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Entries Tagged as 'SXSW'

Best of the Best — Saluting the 2009 SXSW Web Award Winners

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments · SXSW, Web

If a tree falls in the forest, does anyone know? For some reason I’ve felt our most gifted Web designers and content providers for 2009 were being recognized deep in some kind of forest during the recent South by Southwest Web Awards in Austin and, since, have fallen even further off the radar. This post [...]

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Apathetic Customer Service Torpedoes
Local Venue’s Marketing Push

March 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Customer Service, SXSW

House of Blues (HoB) Houston squanders an opportunity to provide some 90 to 100 communicators and marketers with a WOW! experience in customer service.

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Musings on South by Southwest

March 15th, 2009 · No Comments · SXSW

. . . SXSW to most of us, or “South By . . .” for the really cool.
Not ready for a substantive post — stay tuned next week.
For now, join me on Twitter for occasional updates.
I will say that the joy of all of this for me has been the meeting of Lions in the [...]

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