Please give a thumbs-up to the GameChangers panel proposal for South-By-Southwest Interactive 2010. The icon below is your link to the voting apparatus. Polls have been open for over a week, and we’ve been campaigning about as hard as Fred Thompson did for President. In fact, until now we haven’t even come out of the air conditioned comfort of the campaign motor home to shake anyone’s hand. (NOTE: VOTING IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL WHO THUMBS-UPPED!)
Because this is a campaign, we need planks in our platform. Damn the polls, let’s go with these, composed, in Lincoln-en-route-to-Gettysburg fashion, on the back of a cocktail napkin after a couple of mojitos at Casito del Campo:
- Think of the GameChangers panel as being one less panel on how to monetize social networks that you’ll be asked to attend.
- People in the audience who’ve had improv experience will be asked to step forward and demonstrate GameChangers exercises and principles. This will keep things lively.
- You will learn about something that is not “a new application to improve web-based interactions.”
- You will learn why the most effective brand narratives are a product of continual improvisation.
- You will learn how biological evolution is a result of improvisation.
- You will learn about the Godmother of Improvisation, how comedians hijacked her techniques in 1958, and have been holding them for ransom ever since. Until now.
- You’ll learn why TRON is one of the most successful motion pictures ever made.
- You’ll learn why you don’t necessarily need technology to augment your reality.
- We will have musical accompaniment. Improvised, of course.
- We are going to stage at least one unrehearsed, never-before-attempted, improvised scene that involves the entire audience, which could be great, or it could be an absolute disaster, and you won’t want to miss the drama of that.
You have until Sept. 4 to register on the SXSW website and vote. Don’t think about it, do it! Now! Go! Here’s the link:
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