SXSW: Now I Can Talk to My IT Team!

SXSW: Now I Can Talk to My IT Team!

Trouble at the Office I have been working on a project at my office involving my IT director, her student intern, and an outside vendor that supplies a cloud-based platform for curating content. The platform allows you to collect text, images, YouTube videos,...
SXSW: Eye Tracking on Tablets

SXSW: Eye Tracking on Tablets

One of the most interesting sessions I was able to review from SXSW was a session explaining recent research from the Poynter Institute. Their research investigated how individuals interact with content on iPads – what articles they look at, which ones they...
SXSW 2013: Tina Roth Eisenberg Keynote

SXSW 2013: Tina Roth Eisenberg Keynote

The keynote address by Tina Roth Eisenberg on March 10 was wonderful. Tina is known by her blog and Twitter handle SwissMiss (www.swiss-miss.com). She is a graphic designer who is originally from Switzerland and currently resides in New York City. She also runs a...
2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference

2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference this year for the first time. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot! My posts about my experience are below. Enjoy! Travel Tech May 6, 2013 – To wrap up my...
Building a Team the Suzy Merchant Way

Building a Team the Suzy Merchant Way

As the NCAA basketball tournament gets underway, I’ve been thinking a lot about some words of wisdom that I heard from the Suzy Merchant, the MSU women’s basketball coach. As a Michigan State University employee, I was fortunate to attend a staff meeting...
SXSW: What I’m Looking Forward To

SXSW: What I’m Looking Forward To

South by Southwest (SXSW) has hundreds and hundreds of sessions split between the three overlapping conferences (interactive, film and music). As a first-timer, I can vouch for it being overwhelming. Luckily (maybe?) for me, I’m a major type-A person and am...