Get Out And Vote: Choose your favorite SXSW Panels!
SXSW Interactive is a fantastic conference (heck, we don’t need to tell you that), and we think it’s so great that we want to take part by speaking at the festival in Austin next March.
We’ve pitched 6 ideas to the organizers:
- Speed Dating for Coders and Designers: Find your Business Mate. Are you entrepreneurially minded? Do you need to find a talent to match against your own? They say partnerships are like marriages, but how do you find one and make it successful? This session is half tips, strategies, and experiences from the presenters and half interactive session to meet and greet other attendees and make connections.
- Conquest Through Integration: Building Partnerships Via API. APIs are not just a tool for developers. This session demonstrates how to create partnerships and business opportunities centered around integration through open APIs. Learn how to partner with Fortune 500 companies ten times your size and establish marketing partnerships centered around integration.
- GTD for Startups: Getting Things Done in the Real World. We’ve all heard about processing your Inbox, proactive instead of reactive, and ‘Next Action’ lists, but how do you put this into real and varied workflows. We’ll share the actual tips, apps, and collaborative tools that help us implement GTD practices in when managing web development, publishing, customer service, and employees.
- Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid! When Not to Use Frameworks. Frameworks such as Ruby on Rails have received a lot of hype and press in the Web 2.0 community. However, frameworks are not always the best choice for a project. The session focuses on successful products that don’t use frameworks, or did… and wish they hadn’t.
- Startups and Workflows: Tools, Tips, and Strategies that Work. What collection of development, design, and collaboration tools make up the workflow of different roles in a startup? What’s in the bag of tricks that help a designer, developer, and serial entrepreneur get through their day-to-day?
- Blitzkrieg! Rapid Fire Tips on Design, Dev & Business. Experience a whirlwind of pointers as each of our four panelists compete to get 30 action-ready tips in out in under 15 minutes each. Each panelist shares tips from their experiences covering topics that include: Development, Business, Marketing & Design.
If you think any of these are good ideas, you can help make them reality. SXSW wants your feedback. Just head to the SXSW Panel Picker, where you can rate any of the hundreds of potential panels. (Hint: The easiest way to find our panels is to type “surveygizmo” in the Search engine.) Just click on a panel’s title to get the detailed description. You’ll have to register before you can rate the panels, but it’s a free, quick and painless process.
We encourage you to get out and vote!
