Every year, a number of Dutch people go to Texas for SXSW. They join forces so that the “stay-at-homes” can follow all the news in a few places:
Via Wilbert Baan's Twitter list ;
Via the SXSWnl Tumblr set up by Gerson Veenstra and Patrick Loonstra;
Via the site of Fast Moving Targets by Erwin Blom and Roeland Stekelenburg and the app Incrowd . That is the new app by Vincent Everts with which you can record videos about an event or theme together in a channel. Search for FMT@SxSW;
Via Dutch Fellows , official partner of SXSW interactive.
Social & blogging sessions
For my work as a product manager bloggers & social, I try to find sessions that fit my field of expertise. A selection from the large range of sessions that I hope to attend:
A Home of the Web : The State of Blogging in 2013 by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg list to data and Kara Swisher of the blog All things Digital;
Keynote by Tina Roth Eisenberg , aka Swissmiss , a design blog with 1.3 million unique visitors per month;
The Rise of Contextual Social Networks , panel discussion with people from LinkedIn, Path and Techcrunch;
Brands, Bloggers & the Social Commerce Future by the CEO of Blogher , America's largest women's community;
The Rise of the Planet of the Creatives , with folks from Tumblr, Cinemagraphs, and Of a Kind;
Jane Pratt: Secrets of a Publishing Renegade , founder of xoJane.com and known for her revolutionary way of creating women's titles (first paper and now online only).
Of course you will also find a daily wrap up of the sessions of the day here on Frankwatching , a number of articles by Gert Hans Berghuis , Jeroen van Erp , Matthijs Klinkert , Pieter Jongerius , Erik van der Meer and Sanne Wijbenga (from Fabrique) that delve deeper into a number of developments and of course I will write about the trends from the States, SXSW 2013.
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