I have 4 days to try and learn as much as I can about the future of journalism and media, education and technology, entrepreneurship and blogging at this years South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. I plan on attending panels and keynotes from dawn til dusk, while meeting new people and attending after parties to listen to some new great tunes. Follow along as I share everything I see and do by blogging live from the conference, if I haven’t passed out from exhaustion!
Here is a quick look at panels I plan to attend:
Day 1: Saturday March 13
- Community Funded Reporting
- Citizen Journalism Brigade: Making Your Voice Matter
- Universities in The Free Era
- Transmedia 2010: Are We There Yet?
- How to Make a Living As a Blogger
Day 2: Sunday March 15
- Process Journalism: Getting it First While Getting it Right
- Story.Next- Narrating The Crowd
- Influence and Innovate: Transforming Media Education
- Online News of Tomorrow
- CrowdControl: Changing The Face Of Media Or Hype?
- Moblizing the Power of Interns and Managing GenY
Day 3: Monday March 15
- After Magazines: WIRED’s Digital Rebirth
- Creative Youth: Organic, Collaborative, and Throw-Away Media
- Student Startups: Entrepreneurship in the University
- Convergence 2010: Ten Cool Things That Could Happen This Year
- Visual Note-Taking 101
- Multiplatform Storytelling: A Master Class with Tim Kring
Day 4: Tuesday March 17
- Journalism Next: Thriving in the Digital Age
- Broadcast to Broadband: Bringing Motion Graphics to Interactive Television
- The Business of Media Distribution – Monetizing Film, TV and Video Content in an Online World
- Welcome To The State of Now
- Could The iPad Have Saved Gourmet? The (New) Future of Magazines
- How To Save Journalism
- The Effects of Twitter on News
Talk about busy- and that isn’t even including the sponsored parties or meet & greet sessions. If you are heading to SXSW Interactive 2010 please let me know I’d love to meet up and talk about #smcedu or #techacademy. See you there!
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