I got to South by Southwest yesterday and I had to hit the floor running — the conference started Friday so there were sessions flying by me. I got to a couple of great talks yesterday and blogged them here. Today, I’m going to three sessions for sure: Margot Bloomstein talking about content, curation and [...]
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SXSW: Todd Park from HHS on the Power of Open Health Data
March 13, 2011 – 3:32 pm
Interesting…Todd Park introduces himself as the CTO and “entrepreneur in residence” at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. I think his point is that his background is tech entrepreneurship. He says, “That may lead you to ask what the hell I’m doing working for the federal government.” My notes below are paraphrases [my [...]
Where I’m going in 2011
January 4, 2011 – 9:48 pm
I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few months learning about additional conferences in my field — seminars related to content strategy, information architecture and management, and related fields like web entrepreneurship, user experience and social media. In 2011, I’m definitely attending SXSW Interactive and GEL. SXSWi is not really an optional conference [...]
RIP Content Management
March 15, 2010 – 10:44 am
Session with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal. Going to be a good counterpoint to the last session, it seems. Couple of problems all businesses face: Webmasters don’t scale. Your proprietary CMS is slow to innovate. Your users are your content creators. Trying to control content is daunting. Choosing a closed-source vendor is risky, depending on [...]
Managing Your Content Management System
March 15, 2010 – 9:13 am
Alex Will and Henry Erskine Crum of Spoonfed Media. They run a web/mobile guide to live events in London. This is a total geek-out topic. They’re going to discuss when and how to build your own content management system. They publish 30,000 event listings a month and generate revenue from ads, sponsorships, and ticket sales. [...]
Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web
March 14, 2010 – 3:31 pm
Wow. There are a lot of speakers here, and they aren’t all listed in the program….and there’s no way I’ll get them all straight. I’ll see what I can do. Gil Elbaz, founder/CEO of Factual. They simplify access to clean, reliable data for publishers. Structure and clean data. Danny Sullivan, Searchengineland Carla Thompson, Guidewire Group. [...]
The Right Way to Wireframe, Part 1
March 13, 2010 – 11:46 am
Now getting ready for a workshop session on wireframing, from a couple of guys I follow on Twitter: @zakiwarfel and @russu. Love this. Starting off with the point that in UX design, we never actually see the work. What’s better, wireframing or prototyping? This is a funny session but so far hard to take notes. [...]
The Era of Crowdsourcing: Guiding Principles
March 13, 2010 – 10:22 am
OK, I’m trying out a new theory this morning. I am sitting waaaay up front. I’m typically your cynical, back-of-the-class type. I’m in a conversation between Scott Belsky, founder of the Behance creative network, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Digg. None of the below are direct quotes, but most of them are close. Kalmikoff: My love [...]
Brian Solis
March 12, 2010 – 4:30 pm
OK, first session….I’m here at the Hilton listening to Brian Solis. He’s talking about brand. For the record, brand is one of those words I hate. Its overuse has killed what used to be a useful word IMHO. His premise is that social media is changing the way we communicate and connect. I’m thinking I [...]
Why I still go to SXSW
March 10, 2010 – 9:57 am
I’ve been to South by Southwest Interactive more than any other work-related conference. In fact, in the past few years, I’ve only missed it because of the arrival of my two youngest children just before and just after the dates of the conference. Someone asked me the other day why I go. The reason is [...]