Chinese joss paper used as SXSW table decor?

[Update: Snakes on a Blog has linked to this post!] Panelists Moderator: Alex Williams, Director of Community Development, SplashCast. He’s also the founder of Podcast Hotel. Corey Denis, IODA Digital Marketing Manager, IODA Molly Wright Steenson of Girlwonder.com, just accepted into a PhD at Princeton. Kris Krug, President of Bryght Krug began by telling us…

That’s right. I was just asked to fill up a SXSW feedback form and was amused with some of the questions and answer options. (Note that this survey was more on the *operational* aspects of SXSW rather than the actual content of each panel…) Firstly, we were asked to rate items on a scale of…

Please click on the photo to visit my Flickr page where I’ve labelled the goodies. What can I say? I think this year’s goodie bag’s contents are more substantial. If you love magazines, you’ve hit a goldmine. I’m so glad I didn’t buy Wired magazine. I had a feeling we might get it this time….

Wilkins, Adaptive Path. Organisations tend to see customers too generically. But customers are not all the same. There not always rational or predictable. Organisations think people just want features. So they forget about people’s real needs, which are ‘messy, complex, convoluted’. It takes effort to understand people’s emotions, but it is worthwhile. A qualitative, contextual…

by Aarron Walters, Art Institute of Atlanta. Whatever your role on the web team, findability is your objective. Semantic markup, microformats, user tagging, rss, viral marketing are other important elements. Content is still king. Combining Web Standards and contextual content equals findability bliss. The book covers how to help search engines understand your content better….