Beaconfire will be at SXSW (with your help!)
Posted Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm by Ali Cherry (11 posts)
When a couple of Beaconfire folks got back from South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2008, we were talking about the minimal representation of nonprofit organizations and pondered, why can’t nonprofits “celebrate the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies” too? Well we put our creative heads together about what we could do about it and came up with, what we think, is a really cool way to showcase some of the ways nonprofits can push the envelope to engage a wider, more active audience online. Now, we just need you to help us make it happen by voting (and commenting) on the SXSW panel picker!
Three teams. Two days. One special ingredient.
THIS is Iron Chef America…Battle Non profit.
Our nimble Chairwoman, the incomparable Beth Kanter, will bring together the best of the best for this epic battle at the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive Festival (March 13-17th). Each team of 3 web experts, chosen from the leaders in the non profit marketing and social media sector (including Beaconfire and Free Range Studios), will meet in the heat of Austin to offer one small deserving non profit organization a delectable 3 course meal featuring: a tasty new homepage, a well-seasoned fundraising campaign, and a perfectly balanced social networking & marketing plan.
We need your help to get there: vote for us on SXSW’s 2009 conference panel picker! Layered with explosive technologies, unique concepts and best practices like you’ve never tasted before, this will be a battle for the ages!
Before South by Southwest, the three teams, each consisting of a designer, a marketing consultant and a social networking guru from different companies, will have 48 hours to collaborate and produce the final “Dishes”, and document the experience. In Austin, at the SXSW panel session, each team will serve their final “menu” to the client and the panel audience, who will vote in real time according to the following categories: unique design & visual concepts, out-of-the box strategic thinking, and the best use of social networking technologies to support the goals of the “special ingredient.”
Who will prevail and change the future for one lucky organization? It’s up to YOU. Vote for us now so that we can whip up this meal and then join us at SXSW and vote for the best team!
