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Comment on Vote: bring nonprofit panels to SXSW by Nancy Garcia

comments-o-matic — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:30:05 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the article. I’ll review and vote soon. There’s a great panel proposed by the non-profit Rhizome at The New Museum about emerging trends in Internet Art that I highly recommend.

Link: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6301

I’ve proposed a talk that is art-related as well. I’ve worked with non-profits, and would like to continue to do so. Here’s the talk I’ve proposed for SXSW. I think folks in all industries will find it interesting:

Link: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6344

Thanks!

Nancy Garcia
Digital Strategist

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Comment on Routine Busting With My Head up in the Clouds by TonyB

comments-o-matic — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:10:05 +0000

Thanks for this post. A service I recently found and like to synchronize multiple computers is dropbox.com. It’s a shame I didn’t discover it earlier.

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Comment on Vote: bring nonprofit panels to SXSW by Jo

comments-o-matic — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:30:07 +0000

Thanks, Annie! You’ve got some really interesting-looking panels, too… I hope I’ll get to see them in Austin!

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comments-o-matic — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:30:06 +0000

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Comment on Vote: bring nonprofit panels to SXSW by Annie Lynsen

comments-o-matic — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:10:06 +0000

Thanks for posting these, Jo! They all look awesome!

We’ve added Beaconfire’s panels to our list: http://www.smallact.com/blog/vote-for-great-nonprofit-panels-at-sxsw/

Good luck to everyone who submitted!

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comments-o-matic — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:50:06 +0000

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Comment on Evolution of the Widget by Tim

comments-o-matic — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:00:11 +0000

You mention that the size is sometimes a factor and I thought I’d throw in another example of why this is true. When we test across different browsers there are almost always slight variances in the ways IE, Firefox, and Safari render fonts and sizes of things (even between Mac and PC). For the most part, an item being a few pixels lower on the page in Safari than it is in Firefox is not a problem. But when you are building a widget that is only 200 pixels tall to begin with, those small discrepancies can quickly become the difference between “working” and “not working.” I’m always surprised by how much more back and forth there tends to be when testing the layouts of widgets as opposed to full sites.

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Comment on The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man by Marissa

comments-o-matic — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:20:13 +0000

This campaign was absolutely brilliant. As someone who rarely falls for these kinds of marketing ploys, I found myself watching these videos over and over again (although that’s easy to do when you’re up at 3:00am with a 7-month old). It almost made me want to Tweet myself (which, despite my previous post does not happen that often). But then I decided not to, because, and Jo, I hate to break your heart, he was already talking to me.

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Comment on The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man by Eve

comments-o-matic — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:20:15 +0000

While we all love these ads (like, REALLY love…), it looks like the market isn’t as much of a fan. Old Spice sales have actually dropped 7%.( http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/business-news-briefs/2010/07/old_spice_sales_drop_7_despite.html)

With all the media attention, viral appeal and soon-to-be-pop-icon status, is this because the ads are not targeting the right market? Women love Mr. Old Spice, but men are the ones doing the buying. Thoughts?

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Comment on The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man by Tim

comments-o-matic — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:20:15 +0000

It makes sense to me that this could happen. Even beyond the question of who was being targeted and who does the buying, I think at some point a marketing campaign can become so successful that is transcends the product. Also the content of the videos is really very abstracted from Old Spice. It’s more about Mustafa than body wash.

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