A meet-up to talk about SXSW. Discuss how to get through a day of panels and parties and still keeping your particulars. Tips on how to make the most of SXSW during one of the busiest panel sessions offered at a conferen…

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Sweet John Muehlbauer

A gathering of Community Managers to discuss strategies and methods, exchange tips and ideas, and just have fun. Also open to anyone curious about CMs or businesses who need to know why they'd want one.……

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Tiffany Duening

No one can predict the future; but that doesn't mean you can't prepare for the unknown. Ford Motor Company's in house futurist will share how Ford is learning to expect the unexpected using a global trends and scenario p…

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Scott Lange, Scott Mills, Sheryl Connelly

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, Jeffrey Young, Peter Ludlow

This is a new paradigm based on forming two-person book clubs as a way to help you become happier and more successful. This kind of club can also help you figure out what you need to do in your life and in the world. It…

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Will Schwalbe

This is a new paradigm based on forming two-person book clubs as a way to help you become happier and more successful. This kind of club can also help you figure out what you need to do in your life and in the world. It…

Presenters

Will Schwalbe

Will Schwalbe will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB” (2012) following his Book Reading session. Will Schwalbe is the founder of Cookstr.com, which aggregates recipes fro…

Female orgasm is vital for every woman and man on the planet. In a world where technology and social networks have increasingly replaced in-person interaction, female orgasm nourishes our fundamental need for visceral, …

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Nicole Daedone

For many years, Reddit -- a site that allows people to post, vote on, and comment on links from around the Web -- was an also-ran news aggregator, a place stuck in Digg's shadow. But suddenly Reddit has become the most e…

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Adrian Chen, Farhad Manjoo, Rebecca Watson

Dave Morin and Path have always maintained that privacy controls should be simple and that your data always belongs to you. Discover why building privacy and control directly into a product from the start is essential; …

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Dave Morin

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A meet-up to talk about SXSW. Discuss how to get through a day of panels and parties and still keeping your particulars. Tips on how to make the most of SXSW during one of the busiest panel sessions offered at a conferen…

Beginner

Presenters

Sweet John Muehlbauer

I was tired of terrible first dates. When I decided to try online dating, I wasn’t going to let my profile mugshot and a few lines about me decide my fate. Instead, I did what any enterprising young woman in my position …

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Amy Webb

Political parties are analyzing the last election because its lessons are critical to future success. But what worked and didn’t is valuable not only to politicians, but to nonprofit organizations that lead very differen…

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Patrick Ruffini

With more than 123 million fans/followers on Facebook and Twitter, WWE ranks among the sports world’s digital leaders. Wrestlemania XXVIII alone generated 110 worldwide trends over the show's five-hour period and the has…

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John Cena, Khris Loux, Perkins Miller, Stephanie McMahon

Get together with other social storytelling experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.…

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Helen Klein Ross

Like it or not, we live in the age of annoyance. Technology, electronic communications, gadgets, airline travel—as it all gets “easier,” it also seems to get exponentially more annoying. Annoyance is described as an unpl…

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Gavin Jocius

Writers are notorious procrastinators, but as you can imagine, we're also creative at finding ways of delaying sitting down in front of a blank or partially completed page. One of my recent dilatory tactics turned into s…

Beginner

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Bryna Kranzler

As our online actions and behaviors become more and more integrated through the social graph and interest graph, there are opportunities for the nonprofit sector to mine that data and connect people and organizations for…

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Will Grana

It takes more than a fancy tuxedo and a social media presence to create a social organization. In addition to building social profiles, businesses must invite the entire company to the online dance and coax people to do …

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Mark Grindeland

In his book 'The Peep Diaries' & doc 'Peep Culture,' Hal Niedzviecki notes our willingness to bare everything for entertainment, profit & reputation. Even if we don't aspire to fame, with every status update, video uploa…

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Boyd Neil, Hal Niedzviecki, Meghan Warby

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Alexandra Samuel

The single life is crazy enough on it’s own, but what happens when you add something like cancer to the mix? Dating coach and single girl Charlie Nox is about to find out. On May 25, 2012, Charlie was diagnosed with papi…

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Charlie Nox, Jonah Spear

You've seen the extravagant sponsorship deals with athletes in the NBA, NFL, and NASCAR. But how often how do you hear about US athletes—the best in the world in a given sport—struggling to get by without a second job as…

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, Sara Meaney

In the march to a more connected world, technology increasingly helps us to manage our day-to-day lives in more ways. Our behavior is tracked with sensors on smart devices; our social posts and tweets are mined for insi…

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Ben Essen

As we’re in touch with more people, the meaning of those connections is often diluted. This panel addresses how we can leverage and embrace new technologies to maintain strong personal connections with our ever-growing …

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Jeffrey Schwartz, Sara Rodell

Social is not about eyeballs. Or shouting at the crowd. Or increasing followers and fans. The real currency of social is conversation, storytelling and 1-to-1 style engagement. Brands and causes alike are beginning to re…

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Ron J Williams

Thanks to eons of pre-language evolution, we're hard-wired to intuit what's in other people's minds and harmonize our thoughts and emotions. But too often our mind-reading instincts get overridden by a drive to win argum…

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Henry Copeland

Amy Webb will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Mate” following her Book Reading session. Amy Webb is the CEO of Webbmedia Group, which studies …

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of the emerging forces that are reshaping our world and will continue t…

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Al Gore, Walter Mossberg

Events have changed. The challenges involved with marketing them, sponsoring them, or simply figuring out which to attend, have been transformed. New technologies are rewriting the rules and we are all playing catch up. …

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Brian Duggan, Loic Le Meur

Love wine? Hate Snobs? This is the Meet Up for you. Come to where old & new world wines and tech collide. Time to Geek Up and Drink Up! Ask the experts, share your knowledge, and enjoy the Wine Meet Up at SXSW!…

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April Wright Collins

Hal Niedzviecki will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors” following his panel session. Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, speak…

Of all media companies, consumers use The Weather Channel the most across all platforms - television, online and mobile. Most content producers and advertisers are begging for customer information, but TWC users automat…

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David Kenny

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

Beginner

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Helen Klein Ross

Social networks rise and fall as people try to find a site that satisfies their social needs, and the “one-size fits all” networks may no longer hold the value that they did when you first signed up. Are hourly updates f…

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Colleen Taylor, Francesca Levy, Nate Johnson, Sarah Leary

Al Gore will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change” following his Featured session. Purchase a copy of The Future at the SX Bookstore beginning March 8 to reserve your sp…

Get together with other LGBT professionals in the new media sphere for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement.…

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Kate X Messer

Enough of the pontificating panel! In a rapid and fast paced (gameshow-like) session, we put the audience (that means YOU) in the hot seat as the expert on the future of social. How will social integrate into functional …

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Sam Decker, Sean McDonald

Customer service has become one of the most dynamic areas in social media. The social revolution has completely transformed a back-office function and put it square in the limelight, allowing both large and small compani…

Intermediate

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Bianca Buckridee, Brooks Thomas, Carla Saavedra Kochalski, Marsha Collier

#SXsingle, it's not just a hashtag, it's a lifestyle. Over the years, the term "what happens at South By, stays at South By" has become part of the vernacular for veteran attendees. In some instances, this means exactly…

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Charlie Nox, Kathryn Irwin

Dell and American Red Cross will present a case study about their collaboration to create a social engagement center dedicated to humanitarian relief. Panelists from both Red Cross and Dell will share the strategies, bes…

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Gloria Huang, Maribel Sierra

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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Social communities Smartphone apps Web-based apps From farming 2.0 to restaurants with iPad ordering systems to the never-ending food porn on Instagram. Digital innovation is changing the food industry - business owner…

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Sharon Mays

Join us for the Official SXSW 2013 Geospatial Meetup. LBS, GIS, SoLoMo and every other trade acronym for ambient technologies are on the rise and are here to stay. What are location-based services, geospatial information…

Intermediate

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James Sinclair

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

Beginner

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Amy McIlwain

Imagine if you could know all about someone just by looking at them. You could remember people's names, sense when friends were nearby, and see hidden connections around you wherever you went. Soon, the mobile phones we …

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Paul Davison

How much of what you are using on a day-to-day basis actually comes from your school years? How much comes from the people you meet, the workshops you attend, the work you do? According to the New Approaches to Lifelong …

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Christine Renaud, Emily Goligoski

Think pink is the way to market to girls? Think again. Women and the teen girls they were know the power of their affections when it comes to entertainment, the internet, and the attention economy -- and yet they're prim…

Intermediate

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Ann Glenn, Jenna Wortham, Megan Westerby, Rae Votta

This will be a discussion and discovery of the methodology used by entrepreneurs in dealing with some of the challenges and emotions in a non-traditional work environment. As self employed individuals or entrepreneurs, o…

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Gabriel Shepherd

In the 70s porn theaters were a social space; in the 80s VCRs made viewing private; the 90s saw the rise of internet porn and online forums, allowing a still private but more social anonymous space; in the 2000s we are o…

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Carol Queen, Julie Gillis, Lisa Vandever, Michael Stabile

Traditionally, marketing has been about defining a brand’s key messages and finding clever and interesting ways to broadcast them. But it's no longer enough to connect eyeballs to ads; today's marketers must connect peop…

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, Clara Shih

Special needs kids range from children with cerebral palsy, autism, the blind...to name a few. The iPad and special needs apps allow kids to verbally communicate their basic needs and replaces expensive, bulky old device…

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Kevin Sitek

In 2009, Bob Garfield published The Chaos Scenario and the world of media and marketing shit themselves. The book presented an apocalyptic vision of the steady collapse of mass media and mass marketing, which was scary e…

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Bob Garfield, Doug Levy

Libraries have grown far beyond the nostalgic scent of books on shelves (though we still have that too). There is an explosive realm of content-wrangling that occurs on the library frontier making life-changing impacts i…

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Andrea Davis, Carson Block

Best known for uncovering the importance of unstructured play, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget once said "play is the answer to how anything new comes about". We know now from decades of research that having the time and …

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Byrne Reese, Dennis Bjoern Petersen, Jayne Vidheecharoen, Patricia Chang

Tumblr founder David Karp was born and raised in New York City, attending the Bronx High School Science before dropping out at age 15. An internship at Frederator Studios led to a gig leading product at UrbanBaby. When C…

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David Karp

Founded in New York City in 2008 by Sam Lessin, Y+30 was designed as an authentic forum for discussing what the world might look like in +30 years for a given subject. For instance: Food+30, Healthcare+30, Money+30, Spac…

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Sam Lessin

Serendipity is a fuzzy concept that has a powerful effect on our lives. More than blind luck, it's the product of lots of passion, insight, or proximity. As we live lives that are more accelerated and connected, with acc…

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Colin Raney, John Perry Barlow, Joichi Ito, Kevin Rose

This panel will look at how people socialize online and offline – and how these interactions affect each other. Just as they do in real life, people on social networks and social media form social circles – in a way that…

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Austin Carr, Brian Schechter, Dylan Casey, Jared Hecht

Our culture is becoming more and more obsessed with data each day. Why? It's fun. Many people argue that measurement has killed social media– it’s let the marketers take over! But, the same data marketers use can be used…

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Adam Schoenfeld, Matt Thomson

Do you know how to pronounce Weber? Have you used Malinowski and "da bomb" in the same sentence? Are you regularly the only person without a business degree in meetings? Do you ever use yourself as an example of how libe…

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Sam Eder

Bob Garfield will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Can't Buy Me Like” following his Dual session. Bob Garfield is the most prominent commentator and analyst of advertising and marketing who has ever l…

Doug Levy will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Can't Buy Me Like” following his Dual session. CEO and Founder of imc², now MEplusYOU, and author of Winning in the Relationship Era, Doug believes auth…

In a world where we communicate as much via text message as we do with our body language, being a full-screen flirt takes virtual finesse. Even when you live a tech-forward life, digital flirting fails can still happen f…

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Laurie Davis

In a world where we communicate as much via text message as we do with our body language, being a full-screen flirt takes virtual finesse. Even when you live a tech-forward life, digital flirting fails can still happen f…

Presenters

Laurie Davis

Laurie Davis will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating” following her Book Reading session. In 2009, Laurie Davis founded eFlirt Expert with just $…

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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You invest your money, but do you invest in relationships? Porter’s presentation will discuss her book Your Network Is Your Net Worth. In our new economy, connections are a powerful currency. Relationships are the secr…

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Porter Gale

You invest your money, but do you invest in relationships? Porter’s presentation will discuss her book Your Network Is Your Net Worth. In our new economy, connections are a powerful currency. Relationships are the secr…

Presenters

Porter Gale

Porter will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of the first chapter of her book “Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age” …

Food may be the new rock and roll, but there's a lot to hate about current food culture. The conversational territory is carved up into ridiculous feats of gluttony, Rube Goldberg cooking processes, mean-spirited reality…

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Addie Broyles, Hilah Johnson, Mary Helen Leonard, Will Burdette

Social Media—Facebook, Twitter, blogs—have united the world like never before, enabling connectivity across time and place. Yet despite these assumed benefits of increased communication, research suggests that we have ne…

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Bekah Lockner, Courtney Miller

Get together with other innovators in privacy for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.…

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Natalie Fonseca

How does a farmer-owned cheese co-op in Oregon make new friends in the great state of Texas? By using the digital space to say “howdy”! We put together an integrated digital launch plan that: - reached deep into the mark…

Intermediate

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Gillian Kennedy

Storytelling is probably one of the most overused words in marketing today. The bigger problem is that many people who are using it wouldn't know a real story if it bit them in the posterior. Amidst the clarion calls for…

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Cathy Brooks

Robin S. Rosenberg will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “What's the Matter With Batman?: An Unauthorized Clinical Look Under the Mask of the Caped Crusader” following his Book Reading session. Robin S…

Batman dresses in costume, spends a good part of his wealth to support the lifestyle of his bat-alter ego, and puts his life on the line nightly. There must be something wrong with him, right? This question is that heart…

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Robin Rosenberg

Batman dresses in costume, spends a good part of his wealth to support the lifestyle of his bat-alter ego, and puts his life on the line nightly. There must be something wrong with him, right? This question is that heart…

Presenters

Robin Rosenberg

You’ve heard this, “A woman walks into a bar…” In our version, it’s five years from now and goes: “A woman walks into a bar. She sees someone in a great pair of boots. What does she do?” BlogHer CEO and co-founder Lisa…

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Lisa Stone

In a world where we are constantly glued to our mobile devices, when is 24/7 connectedness all too much? Who better than to help answer this question than YOU – the most digitally savvy voices in the country? Together we…

Intermediate

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Gemma Craven, Jeff Simmermon

ModCloth.com, an online boutique specializing in vintage-inspired apparel and decor, was launched out of the college dorm room of its founder Susan Gregg Koger in 2002. It was her love for thrifting and keen eye for retr…

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Kerry Cooper

The rise of social media and mobile technology has forever altered the social landscape teenagers navigate. It hasn’t necessarily made kids meaner, or bullying more prevalent, but it has changed how they learn skills lik…

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Bill Keller, Danah Boyd, Emily Bazelon, Jason Rzepka

He has retired from pro basketball, but that doesn't mean Shaq has slowed down. Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal gives his opinions on social media, startups, online comedy, as well as all things hoops in a reveal…

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Shaquille O'Neal

He has retired from pro basketball, but that doesn't mean Shaq has slowed down. Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal gives his opinions on social media, startups, online comedy, as well as all things hoops in a reveal…

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Shaquille O'Neal

From content marketing to community management, B2B organizations are expanding their focus beyond traditional forms of communications to increase direct engagement with audiences. B2B customers are active users of socia…

Intermediate

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Jamie Grenney, Jason Bartlett, Jeanette Gibson, Melissa Chanslor

Emily Bazelon will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy” following her Panel session. Emily Bazelo…

We’re tired of the inexhaustible need to tweet from every event we attend and Instagram so there is irrefutable proof that we were there rather than listening to the person we came to see. We all could use a break from h…

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Dave Hepp

In an old fable, a nightingale issues a challenge to an inchworm to measure her song- to prevent being eaten. Fearful, the worm tricks the bird into singing while he inches away. Sound familiar? When marketers ask for wh…

Intermediate

Presenters

Kate Niederhoffer, Sam Gosling

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Presenters

Brian Wallace

Come hear from Army Recruiting’s social media marketing lead on the U.S. Army’s strategy for creating compelling content and engaging with a community of more than 1 million across multiple company divisions. Whether it’…

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Greg Swan

Hating on Facebook advertising is easy- especially when the media, leading advertisers & analysts come out each day saying 'Facebook advertising just doesn't work'. The complaints are familiar: you targeted your fans’ f…

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Brandon Rhoten, Kurt Abrahamson

Back by popular demand, we bring you Community Confessions. Double agent. First Responder. Cheerleader. They’re all fair descriptors of the now prevalent role of Community Manager. Whether you are one yourself or just mo…

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Chris Gokiert, Kim Matlock, Kristin Rupert, Lizz Kannenberg

This meetup is exclusively for those who manage a brand's social page. Time to get together and air blunders, grievances and social complaints. Get your #nofilter on.…

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Ly Tran

Location is enormously important to the future of mobile; it creates a new layer of relevance for social, adds context to our posts and photos, and helps us discover the world around us. The success of the LBS industry r…

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Damien Patton

You are bad at Facebook. We are less bad at it than you. Also, the vast majority of your audience is probably on Facebook. (Unless you are Pinterest, but they are on Facebook too. Just sayin'.) You are probably not good …

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, Adam Mordecai

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

Beginner

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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It's well-known that publishing and/or broadcasting news has gone from a one-way lecture to a multi-directional conversation. This core conversation will discuss the many ways that journalists and news companies are usin…

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Mandy Jenkins, Mark Briggs

The proliferation of location-aware devices and geo-tagged data raises important questions: what will happen as more and more of the content we create online is automatically tagged with locational data? What can we lear…

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Catherine D'ignazio, Devin Gaffney, Mark Graham, Monica Stephens

You’re a big, well-known entertainment brand with tons of Facebook fans and Twitter followers. Great—now what? Success for entertainment brands can be driven heavily by social media. However, social media networks are dr…

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Jon Peters, Mike Vorhaus

Human beings are no longer the only entities posting photos, tweets, checkins and blog posts online. There are other entities moving around us: social bots, emotive shadows of real people, and specifically designed spam…

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Jeff Kramer

All those latte portraits and shoe snapshots that fill up your feed? They're major game changers—in the cultural narrative realm. And as the recent acquisition of Instagram by Facebook proves, images have become the main…

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Amy Odell, Amy Wicks, Elizabeth Spiridakis, Valentine Uhovski

"I think if I can make a bundle of cash before I'm thirty and get out of this racket, I'll be able to ride my motorcycle across China." - Bud Fox, in Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street Do you dream of traveling around the…

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Andy Stoll

Trust mechanisms played a huge role in ushering online transactions from scary leaps of faith to our status quo, but what happens when online trust and social reputation move beyond the commerce space? Could your online …

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Leah Busque

‘If you like this, you’ll like this’ is part of everyone’s shopping vocabulary. But those kinds of algorithmic recommendations only account for a single dimension of consumer interest: similarities among products. Other …

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Vipul Sharma

My presentation is all about the feeling of being overwhelmed from managing profiles on social networking sites. This is a positive presentation about social networking, but the emphasis is about building relationships o…

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Dave Delaney, Jessica Murray

Today, everyone is a “Creative.” With the boom of visually-based social platforms like Instagram and Pinterest, technology has leveled the playing field. Does this really change how we define art and creativity? Artistic…

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, Christiaan Welzel, Laurie Frick, Mitch Goodwin

“Anonymity” is a much-ballyhooed buzzword. But the complex issues of anonymity and authorship are far from unique to the Internet age. We’ve been here before. Turn back to 17th century Europe, when publishing was a less-…