Now at South by Southwest (SXSW) through March 26th, Stand Up To Cancer is battling it out in the first ever Social Media Smackdown for charity to raise as much money as possible online for their cause, which aims to attack cancer once and for all by pushing promising scientific breakthroughs to the finish. Participating celebrities and bloggers have been ...

Looks like everyone beat me to it! So enjoy the links! http://blog.brian-fitzgerald.net/?p=478 http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/sxsw-social-media-nonprofit-roi-poetry-slam-slides-links-and-poems-long.html http://www.amysampleward.org/2009/03/14/sxsw-nonprofit-roi-poetry-slam-2/ http://aroconsult.net/blog/?p=45 http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/reflections-from-nonprofit-social-media-poetry-slam.html Video Magic http://www.nten.org/blog/2009/03/15/sxsw-nonprofit-roi-potery-slam

Let me introduce you to crowdcollecting. The video you will watch below consists of seven music tracks/videos that are made exclusively from video material found on YouTube. Kutiman spent 3 months in his bedroom splicing and dicing over one hundred videos for samples of singers and instruments—from guitars, pianos, drums and harps, to synthesizers, a bouzouki and even a cash ...

If you’re coming to town, don’t miss this opportunity to meet all of the top Texas social media users at one party. The Austin American-Statesman, which has been deeply involved in the local social media scene, is honoring 24 Texans who exemplify all that is good about social media. Check out the winners. The Statesman is going to host a ...