On Wednesday the 28th April I will be attending SAScon at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. SAScon is a not-for-profit event that will deliver the best insights in Search, Analytics and Social Media and is destined to cause a ripple that will spread beyond the North and dare I say beyond these shores.
Having had a couple of days to mull over SXSW since returning on the worst flight ever, Continental Airlines C034 from Houston to Heathrow, here is my last post on the event. In short some of my takeaway thoughts, advice if you are planning to go next year, what came out well in 2010, what is going nowhere still and people, concepts and technologies to watch for the future….
Here’s the thing about SXSW or “South By” as it is affectionately known. It is full on for almost 24 hours a day and when you think you are about to relax and just have some fun because you have taken in or given as much information as you possibly can, then at that exact moment something or someone else happens and you start all over again.
15,000 people have decended on Austin, Texas for SXSW. Before I say anything else Austin’s slogan is “Keeping it weird” and there are more live music venues here than any other city in the world and it is 75 degrees now. OK that’s the toursity bit over. Neither KMP Digitata or I have been to SXSW before and we will be back there is no doubt. This event is inspiring, wierd, challengeing, thought provoking, amazing for networking, highly educational and a good old fashioned work hard/play hard event that is about the future of the multi-channel digital world we work in.
KMP were proud to sponsor the “Speak the Web” conferences held across the northwest over the last two weeks. With our very own Rich Clarke forming half the super-duo behind the events, we were delighted to be able to attend the events.
