My curated list of 29 proposed SXSW panels worth your attention and thumbs-up vote!

Of all the events on my upcoming calendar, the one I’m most excited about is very much outside the social media echo chamber. It’s STORY, “a conference for the creative class,” taking place in Chicago this September 23-24.

The event will explore how to “communicate the greatest story every told- Gospel” (yeah, I’m very biased!) and [...]

Some quick hits on last week’s annual WOMMA Summit (disclosure: my employer, LiveWorld, was a sponsor), held at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
* A trip to the emergency room on Day 1 (nothing serious, as it turned out!) derailed a sizable chunk of the event for me, so I didn’t attend nearly [...]

A post from Janet Fouts this morning pointed me to a running list of SXSW Interactive’s “Hot Ideas,” or 60 of the 2000-plus proposed panels that have voters’ attention at the moment.
From that list, here are four that resonate with me:

LifeChurch.tv – Reaching 2 Million+ With Technology – How one church (an online one, in [...]

Pimping for votes isn’t exactly my style.
But when it comes to getting a proposed SXSW Interactive 2010 panel through to the next round of consideration in a very crowded field–there are more than 2,000 potential panels (gulp) up for votes–I don’t know that I have any other choice.
And so it is that I shamelessly ask [...]

When you return from a conference, how do you decide whether the event was actually worth it?
Here are four questions to consider:
1) What did you learn?
Did you pick up something new, or were the sessions entirely a rehash of material you already knew?
2) Were you inspired to move, act, or create?
In his closing keynote at [...]

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Creativity and storytelling were the recurring themes at Podcasters Across Borders 2009, the annual community-minded conference on new media in Kingston, Canada that I attended over the weekend.

PAB 2009 featured solid presentations from start to finish that sent me home chock-full of ideas for creating more compelling content.
Here are some expressions from the speakers that [...]

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I spent a couple of days in Toronto last week at the 2009 mesh conference last week. Here are five thoughts still dancing in my head from the trip:
1) Toronto’s mayor is a Twitter fiend
The fact that David Miller (@MayorMiller on Twitter) knew how to snap and post a Twitpic — with proper hashtag and [...]

Like most of the other 10,000-plus attendees, I had a blast at the South by Southwest Conference this year. Lots of good conversations. Lots of walking (the weird layout of the Austin Convention Center made sure of that). Lots of people with iPhones. And yes, lots of parties.
My focus at the conference was finding good [...]

As I send out a bunch of nice-to-meet you e-mails this afternoon to folks that I met at Forrester’s Consumer Forum 2008 in Dallas on Tuesday and Wednesday, I’m reminded that my favorite business cards are the ones on which I have plenty of white space to scribble down information.
I don’t trust my memory. I [...]