Highlights and lessons from my first time at SXSW Interactive.
Amazon, Google & Microsoft Discuss Cloud Computing at SXSW
Posted on Mar - 17 - 2009
Representatives from Google, Microsoft and Amazon gathered for a panel at SXSW to discuss the value, the future and the changes in cloud computing.
Categories: Lessons & Epiphanies
Blogging from SXSW – Monday
Posted on Mar - 16 - 2009
Today seems to be the opposite of my previous two days. After deliberately taking everyone’s advice on taking a ‘go with the flow’ approach to the SXSW experience, somehow today has proven crazy-ass busy. 10:30 panel: Beyond Aggregation This was a great panel where we got to hear wonderful speakers, including blogger Louis Gray, discuss [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies, Mentors
Blogging from SXSW – Sunday
Posted on Mar - 15 - 2009
Well, today is day #2 and it’s been quite the interesting ride so far. It’s hard to be substantive at a public computer (no laptop – don’t ask!) while standing on sore feet between sessions, but this is a random brain dump of some different things I’ll be circling back to in more detail over [ Read More ]
Categories: Lessons & Epiphanies
Matt Cutts from Google Announces Friend Connect API at PubCon South
Posted on Mar - 12 - 2009
Matt Cutts from the Google Webspam Team announced the launch of Google’s Friend Connect API during his keynote speech this morning at PubCon South in Austin. The official announcement will be posted by Google later this morning, but Matt took took the opportunity to share the good news with the PubCon crowd during his remarks. [ Read More ]
Categories: Lessons & Epiphanies
Live from PubCon South: Fireside Chat with Chris Brogan and Guy Kawasaki
Posted on Mar - 11 - 2009
While normally the idea of a “fireside chat” in Austin, Texas would be a little warm, today’s unusually chilly weather brought all new appeal to the idea. So, in honor of the rainy weather and the keynote title, Chris Brogan obliged by pulling up a fireplace video on his laptop, and placing it on the [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies
Time Management & New Projects
Posted on Feb - 12 - 2009
Well, things have been crazy as I’ve been learning the ropes for my new roles: Principal & Co-Founder of The Indigo Heron Group, Inc. and Managing Editor of Social Computing Magazine. Lots to learn and lots to do, much of which has taken it’s toll on my blogging efforts. I’m working on some new time [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs
ProjectWorld Keynote: Ret. General Russel L. Honoré
Posted on Nov - 26 - 2008
The other keynote I attended at ProjectWorld was General Russel L. Honoré, (Ret), Commander of JOINT TASK FORCE KATRINA. This was another one that didn’t hold a particular appeal beforehand, but proved very interesting – and for reasons that I never would have expected. Here are two video clips of his talk. His central point [ Read More ]
Categories: Lessons & Epiphanies
ProjectWorld Keynote: Sunil Chandra from Google
Posted on Nov - 26 - 2008
At ProjectWorld, one of the keynote speakers was Sunil Chandra, Director HR Technology & Operations at Google. Ironically this wasn’t one of the keynotes I was most interested in attending, but I’m glad I did. Aside from his very engaging speaking style, Sunil had an exceptional point to make. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5uPkbcLjc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Sunil pointed out that, for [ Read More ]
Categories: Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies
Speaking at ProjectWorld
Posted on Nov - 25 - 2008
I recently went to Orlando to spend four days at ProjectWorld and the World Congress of Business Analysts Flagship. While taking a trip half-way across the country while in the midst of a job hunt is not necessarily the world’s most prudent idea, I had agreed to speak at the conference last summer when the [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional
The Role of Web2.0 in Obama’s Victory
Posted on Nov - 11 - 2008
I could go on (and on and on and on) about Obama’s victory — about the fact that this type of thing is precisely what kept me in politics for so long, about the fact that this was the most exciting election of our lifetime, about the fact that he’s got a huge undertaking in [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies