Dream come true! Thanks to everyone who voted for my panel ideas for SXSW Interactive. One of them was chosen, but in a new format… as a solo session which will be part of a new series at the conference called “Future15”. I’ll be speaking about web video of course. I’m hugely psyched because SXSW is my all time favorite conference/festival! Applying to speak was a long 6 month process, so I’m beyond stoked it had a happy ending. I spoke and covered SXSWi 2005, 2006 and 2007 but was unable to attend in 2008 because of scheduling conflicts. I had plans to go in 2009 and announce my partnership with FLO TV in Austin… but my husband had to have emergency heart surgery that week. So this will be my triumphant return! Again, thanks to my Twitter & Facebook friends for helping to make this happen.
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I’d love it if you’d be a part of our “best of SD” year end round up! Are you looking for a cool way to plug your brand or blog? Submit a video that’s 20 seconds or less introducing yourself, your favorite SD video and then plug away! Please give your name or handle and up to two urls where people can find out more about you on the net. You can browse the archive here to pick your favorite. Upload your video to flickr or youtube or even 12seconds.tv if you talk super fast! Those are just suggestions, too, any video service will do.
Sample script:
YOU:
“Hey, I’m Mark Weenerberger!
I’d like to nominate Caffeine Confessionals for the best of Sometimesdaily because I drink a LOT of coffee and can completely relate to Amanda’s obsession! You can follow me on twitter @weenerberger and read my blog at markweenerberger.com!
Happy holidays!”
We’re taking submissions up until Christmas Day. You can email them to Amanda AT Sometimesdaily DOT com. The best submissions will be featured Dec 28-Jan 1 on Sometimesdaily.com and FLO TV - Live Mobile TV. Ping me with any questions! Happy December. Hope this stressful time of year is not stressing you out too much!
“A camera crew, fronted by an Internet news correspondent named Amanda Congdon, was corralling passersby for man-on-the-street interviews about their views on swine flu. I volunteered myself as an interview subject. A few days later, I found my interview on the Sometimesdaily.com site, Venice Beach in the background. It was time to get out of LA.”
You can check out the full article here.
Thanks to Evan Ratliff for the shout out! We loved playing a part in your awesome experiment!
I announced a contest on twitter & facebook today to win a #freeptv. 140 characters doesn’t really suffice when explaining the contest, so I thought I’d move over to tumblr.
What’s a PTV? It’s a handy little personal television that you can use on the go. Along with Sometimesdaily episodes you’ll get tons of familiar TV channels and lots of great live entertainment too. You can find out all the details about the product here. The device comes with a free 6 month contract, so that’s taken care of.
Anyone in the USA can win. All you have to do is tweet me or leave a tweet-sized comment on my facebook wall saying why you think you should win a PTV, tag it with #freeptv and the person with the most creative answer wins the device! Pretty simple, right? You can tweet as many answers as you want to maximize your chance of winning. I will mail you the PTV if you cannot pick it up in person at the Streaming Media West Mixer on Tuesday, November 17 at 7pm in San Jose. Of course, I’d prefer to see you there so we can finally hang out IRL! ;) The mixer is free and there’s an open bar! I hope you will join me. Thanks to FLO TV and Streaming Media West for making this contest possible.