Voting ends on August 29, but in the remaining hours you have a shot of sending several top bloggers, editors and managers to SXSW Interactive 2009. Here's a look at the two proposed panels:
The Organic Audience: Growing a Fanbase by Communicating
Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TUAW, Cinematical and other Weblogs properties didn't create a fan base with ad campaigns, viral marketing or sleazy SEO. We did it by putting out the best content, having integrity and (most of all) keeping the conversation going. Hear the best and worst of those conversations.
Managing Virtual Teams: Choreography of Bits
Is your team distributed around the world? At Weblogs, Inc. we built a team of freelancers from around the globe. The daily coordination and management of over 500 bloggers on various platforms in different timezones is a challenge, but one the tools of the internet were made to tackle. Learn how we keep the gears oiled and how you can work in an increasingly distributed universe of talent.
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1. In the Luxist item on the drop in value of Buckingham Palace, one picture shows members of the Foot Guards wearing bearskin hats. The picture is captioned, however: "Beefeaters." These guards are most definitely NOT Beefeaters, who are the ceremonial guards usually seen at the Tower of London, where they function as tour guides.. The Beefeaters were a blue uniform with red piping, the design very similar to that of the true Yeomen of the Guard, who are armed with pikes (spears with an axe-head); on formal occasion, the Yeomen of the Guard -- who date to 1485 -- wear a red-andyellow uniform from the time of Henry VII, who created the regiment. But the guards in the picture on Luxist are members of one of the regiments of Foot Guards, most of whom carry semi-automatic rifles with bayonets. These Foot Guards -- members of five regiments: Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards Welsh Guards andIrish Guards -- all wear the bearskin hat; their uniforms have slightly varying markings such as plumes of different colors worn on different sides of the bearskin, and the placement of and markings on the buttons down the center of the red tunic. In addition to the Foot Guards are the the Household Cavalry, of two regiments: the Life Guards -- the mounted guards with bright steels breastplates over red tunics, and white britches long white plumes standing atop their bright steel helmets; and the Blues and Royals, who wear blue tunics, and have red plumes. They also wears the bright steel breastplate and helmet. At one time, there were more regiments, but they were merged over the years. One the monarch's official birthday, there is a full Trooping of the Guard -- all five Foot Guard and both mounted Guards.
Posted at 6:30PM on Jul 8th 2009 by bertramworkum