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#SWSXi 2011 Day 2 Experience
The second day of SXSW 2011 is now complete. It was a much longer and fuller day than yesterday with sessions beginning at 9:30 AM and ending around 6 PM. A few general observations: It is even bigger...
View Article#SXSWi Session Notes: Games: Tools for Mass Communication
These are my raw notes from this session. GameSalad: building games for beginners. The Storymaker. Bar Karma iPhone app. Current.com/studios. Could potentially give you your start in writing...
View Article#SXSWi Session Notes: Flexible Morality of User Engagement & User Behavior
These are my raw notes from this session. Predictably Irrational – book. Second session today here this book has been mentioned. LinkedIn Maps When we have an opportunity to cheat, we all do a...
View Article#SXSWi 2011 Key Takeaways
The annual South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival wrapped up over a week ago and I am finally starting to feel caught up on sleep and missed work. I have had the time to reflect on the...
View ArticleWhat did SXSWi teach us?
Below is a Prezi I put together for a couple of agency presentations I was scheduled to give post-SXSW. It sums up my key takeaways from SXSW 2011. .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links {...
View ArticleLet's Play
Another trending topic at South by Southwest this year was the incorporation of game dynamics into social media, communications and generally any type of task where people need to be motivated to...
View ArticleZynga IPO
Last week, Roby Brock and I talked about the trend for social media companies to enter IPOs, and Zynga came up in our conversation as one on the horizon for entering that realm. Well, it happened a...
View ArticleBook Review: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can...
One of the most interesting facts from this book: “A recent major survey of high-level executives, including chief executive officers, chief financial officers, and presidents, revealed that 70 percent...
View ArticleLoving Turntable
Have you checked out turntable.fm yet? While music is in my life everyday, I am not very knowledgeable about or good at finding the stuff I like. Let’s just say I don’t have an exceptionally discerning...
View ArticleGames as Practice For the Real World #SXSWi
There is a misperception that spending vast amounts of time staring at a screen means that a person is withdrawn, antisocial and perhaps socially awkward. At SXSW this week, this topic came up a few...
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