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Vote for Team N this SXSW

By Tim on Saturday, August 16th, 2008

SXSW PieMichelle sent around a great email today that I’m adapting here, reminding everyone that quite a few people from the Next New Networks team have panels up for voting in the SXSW ‘09 panel picker. We’d love if you’d take a minute to vote and help get their panels chosen for next year’s show.

It only takes a moment to register, and then you can click the little stars to rate the panels you like. You can also comment on each panel, which also makes a difference. Direct links to ours below:

BEN RELLES
When Online Video Crosses Over to Mainstream Media

TIM SHEY
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Web Video
Soapbox Spielbergs: Making Hollywood FX on Indie Budgets (featuring Erik Beck, and Rudy from Pulp Secret/Galacticast!)

SARAH SZALAVITZ
Narcissism or Necessity? (The New Economics of Storytelling)
Collabotition: Can Companies Work With Their Competitors?

Finally, FELICIA WILLIAMS (Our favorite editor at YouTube) teamed up with me to propose this panel:
Advertising is Entertaining - Who’s Selling Out?

If you look around, there are a lot more sweet panels being offered by friends of NNN who rock (like Zadi Diaz and Tantek Çelik), so be sure to vote for them too.

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NNN Rocked SXSW

By Tim on Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I imagine the SXSW Interactive festival can look excessive, with all the blog posts, photos and videos of geeks out every night partying and having a little too much fun. But here’s an example of things that happen at SXSW which are why we all go: boarding the plane today, I ran into Pete Cashmore one last time, whose great blog Mashable had just run an insightful piece about our company a few hours before, and I was able to tell him in person I appreciated the story and let him know we’re fans.

This was just one of a hundred small but important interactions I had with people over the past week who are important to my life and work in some way, many of whom I only see once a year at gatherings like SXSW. It’s become the best opportunity to spend quality time with lots of people from across the interactive (and film and music) world in one place, and I’ve seen returns both personal and professional for every hour I’ve spent there.

The interactive conference was bookended for me by a couple of great NNN-related events that were part of both the Film and Interactive Festivals (which are separate, but feature a handful of joint panels and parties). (more…)

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