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

Last month, as I was listening to a webinar about the recently-published 2009 Tribalization of Business Study, I tweeted this top-level finding: “Getting people to engage and participate” is one of the biggest obstacles to building successful online communities.
David Parmet quickly responded with this observation: “I hate when these ideas are framed so that it’s [...]

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 [...]

So just how do you decide who to trust online?

That’s the question Chris Brogan and Julien Smith were asking while roaming the halls of the MarketingProfs Digital Mixer in Scottsdale, Arizona — Flip cams in hand — last fall.
I don’t remember exactly how I responded, except that I was generally incoherent.
But if Chris and Julien [...]

This is an admission from a PR person who was unsuccessful in pitching me by e-mail earlier this week:
We don’t have the time to read everyone’s blog – your description says ‘Person is a blogger who writes about social media’ and when we see that, it is what fits our category – just so you [...]

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 [...]

Interesting recommendation by Chris Brogan yesterday on the right way to limit the number of Twitter posts that link to your own content:
Post the occasional tweet about a particularly good blog post to Twitter. Do this at a rate of about 1:12, meaning one post about your stuff to any 12 tweets about other people’s [...]

At the Community 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas last month, I joined forces with Jim Storer and Aaron Strout from Mzinga (disclosure: my employer, Monster, is a Mzinga client) in recording and producing a series of podcast conversations with some of the event’s presenters and attendees.
I wanted to share some of the details behind our [...]