| SXSW @Austin done Tokyo style | | Jeremy Garner | | 15 March 2012, 11:50AM | For me, trying to choose a favourite talk from Austin’s SXSW interactive festival this week would be like lining up a row of twelve pots of deliciously fruity yoghurt and stating that I was only allowed to have one.
| | | | | | | | | | SXSW Day 5: Bringing it together | | andrew@gravitythinking | | 15 March 2012, 1:34AM |  The final day featured a UKTI and Chinwag networking event - The Great British Breakfast including Heinz Baked Beans and specially imported Yorkshire Tea as an incentive for everyone to get up early !
| | | | | | | SXSW Day 3: Sun - What a difference a Ray makes | | andrew@gravitythinking | | 15 March 2012, 1:22AM |  Woke up top Sunshine and 80 degrees – YAY !
Started the early day in a Austin Café filled with runners, chilling and delegates mixing - coffee, pancakes, emails and Twitter.
| | | | SXSW Day 2: Sat: Keep it weird Austin! | | andrew@gravitythinking | | 15 March 2012, 12:39AM |  Saturday brought more British weather but on an American scale as the heavens literally opened meaning I missed the first session of the day trying to avoid getting completely soaked.
I attended 3 sessions - a reading on transmedia storytelling #SXacg2ts and two keynotes on career / life planning #SXstartyou and How to read the World#SXThurston on the role of technology, comedy and satire in transforming the world around us.
| | | | SXSW Day 1: Cool, hectic, unsettling, inspiring, scary, social....all at once ! | | andrew@gravitythinking | | 15 March 2012, 12:33AM | | Avoid FOMO (fear of missing out) - I was warned about this in all the briefings but had not understood the relevance until we were thrown into South By (as it is known ) after the briefing when you realize the enormity of the conference - 14 venues across the city attended by 20k people - as per the title of the blog - it was immediately cool, hectic, unsettling, inspiring, scary....all at once ! | | | | BBC to launch paid for iTunes-style download service | | @gordonmacmillan | | 14 March 2012, 8:16PM |  BBC director general Mark Thompson has confirmed that the Corporation plans to launch a paid for iTunes-style download service, which will allow viewers to buy programmes just after they have aired.
| | | | How to train your staff to handle your social media [infographic] | | Polly Becker | | 14 March 2012, 2:20PM |  You don’t need social media consultants, you need an infographic. Besides those consultants can be pricey, but seriously there are some top tips here that will get you thinking about social media and the issue of training, which is one that many organisations need to, or soon will, have to tackle.
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