Category: sxsw
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My posts from South by Southwest 2011
A collection of posts from my fifth year at South By Southwest as posted at the Social Studies blog. Be sure to come find me! SXSW: Unleashing Employees: Empower Innovation from the Ground Up SXSW: How Farmers Get Serious Business Done With Mobile SXSW: Demystifying Online Privacy and Empowering the…
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SXSW Report: Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities
My new post on Social Studies: Tara Hunt, from Intuit, spoke on the topic of how people interact and exchange information in online communities: through social capital, or as Cory Doctorow calls it, < a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie”>Whuffie</a>. Hunt gave a thorough deep dive into the importance of online communities – both…