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Are YOU Conference Ready? 5 Tips to Ensure Your Success

by Angela Maiers · March 16, 2011

Using social media to enhance or prepare for a social media event might seem like a no-brainer, but many conference goers get so excited about the “going,” they fail to make the preparations that can transform a good conference into a great one!

So whether you’re thinking about next year’s SXSW or planning a conference event yourself, nearly everything about the experience can be enhanced with the right social tools and attitude.

Are you Conference Ready?

1. Get Storied

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Three Companies, Three Events For SXSW

by Jason Falls · March 8, 2011

Geek Super Bowl is this week. South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, brings the technology, social media and marketing worlds together in a five-day fit of networking insanity that is hands down the biggest event in the business I’m in. And I’ll be there in full force as usual, but with a little different focus this year.

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Get Ready For Firefly Funnel Cake Fandango!

by Jason Falls · March 8, 2010

Some of you know my dad, Chillie Falls, owns a funnel cake trailer. He even blogs about his adventures selling cakes all over Virginia and elsewhere. You also probably know that I’ve been known to put on a party or two in my time. And yeah, sometimes they sound like an odd combination of locations and themes, but we always wind up blowing the roof off the joint.

When Dad joined Twitter and started chatting with all the freaks and geeks in Internetland, he said, “I’d love to go to one of these conferences and meet all these folks.” Well, get ready, Dad.

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FlipVideo Makes Web Video Simple

by Jason Falls · March 24, 2008

So I was sitting in the Bloghaus at South by Southwest (SXSW) one day and Ted Shelton from The Conversation Group comes up and says, “Here! Take this camera and go shoot the SXSW experience and bring it back to me. I’ll post your video on the web. Maybe you’ll even get a free camera.” I look at the unit, a FlipVideo Ultra not much bigger than a decent cell phone. It fits in your pocket and has about four buttons on it. I’m skeptical, but figure what the heck. But I never leave a chance to get a free gadget in limbo.

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Tamar Weinberg Is Simply Mashable

by Jason Falls · March 12, 2008

Getting Tamar Weinberg to do an on-camera interview for you is tough. But somehow, I did it. She recently joined the team at Mashable.com and we chatted about it at South by Southwest (SXSW) yesterday. She didn’t exactly get real in depth on what she’s doing, so you can read more about it here.

Tamar and I first met at SMX Social Media in New York. She is a power user of many social media bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and more.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cXSdl6Xxs[/youtube]

And no, I didn’t transcribe the video. I’ve got to give her something to complain about, right?

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ReGeneration Catching On At SXSW

by Jason Falls · March 11, 2008

Dell is behind a community of environmentally-conscious friends called ReGeneration. They stopped me between sessions at South by Southwest (SXSW) this weekend and asked what I was doing to look out for the environment. Here’s the video. I’m proud to be featured first in a compilation of answers from great folks.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIUoAcGWpgM[/youtube]

Honestly, I’m not doing nearly enough to look out for the environment. None of us are. It might be the single most important thing we all take for granted. So let this community serve as a social media mechanism (tool) that serves as a reminder to us all. Join ReGeneration. Stay up to date with their happenings by subscribing to their RSS feed. If anything, it at least will help remind us more frequently to pay attention to the way we treat Mother Earth.

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The Marketing Of No Marketing At SXSW

by Jason Falls · March 10, 2008

There might be a social post later, but the “Self-Replicating Awesomeness, The Marketing Of No Marketing,” session is worth a post of its own. In my opinion, six of the top social media and community building minds on the planet were panelists. There’s too much knowledge there to just mention it.

Scott Monty Stowe Boyd and I joined up with Kristie Wells to go to the session, which was weird since it featured her husband, Chris Heuer, along with Jeremiah Owyang, Hugh MacLeod, Deb Schultz and Tara Hunt and moderated by David Parmet. The framework for the conversation was to find out how to market into a community without being overbearing like traditional advertising and how to build community around a product.