You might remember that a few weeks ago we offered to make trillionaires of the people who voted for and left the best comments on our SXSW panel proposals. Well. The voting is now closed so thanks to everyone who supported us – we really appreciate your help. We don’t know if any of our panels have got in yet (the schedule is announced in October) but more importantly the intense judging has finished at Team Rubber and we can confirm the following trillionaires:
For her support for Open Source Government: Can Collaborative Methods Save Democracy Nema El-Nahas with her comment “very interesting subject – distributed responsibility – power in the netwroks !!!! hope this panel sessions gets through “. (OK so it was the only comment on that one, but nice one Nema!).
For her support of Nooks & Grannies: Exploring Older Niches Online Babette Pepaj with her comment “Very interesting topic – we deal with an older crowd daily. I think the key is customer support. They expect more from publishers and appreciate when sites are less about the techie stuff and more about the genuine connections they can make. They are also a heck of a lot more forgiving when it comes to site quirks so make sure you take care of them.. they will always come back, unlike the younger more fickle crowd.”
And for his support of Taking Traditional Narrative Online: Extending Film Worlds Interactively Kevin Chamberlain for his comment “Sounds very very interesting. Would you be interested in coming along to the Appreciative Creativity group at The Pierian Centre?”.
We’re not sure what the Pierian Centre is yet, or what Appreciative Creativity is, but it sounds very nice and we look forward to finding out over a pint or 67,500 when Kevin takes us out on his Zimbabwean Dollar winnings.
Congrats also go to Mike Bennett and Clare Reddington for getting their panels picked for the hotlist. Nice work!
