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SXSW

A lot of the folks I follow on Twitter are at SXSW Interactive as I blog this, and they’ve been tweeting up a storm over the past 24 hours. All the social media superstars are there, I think, along with a gaggle of microblogging groupies (and I mean that in the nicest way, for that is what I would be were I present). The best part — the SXSW music event — hasn’t even gotten started yet. Anyway, if you’re among the masses who are not at SXSW but want to follow along, but don’t want to sort through the Twitter clutter, here are a few resources:

  • The BFG Communications blog is doing a nice job of wrapping up the early sessions. BFG posted a summary of Forrester guru Charlene Li‘s presentation, Social Strategies for Revolutionaries, and linked to her presentation on SlideShare.
  • SXSW in pictures. If you’d rather look at a picture than read, ClickZ points to the work of Sunni Brown and Marilyn Martin, who “graphically record the proceedings – quickly, compellingly and more succinctly than many of the journalists or bloggers in the vast session rooms.” Cool stuff.
  • Coverage of today’s big event, an interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, which apparently turned truly interactive. Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) reports on the event, as does Mashable’s Kristen Nicole.
  • Perhaps some of the higher ed bloggers who went to the SXSW Higher Ed Web Meetup last Friday will also be posting. It would be nice to get a higher ed perspective on some of the discussion.

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Now playing: Various Artists – eMusic – Badlands – Day For Night
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Friday Five: sick day edition

Second sick day in a row. Bleh. But lucky for you, dear reader, for I’m blogging like a feverish, cranky, congested, Sudafed-popping, Vicks Vap-o-Rub-slathered mad man.

(Okay, maybe that Vap-o-Rub reference was TMI for y’all. Let’s move on.)

  1. Karine Joly celebrates three years of writing for University Business with her latest column about how colleges and universities are developing Facebook applications to better connect with students, alumni, prospective students, etc. On her College Web Editor blog, Karine is compiling a list of higher ed FB apps. If you’ve got one to add to the mix, get in touch with her.
  2. Twitterpacks is a cool way to meet fellow twits tweeters based on interest, communities of practice, or geography. It’s a wiki and simple to join. Discovered via Karine’s Friday list-o-links. Karine found it via Seth Meranda‘s post. If you tweet, you should sign up and run with the pack(s) of your choosing. (I always assumed Twitter users would be in flocks, but that would make too much sense.)
  3. DW offers a refreshing reminder that sometimes we learn the most from the students we work with. Thanks for that.
  4. 10 social media presentations — all posted on Slideshare and yours for the viewing. Looks like a good resource for social networking data. Via .edu Guru‘s Links of the Week (from last Friday).
  5. Phoenix rising. The University of Phoenix doesn’t even have a football team — or any sports team. But it does own the name on the football stadium where the New England Patriots and New York Giants will square off on Sunday for Super Bowl XLII. U of P spent $154 million in 2006 for the naming rights to the stadium. They hope to cash in on Sunday with a bevy of inquiries and the kind of national media exposure that money can’t buy only $154 million (plus a couple of Super Bowl ad spots) can buy. A drop in the bucket for the university’s owner, Apollo Group Inc., which generates annual revenues of nearly $3 billion. (Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education. A Chronicle staffer actually pitched this idea to me and suggested that “other colleges without athletics programs can apply the same strategy of advertising at major sports events to their advantage.” Somehow I doubt that many colleges without athletics programs invest as much in branding as Phoenix. But the story’s still worth a link.)

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Now playing: Spoon – You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
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