. With the idea of taking a greater amount of control over the creative they produce, both firms have built products and businesses which allow them a large degree of independence and the ability to apply the crafts of design, writing and programming for their own benefit. As Coudal said in a recent article, "the only way to free yourself from the tyranny of clients is to become one."
Jim Coudal, Coudal Partners
Jason Fried, 37Signals
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