Sitting here at the Austin Convention Center, catching up on emails and projects before things officially get started at South By South West (SXSW). Another conference on the calendar, another opportunity to learn.
I have had the privilege of attending a wide-variety of conferences over the years, and from each gained something to help with my everyday tasks. From learning more about CSS and Design at Web Design World and An Event Apart, to search, social and analytics at Search Engine Strategies and SMX. I always enjoy hearing how others are working in the digital space, and sometimes, I even get to share my experience as well. Sometimes you give, sometimes you get.
Creative people sharing ideas, successes and failures = the opportunity to learn. I enter every conference in hopes of walking away with one nugget of information that can help move the needle for our partners.
Which brings us here, to SXSW, one of the largest, most diverse technology conferences in the world. People from all angles of digital: Video, bloggers, app developers and much more here to connect, and share ideas.
I am looking forward to meeting some new folks, even though I generally consider myself a terrible networker, I try. More importantly, re-connecting with some great folks that I have had the opportunity to meet at some point in the past, or some folks that I have come to know digitally.
Stay tuned, if you like for some un-edited, ramblings…
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