Create Chaos combines the best of ten individual conferences–The Creative Suite Conference, The Pixel Conference, The Vector Conference, The Web Design Conference, ASMP Fall Photo Summit, Motion Graphics Festival (MGFest), Create Chaos Job Fair, Printing, Paper and Packaging Design Conference, STASH Theatre, and the Create Awards Gallery–into one action-packed week at a single price. Whether you’re into building websites, creating animated characters, designing cereal boxes, or if you just want figure out a better way to run and market your business, there is something for nearly everyone in today’s creative fields here. The 2008 show was held at the world’s largest Marriott and featured speakers and delegates from all over the world.
Tim Frick gave presentations on content management systems and video workflows for the web as part of The Web Design Conference. You can check out PDFs of each presentation here:
Today my heart hangs heavy in my chest and has for the last week. My friend Ron Ziebarth took his own life and has left many of us wandering around in a daze obsessing over how we could have prevented it. Truth is, I don’t think anyone could have. He seemed pretty determined. Knowing that doesn’t make it hurt any less though.
Ron and his brother Don were two sides of the same very popular coin. They completed each other and I think I can safely say Ron was never the same after Don passed away in 1992. Below is a video I put together with help from my friends at Mightybytes for Ron’s memorial service. It uses the same song played at Don’s memorial service. May they both rest in peace. Their departure leaves a large vacuum in the heart and soul of Chicago and an emptiness in my life that won’t soon be filled.
The panel, titled 30 Tips in 60 Minutes, will focus on tips regarding digital/online marketing tools and strategies that help to best enhance business. I have been asked to discuss blogging, social media and other techniques Mightybytes has used to increase site traffic, search engine results and business revenue. The panel will be moderated by my good pal Stacy Jones, Marketing Director at Shakespeare Squared and will also feature Patrick Riley, Director of Sales and Marketing for Rand McNally, Beau Clark, VP of Product Management for Follett Digital Resources, and Gladys Rosa-Mendoza, Information Architect at Rosa & Wesley, Inc.
The seminar is open to AEP members and non-members with a different pricing structure. Full details can be found on the AEP site.
The folks at Isle Royale National Park sure could use some lessons on effective pricing strategies. I took my mother to America’s least used national park as a belated birthday present recently and was flabbergasted not only by how overpriced our visit was but by how many hidden surprise fees popped up around every corner as well. Granted, I understand that a visit to any national park is going to be an exercise in financial indulgence. Tourists are captive audiences at these places and the national parks do a great job of exploiting that fact. However, is the constant need to shell out cash hand over fist (much to the detriment of your vacation experience) really providing good customer service that will result in repeat business? I think not.
The fine folks over at Marketing Profs have published Five Tips for Harmonious Web Projects, an article I wrote based on content from Managing Interactive Media Projects. The article lists tips and project process suggestions from lessons I have learned while creating websites and interactive content for happy clients.
You will need a Marketing Profs account to view the article. A free trial is available on their site. Thanks Marketing Profs!
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