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Incredible Creativy and Connections at SXSW

March 15th, 2010 By James

This is my first trip to SXSW and I didn’t know what to expect at all once we hit ground zero.  It is incredible!
While I am not a fan of extremely large crowds, the overall atmosphere is really cool.  There is quite a diversity of people from all walks of life, from all over the [...]

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It’s All About Community

March 15th, 2010 By cory

A couple months ago I got a copy of The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt. It came at a perfect time for iThemes as we were trying to emphasize and focus on our customer community.
Tara gives some foundational advice about community marketing in it … and it quickly became a framework and way to communicate [...]

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The SXSW WordPress BBQ

March 15th, 2010 By cory

It’s always neat to be at WordPress-specific events, whether it be WordCamps (around the world) or our own Bootcamps where we met our WordPress customers … but the OMG WordPress BBQ yesterday at SXSW was pretty cool.
Here’s who I got to talk with (there were many more but I didn’t take good notes) …

Aaron Brazell, [...]

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Meet ‘Em and Greet ‘Em

March 15th, 2010 By Matt

The SXSW Interactive has sessions on some of the most cutting edge techniques and technologies around. We have taken away some extremely valuable knowledge from this event. But the part of the conference that you can’t put a price on is the people you can meet. I hope you have checked out the “Cool Folks [...]

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Poster Show

March 14th, 2010 By adbrad

I’ve been loving the posters all over the place promoting film screenings and random brands all over the place here in Austin. SXSW had a sweet poster show set up so I snapped some iPhone shots and without wi-fi, I’m posting from my phone.
I’m a big fan of creative print process and limited edition prints, [...]

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SXSW Swag Bag

March 14th, 2010 By Matt

Maybe the first thing you will notice about this post is that it has no images. Want to know why? Because the swag bag sucked. I found a few items of interest, and sure the bag itself was cool looking, but the majority of what was inside was a huge waste. I ended up throwing [...]

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Making Viral Video

March 13th, 2010 By Matt

We are sitting in the Making a Viral Video session, and I can t help but think about how terribly universal this information is.  Here are some of the high points:
It starts with great content – You cant make bad content good.
If you have great content, try to present it well – Production value definitely [...]

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The One Geek Event to Never Miss Again

March 13th, 2010 By cory

Today is our first official day of attending SXSW Interactive and I can already tell this is the one geek event we put on our calendars every year and NEVER miss again.
I say this before I’ve even attended a session …. because events are about people.
Love the content shared at these, but for me it’s [...]

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SXSW Day 1

March 13th, 2010 By Matt

Most of today was spent traveling from OKC to Austin. Once we got past the terrible traffic, found out hotel, and caught a shuttle to downtown, the excellence began. Unfortunately, we missed almost all the sessions for today, but we still got to meet and hang with some awesome people.
We registered and got [...]

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SXSW – A Travel Blog

March 9th, 2010 By Matt

This week, four of us from the iThemes team will be heading down to SXSW for the Interactive conference. We are all SXSW first-timers, so we thought we would drag this little blog along with us to share some of our experiences as we go. Tune in to see what the iThemes guys are up [...]

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Cool Folks We’ve Met @ SXSW

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