Getting Interactive for Mesh
Okay...after going down a few routes with my interactive presentation for Mesh (almost everything I put together wouldn't be scalable to a 300 person audience for 45 minutes and would be more mayhem than fun), I've decided to do a game show where audience members are chosen to be on the stage and the rest of the audience yells out answers and helps along. Yes, it will still be mayhem, but of the fun sort.
Prizes will be given (but not cars...unless you want to sponsor cool stuff? Hmmmm? Robert (Xbox)? Chad (Yahoo Schwag)? Anyone else?). More details to come, but I'll save the juicy details up to the actual unveiling at Mesh.
I'd love suggestions either via email (horsepigcow at gmail), the pinko mailing list (pinkomarketing at googlegroups), the wiki or the comments below. Your ideas are way better than mine.
4 Comments:
Okay, so it's not an Xbox... but I'd be happy to donate some fresh copies of CheapEats Toronto for your game show extravaganza.
why don't people who work in marketing for technical companies try to learn a little bit about programming?
it really does hurt companies -- the debacle with microsoft slapping ".NET" on all their products, including ones that had no managed code, and the fact that you still can't find a quick, clear explanation of what the hell .NET is on microsoft.com is come to my mind as good examples of why this is important. continuing with the microsoft example, no one who has written a non-trivial program in C would believe the dumb story that was floating around about 60% of windows being rewritten.
you should learn python or ruby. if programmers should learn about human factors/interface design and marketing, marketers and designers should learn the joys of hacking.
I totally miss Rod Roddy. He was a great announcer. And no I'm not kidding. This is the PoR announcer I grew up with. That picture pulls on the ol' heart strings.
Anyhow, see you at Mesh.
@anonymous.
I haven't learnt Python or Ruby...yet. But I did take a course in Drupal (to counteract .net, of course...with that bloated Microsoft CMS). I also do UI...CSS...HTML. I advocate for Microformats...I am trying to learn web standards guidelines....
I also, alongside my partner-in-crime, FactoryJoe, help organize and participate in Mashpits, days of hacking fabulousness. Mostly I do the UI, but I work with developers and learn what can and can't be done.
Is this a good start? Believe me, I'm advocating to a world of programming marketers and community driven programmers. It's very important.
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