Events matching tag "community"
Friday, March 7
As per the recent Pew poll, Hispanics were more than twice as likely to use reddit than other ethnic groups. There is a subreddit dedicated to all the Spanish speaking countries and cities around the world, and bilingual…
Beginner
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Elianne Ramos, Lia Navarro-Pennington
Saturday, March 8
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Charlie O'Donnell
This will be a compelling interactive conversation where all are invited to share a personal story, secret, confession or apology. Public storytelling is an ancient art form that has experienced resurgence in our cultu…
Intermediate
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Sadie Smythe, Stirling Gardner
You've experienced the goal of many platforms - unchecked exponential growth in your user base. People have a genuine passion for your product and that passion is rapidly expanding organically. But what does this mean fo…
Intermediate
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Brendan Codey, Cindy Au, Jenna Meister
Community support is an essential component to any successful event, and successful events can benefit their communities for years to come. This meet-up seeks to unite event organizers and community leaders to share idea…
Intermediate
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Jeff Cuellar
From WordPress themes to all aspects of home and office life, the open source movement is bringing new knowledge and increased collaboration to life for both consumers and developers – and the movement is just beginning.…
Advanced
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Andrew Brooks, Jason Johnson, JJ Colao, Matt Mullenweg
You have one moment to grab your audience and engage them in your Facebook content. What are the tools you need to create a compelling headline, draw in readers and force them to click through to your content? Leila Bril…
Beginner
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Leila Brillson
Keeping user-created content quality high is challenging as a community grows, but Quora has managed to do it while riding significant growth. Come hear and learn from Marc Bodnick, who leads the business and community t…
Intermediate
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Marc Bodnick
Sunday, March 9
The beauty of community driven brands is the natural order of customer focus. Hear from three brands that have built - and recently launched - brands centered around artistic communities. Instagram, the preferred image …
Intermediate
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Bailey Richardson, Duann Scott, Jenny Dearing, Josh Karpf
Building a tech product takes a lot of time and focus. Ensuring the market exists to create and sell that product takes just a little more. While what’s happening in Washington is heavily guided by special interests, the…
Intermediate
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Gene Austin, Kevin Callahan, Michael McGeary
Sometimes Twitter and Facebook feeds sound like one big group therapy session. Consumers know that complaining online gets results, and companies are so terrified of going viral for the wrong reasons (see: the Amy’s Baki…
Intermediate
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Kam Desai
Austin has created a reputation as a national hotbed for start-ups, entrepreneurs and innovation. This session will explore the elements that contribute to the creation of a community like Austin and how can entrepreneur…
Beginner
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Chelsea McCullough, Whurley
Industrial Revolution II is a different kind of garment company. Social advancement for our workers, their families and our neighbors is equally important to us as delivering our customers the highest quality products an…
Intermediate
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Joey Adler, Rob Broggi
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP22156 In…
Intermediate
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Andrew Grenville, Tyler Douglas
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Ligaya Tichy
Vegans are often looked at as humorless jerks that just want to question the ingredients in hummus and create spectacles like putting topless pregnant ladies in cages, denouncing ex-vegans by sharing their personal infor…
Intermediate
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Laura Beck, Stephanie Bogdanich
Monday, March 10
In the core conversation "Is Facebook Making Houses of Worship Go Extinct?" we plan to discuss how social media has changed the role of the religious meeting place. Using the model of the synagogue as a case study, we no…
Intermediate
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Rebecca Saidlower, Susanne Goldstone Rosenhouse
“The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It's that death is the default for startups, and most towns don't save them. Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with startupicide, it's more accurate to…
Advanced
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Donna Harris, Josh Baer, Maria Adamian, Steve Collens
Is it possible to bring about a world where billions of people are directly empowered to change their lives and communities by 2015? The answer is yes. It might sound implausible, but it is actually achievable with the r…
Beginner
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Amanda Kloer
On Independence Day 2011, the first-ever #BCSM tweetchat for those affected by breast cancer took place. Less than two years later, the group had attracted thousands of participants, spawned a website and a YouTube chann…
Intermediate
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Alicia Staley, Deanna Attai, Jody Schoger, Xeni Jardin
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Intermediate
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Sherrilynne Starkie
Tuesday, March 11
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25985 Th…
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Lauren Vargas, Vanessa Rhinesmith
For more than a decade, "taxation without representation" has been a rallying cry in Washington D.C. But while the District still hasn’t achieved statehood or a vote in Congress, its citizens are being heard in a new way…
Intermediate
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Matthew Desjardins, Zach Boisi
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24674 Th…
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Adam DuVander
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on exhibitions with Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse, and Hadrian Belove of Cinefamily This is an open forum to ask these insiders anything about community building.…
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Hadrian Belove, Tim League, Eric Vespe
Wednesday, March 12
Do you know who your super fans are? Passionate fanbases have been influential for decades, but the expansion of digital and social media has changed how you connect with them, and how they connect with each other. How d…
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Danielle Strle, Jackie Indrisano, Shana Krochmal, Rae Votta