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Title:

Try Making Yourself More Interesting

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Brian Oberkirch, Small Good Thing
Description:
There are no cheat codes for community. No Charles Atlas shortcuts to make your pet project the one to rule them all. Want people to think you're awesome? Be awesome. This panel promises a bullshit-free look at how you might tune out the jibber jabber, tune in to those who matter, put your head down and make your online service a little bit more epic each day. We'll dissect Bike Hugger, Photojojo, Metafilter, and other examples of Web charm for what *you* can do. Today, and tomorrow. And the day after. Which is how you will become what you want to be.
Questions
Answered:
  1. How do I grow my online service?
  2. What marketing fu can I glean from killa sites like Metafilter & Photojojo?
  3. Can I do community stuff without seeming like a sell out?
  4. How do you actually iterate on a service?
  5. How do I build constant change into my product development process?
  6. How do I stand out in ways that have nothing to do with technology?
  7. What makes some sites great and others also rans?
  8. Why can't I just short cut the process with SEO hacks?
  9. Do I have to attract the attention of 'influentials'?
  10. If I build my service around happiness, what does that get me?
Panelists:
DL Byron (texturadesign.com), Amit Gupta (amitgupta.com), Brian Oberkirch (Small Good Thing)
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Advertising / Marketing
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Tony Haile
on 8/8/08
brian is the guru on this stuff. I can't wait!
Rob Farrow
on 10/8/08
Brian's discussions are always quite interesting and worthy of a panel.
Taylor Davidson
on 13/8/08
A great reminder to people with passions and the hope of sharing their passions with others.
Kami Huyse
on 17/8/08
Great topic Brian. Be awesome should be every company's mantra
christopher carfi
on 19/8/08
"There are no cheat codes for community." nice!
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on 30/8/08
Oh wow - this really sounds super. Looking forward to it!
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on 15/3/09
it is super
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on 8/6/09
I think i ll add this too, and more intresting view
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on 7/8/09
Brian!!! Man you are guru! I'll add this
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on 16/8/09
Good stuff Brian - looking forward to it.
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on 18/8/09
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Bookmark B
on 23/8/09
Making yourself interesting is good thing. Nevertheless, I won't try hard to make myself more and more interesting. I just love the way I am right now. Thanks for the article anyway.
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on 23/9/09
Great tips, very useful with my business.
Thank you.
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on 24/9/09
Its right you can´t cheat the community - If you genuinely want to enter into a market be the best, understand the minutest detail about it. Catalogue your discovery on the web - make friends by helping people genuinely.
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on 24/9/09
Community is a part of life. Participation is valuable and rewarding. If we ignore community then we ignore ourselves.
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Jason Alexander
on 7/10/09
Great! Can't wait to try some of these things on my site, hopefuly i'll see some nice community growth
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on 11/10/09
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on 11/10/09
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on 14/10/09
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on 19/10/09
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They is no short way to do marketing its very time consuming task
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on 26/10/09
Its right you can´t cheat the community - If you genuinely want to enter into a market be the best, understand the minutest detail about it. Catalogue your discovery on the web - make friends by helping people genuinely.
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"There are no cheat codes for community." What a line! Great stuff!
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on 28/10/09
Will there be more panels like this at future SXSW? i'd like to see something similar to this and will be attending next year.
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A great reminder to people with passions and the hope of sharing their passions with others.
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on 8/11/09
The caption says it all! Helpful indeed.
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One of the points I've made repeatedly about Web 2.0 is that it is the design of systems that get better the more people use them, and that over time, such systems have a natural tendency towards monopoly.
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