The American Cancer Society at SXSW 2009

If you haven’t heard about SXSW let me let you in on a secret. It’s the best Learning experience you can have as a professional in the field of Web Development, Marketing, Filmmaking or as a Musican. Bar none. You can take TED and toss it out the window. You can attend Poptech with all your hipster friends and learn nothing. Or you can take a week and attend SXSW in 2009.

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Social Change Behind the FireWall submitted by Holly Ross
Successful nonprofits using social media are masters of social change behind the firewall.   This panel shares best practices through stories from nonprofit institutions and examines  how to get past resistance,uncooperative IT departments, and skepticism from management to  reap the power of social media for social change beyond the firewall.  (PS – Jonathan Coleman, Beth Kanter and I will be on this panel and we’ll be wearing special costumes ..)

IGNORE: Hitting Your Social Quota submitted by Kristine Gloria
I’ve got 10x0x friends, and you’re not one of them. A discussion on why setting a social quota may not be a bad idea. Although this concept is highly understood, how can one manage the thousands of people on any given social network. The days of social media whores are numbered. Come see how to manage your digital landscape and why reject with comments should be the killer app.