Presentation for my work colleagues on my SXSW2011 experience

1. Things I learned at SXSWi 2011 Friday, March 11 to Wednesday, March 16

2. SXSW Interactive Hot Topics for 2011 Multi-platform development Content curation New models of journalism ‘ The Game Layer’ ‘ Giving it away for free’ as a business model

3. SXSW Interactive Examples of Education Specific Sessions SXSWedu, March 8-10, 2011 How Online Learning is Transforming Education and Foundations Philanthropy, and 21st Century Education Using Twitter to Improve College Engagement Learning 2025: School Is out Forever

6. Google's Marissa Mayer Presents Marissa Mayer, Google Location, location, location (and Google)

9. Focusing on the Future of Social Photography Sam Odio, Facebook Jan-David Erlich, Happiness Engines From Flickr to Facebook and onwards to recent developments initiated by new startups (especially mobile related). What's next?

11. Focusing on the Future of Social Photography Sam Odio, Facebook Jan-David Erlich, Happiness Engines Focusing In On the Future of Social Photography on Keepstream

12. Using Twitter to Improve College Engagement Rey Junco, Lock Haven University

13. Research questions Does using Twitter in educationally relevant ways have an effect on student engagement? Does using Twitter in educationally relevant ways have an effect on first semester grades? Left alone will student use of Twitter have an effect on engagement?

15. Keynote: Seth Priebatsch, The Game Layer on top of the World Seth Priebatsch, SCVNGR

16. What is the game layer? Game behaviour in the real world.

17. What can the game layer do for me? Leverage game mechanics to achieve all sorts of great things: 1. Education 2. Customer acquisition 3. Loyalty 4. Location based service – mainstream 5. Solutions to address global warming

22. Radical Openness: Growing TED by Giving it Away June Cohen, Executive Producer, TED A summary of TED’s journey over the past 5 years and interesting things learned

26. Creation, Curation, and the Ethics of Content Strategy Margot Bloomstein, Principal, Appropriate Inc “ If we’re not creating new meaning, our content doesn’t have any value.”

29. NPR’s API: Create Once, Publish Everywhere (COPE) Zach Brand, Sr Dir Technology, NPR

32. Will News Apps Re-Invent Journalism? Aron Pilhofer Editor, Interactive News The New York Times Chris Tomlinson, Supervisory Correspondent The Associated Press Jon Lebkowsky, Chief Digital Officer Plutopia Productions Katharine Jarmul Niran Babalola, Dir of Technology The Texas Tribune

35. Can Design and Technology Fix America's Education Problem? Dennis Littky, Co-Founder/Co-Dir, Big Picture Learning Jon Kolko, Director, Austin Center for Design Steven Tomlinson, Dir of Faculty, Dev Acton School of Business

39. Things I learned at SXSWi 2011 Friday, March 11 to Wednesday, March 16