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3/7 – 4:30PM – Room Day Stage

People are talking about you online. What are they saying? How do you find out? How do you respond? And how can you use the conversation to your benefit? The explosion of social media – blogs, social networking sites, video sharing sites – has ushered in a new era of digital transparency that puts the power to enhance or destroy a reputation in the hands of the consumer. This timely and practical book shows you how to harness the power of social media with crucial, proven tactics and strategies for every phase of online reputation management. Using step-by-step instruction and tested techniques, the expert authors unveil a detailed blueprint for building, managing, monitoring, and repairing your reputation. They detail important public relations, search engine optimization, research, and online content creation strategies and provide a seven-step action plan so that you can develop the skills necessary to monitor and manage your reputation.

Andy Beal Consultant & Author, Marketing Pilgrim

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3/7 – 5:00PM – Room Day Stage

The trick to great design is knowing how to think through each decision so that users don’t have to. In Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman, author of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that illustrate how to put good design principles to work on real-world web application interfaces to make them obvious and compelling. From the first impression to the last, Hoekman takes a think out loud approach to interface design to show us how to look critically at design decisions to ensure that human beings, the kind that make mistakes and do things we don’t expect, can walk away from our software feeling productive, respected, and smart.

Robert Hoekman Jr CEO/Principal Experience Designer, Miskeeto LLC

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3/7 – 5:00PM – Room 12AB

Powerpoint meets Karaoke in this battle of wits. Watch your favorite speakers craft an off-the-cuff presentation using slides they’ve never seen before. Eight competitors will have five minutes to complete their presentation. Three judges will score the participants based on their use of jargon, gesturing and credibility. Who will take home the trophy and who will totally choke? Come see for yourself!

Lane Becker Pres, Get Satisfaction

Erika Hall Co-Founder, Mule Design Studio

Mike Monteiro Design Dir, Mule Design Studio

Katie Spence Crowd Control, Mule Design Studio

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3/7 – 5:30PM – Room Day Stage

Stop by to mingle with fellow film producers. Food and drink provided by Scenchronize.

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3/7 – 3:30PM – Room Day Stage

This book offers web designers and developers actionable solutions that will drive traffic to their web sites. It is written from a development perspective, rather than from the marketing approach of many SEO books. The book provides a contemporary look at how web sites can be built with Search Engine Optimization coding strategies, Microformats, Web Standards, following Accessibility guidelines, and leveraging third party APIs all in an effort to drive traffic. The solutions presented are practical and essential for all web design and development professionals.

Aarron Walter User Experience Designer, MailChimp.com

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3/7 – 5:00PM – Room Carver

Are professional gamers the new athletes of the 21st century? They are making top dollar, staying in the best hotels and competing against other professionals at a game for a living. This session covers the pro gaming phenomenon, focusing on what being a pro gamer is all about, from practice to winning, and how pro gamers can and will influence the computer and video games industries. Panelists also offer tips and advice on how to become a pro gamer.

Adam Boyden Xfire

Craig Levine E-Sports Services

Jason Lake GM, Los Angeles compLexity

Mike Sepso Major League Gaming

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3/7 – 3:30PM – Room 18ABCD

Where should you go? What parties are cool? How can I meet those people that are gasp Internet FAMOUS! Learn this and more at this welcome panel for SXSW Noobs. This panel will provide useful tips for SXSW virgins and veterans from a diverse panel of SXSW Interactive attendees, speakers, and personalities. Come for the laughs, anecdotes, and useful tools that will equip you to “Rawk Out” during SXSW Interactive. I mean, why should Music and Film attendees have all the fun.

Min Jung Kim minjungkim.com

Ian Lloyd accessify.com

Matt Mullenweg Founding Dev, Automattic/WordPress

Jason Toney Disney Online

Rannie Turingan photojunkie.ca

Tim Ferriss www.fourhourworkweek.com

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3/7 – 3:30PM – Room 19AB

Zen masters taught it. Isaac Newton knew it. Scott Adams writes about it. Now you can know it, too We’re talking, of course, about the manifold benefits of being a n00b (at something). And, of course, about all the good stuff that happens post-n00bishness: the excellent side effects of being good at multiple things, even if they’re not related – heck, especially if they’re not related. So many of humanity’s important discoveries, innovations and beautiful leaps of logic have been made by people whose brains were leveled up by the cross-fertilization of multiple interests and disciplines. Nano-thin specialization is out, a broad understanding of life, the universe, and everything is in. It’s time to synergize, baby. So, reach outside your comfort zone, be a beginner again, and you’ll be smarter, sexier, better at you job… even more valuable. With the wisdom of the ages (and a little bit from modern pundits), we’ll talk about how, why, when, and where you can go about it. You won’t regret it.

John Athayde Partner, Hyphenated People/Meticulous

Amy Hoy Hyphenated People LLC

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3/7 – 2:30PM – Room Day Stage

As a web developer, you’ll already know that JavaScript is a powerful language, allowing you to add an impressive array of dynamic functionality to otherwise static web sites. But there is more power waiting to be unlocked—JavaScript is capable of full object-oriented capabilities, and by applying OOP principles, best practices, and design patterns to your code, you can make it more powerful, more efficient, and easier to work with alone or as part of a team. With Pro JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll start with the basics of object-oriented programming in JavaScript applicable to design patterns, including making JavaScript more expressive, inheritance, encapsulation, information hiding, and more. With that covered, you can kick-start your JavaScript development in the second part of the book, where you’ll find detail on how to implement and take advantage of several design patterns in JavaScript, including composites, decorators, facades, adapters, and many more.

Dustin Diaz Engineer, Google

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3/7 – 3:00PM – Room Day Stage

Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don’t look nice? If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.

Jason Beaird Jasongraphix.com

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3/7 – 3:30PM – Room 12AB

The current next-gen landscape has fostered a gaming environment with unprecedented level of interactivity and depth. Game wikis such as WowWiki and FFxiclopedia have long served as respected resources for the largest MMO’s and have enjoyed high use awareness within the communities. As more games start to incorporate MMO-like community elements, Gaming communities have stepped up with a proliferation of fan-run wikis that have caused publishers and developers to take a closer look at the community ecosystem forming around their products. In addition to being great content resources, the communities behind the wikis have become a strong voice and typically including some of the most passionate and influential players of a game. Engaging with the wiki communities has become another way for a developer to monitor the pulse of their community and gain real-time feedback. This panel will examine what makes game wiki communities tick, how developers are leveraging this new community channel, and what to expect in the future as more and more gamers start to take community management into their own hands.

Moderator: Jake McKee Chief Ant Wrangler, Ant’s Eye View

Angelique Shelton GM of Wikia Gaming, Wikia Inc

April Burba Community Mgr, NCsoft

George Pribul Lead Admin, WowWiki.com

Jake McKee Chief Ant Wrangler, Ant’s Eye View

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3/7 – 5:00PM – Room 18ABCD

We create the web. Yet twelve years and two bubbles into its history, we get no respect as a profession. And nobody understands what we do, unless we’re selling to Google or Yahoo. How can architects, designers, writers and coders work with clients, journalists and the public to foster understanding and get their best work produced?

Moderator: Jeffrey Zeldman Founder, Happy Cog

Jeffrey Zeldman Founder, Happy Cog

Douglas Bowman Visual Design Lead, Google

Liz Danzico Information Architect, Happy Cog

Erin Kissane Editorial Dir, Happy Cog

Jason Santa Maria Creative Dir, Happy Cog

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3/7 – 5:00PM – Room 19AB

The odds are your startup will fail. Why fight it. Learn to implode your company with style. This session will review some of the many challenges facing new startups and look at the reasons why the vast majority of big ideas never make it out of the garage. The panelists will address the five things that sink most startups and show you how to do it bigger and better than your competition, which is also going to implode.

Joshua Strebel Pres, obu web technologies inc

Andrew Hyde Startup Weekend

Sean Tierney COO, JumpBox Inc