Presentation for my work colleagues on my SXSW2010 experience

1. Things I learned at SXSWi2010 Friday, March 12 to Tuesday, March 16

6. Chasing Virtual Good in the Real World Josh Williams, CEO Gowalla If social games can motivate a person to alter their life online, can a game like experience inspire people to go out and explore the world around them?

7. Web CMS from a Designers’ Perspective Scott Fegette, Adobe and Chris Charlton, XTND.US http://xtnd.us Video tutorials: http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal Written tutorials: http://adobe.com/devnet

10. New Publishing and Web Content Pro: it's a good time to be in publishing. When you have an industry in the midst of change opportunities for new models emerge Con: it’s a terrible time to try to shoehorn existing content models into the web Erin Kissane, Incisive.nu Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog Studios Lisa Holton, Fourth Story Media Paul Ford, Harper’s Magazine

11. If you’re going to do publishing online… First ask, ‘How do I serve and interact with people?’, then build publishing and editorial above that.

12. Keynote: Systems Design Inspiration Valerie Casey http://www.designersaccord.org

15. RIP CMS Dries Buytaert, Creator and Project Lead, Drupal CTO Aquia “ Users are your content creators now.”

16. Examples of Organizations Using Drupal The Whitehouse IBM Sun Microsystems java.net CNN Forbes.com Intel Atom Sony Erickson Symantec (community)

17. Examples of Universities Using Drupal/ Acquia Clients Alfred State College Ashland University University of Minnesota University of Delaware University of Colorado Empire State College Washington State University MIT International Baccalaureate Delaware County Community College Virginia Tech University of Southern Mississippi Duke Webster University University of Prince Edward Island University of Toronto New York University

18. Adobe All-Access Day Stage Event Updates and Demos: Dreamweaver Flash Mobile Browser Lab

22. Things I learned at SXSWi2010 Friday, March 12 to Tuesday, March 16