Lovin' this week: SXSW Style
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 11:23AM I just spent the last 5 days in Austin for SXSW. If you are a full-on geek with a passion for technology and interactive go next year. I know I'll be going :)
Favorite people I met
Meredith Stevens - Digital Marketing Manager with National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Katie Morse - Community Manager at Radian6
Andrew Hyde - startup enthusiast (great website layout and content)
Rachel and Heather - founders of Tweety Got Back (great site design too)
David Spinks - Community Manager at Scribnia
A twitter employee (AHHH!!!)
Alex Watson - Editor for a UK tech site bit-tech
Patrick Johnson - Junior at NYU. Probably the best conversation I had all week.
Elaine Ellis - Community Manager at Trada
Sites I now love
Swappler - online tool that allows fashion designers and stores to create, control and customise their presence online.
Scout books - make custom pocket notebooks for $195 for 50 books.
Stickybits - a fun and social way to attach digital content to real world objects via barcodes.
Huddlehub - (launching soon) it's a fantasy sport aggregator/social network.
Citizen Effect - a social philanthropy site
Tweety Got Back - free twitter backgrounds and themes
Clientshow - basically Basecamp for agencies and clients
Aviary - a web based image editor (similar to picnik) that works like Photoshop
Any of my readers go to SXSW? What companies/people did you meet?
Reader Comments (4)
This totally made my day that you named me as one of the favorite people you met. I am not worthy.
But I did have a total blast hanging with you.
You do deserve it! I was so honored to be invited to that amazing breakfast. Let's reunite CCMC (Cool Community Managers Club) in 2011.
I can't wait to check out all these links! One day...I'll go to SBSW with my husband (he's a designer, too!) We talk about it every year and live vicariously through friends who go & super folks like you who share all your faves. Thanks so very much!
Also -- thanks for the great link on homemade carnival lights. I've been wanting to get one of those big paper letters for awhile now. I may have to give it a try! Unless, of course, I can talk my metal welding step-dad into making something a bit...heftier :) (I feel major bribing in the works!)
I was just glad to finally meet a lot of the folks I've formed relationships with online over the past few years. And it was an actual vacation (of sorts, since I am a freelancer I had no company to report back to other than my wife).