As I was finishing up another interview, I was introduced to Brandon Eley. I took a few minutes to get to know Brandon a little bit better and we ended up talking about what brought him to SXSWi and about his book The Online Marketing Inside Out (Online Marketing: Sitepoint).

Finally got the video small enough that we could get it up on the video server for y’all to watch. I had to compress it to such a point that it’s a bit grainy, but ironically, this audio is a little better than the audio recording that I posted earlier this week.
This video is from the 2010 South by Southwest Interactive panel discussion “Austin: Latino Internet Capital of the World.” Featured in the video are Cindy Casares, and Fidel Martinez from Guanabee.com and other local speakers. Watch the video, …

This video is from Darren Rowse’s presentation about his upcoming new book. The sites that Darren runs/ administers include Problogger, Digital Photography School and others.
I always knew Darren from Problogger, and was surprised to see that DPS is a larger blog by comparison.
Nuggets from the video:

Content – a blog needs content to get readers.
Provide useful content to your audience to keep them coming back
Have a clear idea of who your audience is
It’s OK to be embarrassed by writing content for beginners
Go back to the beginning and write content that solves …

Saturday afternoon session at SXSWi entitled “Austin Latino Internet Capital of the World.” It featured several local speakers as well as Cindy Casares and Fidel Martinez from Guanabee.com.
This is the audio from the session.
There is video from the session, but the video is proving to be a bear of an editing/ posting job. The hangup is in trying to get the video file size to be smaller than 500 MB for uploading etc. The video will be posted sometime soon!

Scott Allen sits down at the Marketing Latinos table and converses about the value and depth that social media habits has created.  Listen in as we digest the impact that this has had on the face to face interactions.

Check out the dogs at the Twitter Happy Hour (Thursday night).  Can you say CALIENTE!
My favorite quote from this video is:

That color doesn’t exist in nature

If you’re a guerrilla style videographer, like myself, and in the market for something totally portable and light weight for your camera – take a look at the X shot.
@tarynp gives us a demo of how the device works. In my opinion, it’s a really cool and nifty little device. Here’s a link to a similar product to the x-shot over on amazon in case you want to get one.

These two ladies have a conversation on brilliant marketing strategies and answered the question about how hotels should market to GEEK Girls. Check out what these two ladies had to say.

Scott Allen and Vicki Flaugher have a conversation about STRATEGY.  Here what Scott Allen has to say on the subject.

Chelsea came and joined Vicki Flougher and I at the MarketingLatinos table at the BATHH (Big A$$ Twitter Happy Hour) and introduced us to the “fist pound.”
Clever thinking!