[We're done for the day, March 15, 2010 at #SXSW]
Time to go see if Evan Williams is going to reveal Twitter's magic strategy. HEY, WE'LL TAKE NO FAIL WHALE!
Announces @anywhere – so you can integrate your site with Twitter oAuth, or sign-up and follow from within the page. But what about the whale @ev? Who is the interviewer? What does Twitter have to do to become stable. Was he given the questions ahead of time? #badinterview He even said he wasn't going to ask the "revenue model" question. UH! Why not? It's the real question we came to hear.
Could this have been better as a Q and A? The canned responses are booooring. Sorry, I said it. "Door vs. transparency vs" KEEPING THE SERVICE UP!
One of the lamest interviews ever. Let the people tweet. Who is this Harvard Business Review guy and how did he get there, right up there on stage? Seriously, I guess @ev needed some protection from the crowd of questions. What's on the tip of your tongue to ask @ev?
Interviewer: Director of the Havas Media Lab, Umair Haque founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. What's HIS FOURTH PRINCIPAL? Now Umair is directing questions to himself. #fail
Lesson to #sxsw interview and keynotes: BE INSPIRING. The crowds are now flowing out of the doors, and why… ? What's missing? Inspiration!
Ladies and Gentlement @ev Evan Williams has just crossed over into the land of the out-of-tough executive. They are not talking to the audience, they are talking to themselves. It's not dreamy. It's boring and lacks integrity!
But we should really see one with the word #fail in it. Anybody?
PCWorld covered the unKEYNOTE like this: "During and after the speech, Twitter was jammed with tweets about how boring the whole thing was. Like this one: / LaurieManny: Audience walks out on Twitter CEO Keynote…line to get out of room… / A line to get out of the room! Before the speech, a long, long, long line waited to get in to see whatwas bar far the highest-profile session of the conference. — PCWorld: SXSW-Twitter Announcement a Real Yawner
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Lesson #1 of SXSW 2010: Visual is where it's at. Drawing, sketching, jotting. At the Visual Note Taking panel with some true jotting rockstars. And look, they gave us a book:
Okay, gotta get off the computer and sketch baby, yeah! … Or… Let's see what Sunni Brown has to teach us:
"Stand up and look at the people around you. Now pretend like you are using a phone. ..pause.. We're losing them, no, don't talk, PRETEND to TALK." Image from http://twitpic.com/18t5cq
If you have spelling fears… Bring whiteout, use photoshop, get over the fear. "Forgive yourself and move on," Sunni Brown.
Biggest fear is a blank page. Just make a mark.
An example for Ed Emberly's simple design ideas. Thought of the session, "drawing is collage."
Wow, here's something amazing from Varick Rosete's V as in Vulture blog. Here's his professional blog.
Slide:ology (Amazon link) the book referenced in the presentation.
"If you are a WORDS dude, make sure you learn about typography. You can make your words pictures."
"When someone says something that's total bullshit, I use that time to draw everything cached in my short-term memory"-@sunnibrown #viznotes
The Time-Management Notes mentioned in the presentation.
Mind-Maps. Mind-Jet. Spokes. Web. Structure.
And one more wonderful #viznotes capture by Mike Rohde:
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Perhaps a little slice of heaven up in NORTHxNORTHWEST AUSTIN with some colleagues. And now we I am hoofin it back to #sxsw. For the penultimate day.
But before I go… We came up with an idea as part of a joke just a second ago, and here's the REAL TWATTER.COM – the anti-social network.
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My first REAL DUD of a party/panel/event was the Reverse VC Pitch Party put on by Larry Chiang. Most of the people in the room PAID to be there. The idea according to the Event Bright posting: "VCs are here to charm you. Normally, you pitch VCs. Well at this event the VCs will be pitching you.?" That would've been a great idea had it been true.
Things started off a bit fishy when I was standing at the desk in the Driskil Hotel asking where the event was being held. There was another gentleman there as well with the same question. In a slew of last minute emails from Larry Chiang, the location had been moved to Roy's, a restaurant/bar across from the convention center. As late as 5:10 pm Larry was still sending out the Driskill as the location. DOH!
But here's what the scene was inside.
Red tags for VCs and White for everyone else. The room was a awash in white tags. And by 11:00 PM it was clear there would be NO Reverse PITCH. "You mean THIS IS IT?" I heard several people ask. YEP.
Well, congrats to Mr. Chiang for his profitable event. May he do no more.
@jmacofearth
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SXSW 2010 posts from earlier:
- Geo-This Geo-That: Gowalla Wins ATX Social Media Darlings Award at #SXSW; Exclamations of "So What!"
- Another Winding Down at SXSW: Social Media Club HOUSE at Dusk #smch3
- #SXSW Rockstar SuperPowers Now Available in Austin, Texas (jetpacks optional)
- SXSW Interactive Panel Picker: My Get-R-Done Project to "Do Something for Good"
