Posted August 8th, 2008 at 10:28am
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It’s that time of the year again…
SXSWi, at which I had an awesome time last year, received 1200+ submissions for around 100 panel spots at the 2009 event. For the uninitiated, they use a panel voting system to determine interest in specific topics. It counts for about 30% of the decision, then the SXSW team has about 30% of the vote, and an advisory panel has the rest. So really, this is just one part - but it’s the only one we have some control over! I, and two other adorable and smart women, have proposed a panel on video marketing and we need some love!
I know that not everyone can make it to the event next spring in happy Austin, Texas, but you can certainly express your interest in what you would want to see! 
- Porn stars use online video to manage their ‘business’ reputation, sell their goods, get fans and get subscribers. While you might not be a porn star, you can learn a lot from them about how to use online video to rock your marketing and get real results, and this all-girl panel will show you all of it.
All we need you to do is VOTE! Show your love with 5 stars. You do need to register, but it’s FAST and you can gave some fun voting on others, too.
If you have a panel, please post a comment so we can all vote for you! THANK YOU!
Posted August 7th, 2008 at 9:58am
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Yesterday was the first Wednesday of the month, which means it was Austin SEM Meetup time! This month we talked a bit about video SEO and video marketing basics.
To say that we had some technical challenges would be an understatement! My laptop wireless became all hosed up by the time we started to play the videos embedded into the presentation. After much fumbling, Adam pulled up the slides on this laptop and we switched to that. His played them much better, but not perfectly.
Then we shot a little video to edit with the free Windows Movie Maker (to show that it’s really not hard to do), and Adam’s MM kept crashing. Over and over. So we switched BACK to my laptop, but the internet was still hosed, so I couldn’t upload the video. It was a bloody mess! HA!
We met at the Milwood Library, which seats 50 people, instead of Texpresso (where we were always cramped), but the rows of seats definitely made it less social. (Plus, I wanted some coffee!) We had some new faces comes - which was awesome - plus some veterans who have been to every meeting! (Love you guys!)
All in all it went well, but I wish we had more time to cover more things. I hate thinking that some people might have left missing some info.
As usual, here’s the slide deck. Non-YouTube videos wouldn’t embed, so just click the links. They are text-heavy so they make sense without the actual presentation. I would love any feedback on how to make this better!
laura on January 24, 2009 at 10:34am
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