Oh dear, it’s March! Travel time, project updates, and more.
We’ve been ever so neglectful of our website as we’ve been heads down working from our new Spadina and Richmond HQ. We did have the chance to skip out of the office last Tuesday to share Kipu with the Democamp crowd, which was a blast.
And on the Kipu front, we’ve got a Kipu iPhone app in development along with another round of updates to the Web app before we take it public. You’ll surely be seeing a lot more from Kipu this summer!
And all of this as we gear up for another excursion to SXSW, this time with Matt and Gabriel joining me. Though, sadly, for a much shorter period of time than in previous years when I had the chance to stay for music, with stops in San Fran, New Orleans and Chicago. But I’ll be sure to cram in as much chaos as possible into this year’s SXSW trip as I’ll be speaking with Jon Lax about value pricing at Monday the 14th’s Abolish the Hourly, DJing on the 12th at the Maple Leaf Digital Lounge and (hopefully!) again on the 13th.
And all the while we’ve been tackling a number of other great client projects which should start to see the light of day soon.
*phew*
And now back to work!
SXSW panel picker in full swing, round 2. Last day to vote!
Today is the last day for SXSW 2011 panel picker voting. Make sure you find those panels that matter to you and give them some love so you can enjoy your SXSW. Whether our Abolish the Hourly value pricing presentation, these fine selections from last week, or the new gems we’ve spotted in the past week highlighted below, we’re sure you’ll find some panels that interest you.
SXSW 2011 panel picker voting in full swing.
We in the interactive industry are in the throws of deciding SXSW 2011 panels and presentations with panel picker voting in full swing. I found much to complain about last year after wandering into far too many crap sessions so I’m taking the initiative to help improve the quality by voting heartily, pitching our own presentation (a collaborative effort with Jon Lax that I believe is very important for the creative industry), and I’ve compiled a list of standout sessions for your perusal. Take a look and please take the time to vote for the sessions that interest you.
Our Value Pricing deck from last week’s NXNE Interactive panel.
Last week we had the pleasure of joining Sam Ladner, Jon Lax and our moderator Simon Conlin on a NXNE panel discussion about value pricing. Abolish The Hourly was a well attended session and, from on stage, appeared to be capture the audience. I suppose any time you challenge the status quo, people take notice. But this topic is really nothing new, though it may be somewhat foreign to the creative services industry.
Kipu question: How important is it when you’re tracking time to be able to define multiple roles per person so that you may bill each of their roles at a different rate?
A one question survey about supporting multiple billing rates per person so you can variably bill clients based on the type of task you completed.
Please fill out the Google survey, s’il vous plais.
It’s about time! A presentation on time tracking and work life balance.
Here’s our slide deck from IgniteTO on how finding daily patterns in where we spend our time can help us win back our lives. The Ignite format is 20 slides in 5 minutes, so you have 15 seconds with each slide before it automatically transitions. Here I’ve loaded the slide deck in a format that let’s you transition with a click so you can spent as much time with each slide so you don’t have to experience the Ignite stress. I’ve also included a more polished script than the largely ad libbed one that was done live. But I promise I did get these points in within my 5 minutes limit. And I only said, “I’ll just wait for the next slide…” once.
b5media ad sales slide deck.
We’ve previously talked about the b5media Ad Sales Brochure. What we want to share now is the companion slide deck. We have a lot of fun building slide decks because we’re focused solely on supporting the speaker. This means we want to create a healthy backdrop for them to shine against and help guide the conversation that they’ll be engaging in with their listeners.
We’ve all seen slide decks where you’ve got an abundance of illegible bullet points or tiny little charts. None of this helps the audience or the speaker relate their story effectively. It generally distracts from the conversation with the speaker pointing to things that no one can read and the audience focusing on the slide instead of the story. Engagement fail.
