With over 2,000 proposed panels from which a mere 300 will be culled, there’s no shortage of content for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Panels featuring Happy Cog personnel include the juicy candidates listed below. Follow the links to vote for your favorites. (Voting for a panel increases the likelihood that it may actually get presented.)

Web Fonts: The Time Has Come

After fifteen years of contenting ourselves with system fonts, or image type, the planets are now in line for getting real fonts on the web. Some solutions are already working, and a cross-platform standard is emerging. Here web designer and type designers mix it up on how the font hurdles is finally being leapt. Moderator: Roger Black. Panelists: Font Bureau’s David Berlow, Stephen Coles (new.typographica.org), Bert Bos (CSS), Happy Cog’s Jeffrey Zeldman.

We F*cked Up. Now what? Exploring Failure, Together.

Projects fall apart. We often blame the client, the politics and the personalities. But when it happens, there is a tremendous opportunity to grow as a professional and as a person. Candidly recounting past catastrophes, the panelists explore the emotional experience of project implosion and the silver lining that emerges. Moderator: Happy Cog’s Kevin Hoffman. With Greg Hoy, President of Happy Cog East, Greg Storey, President of Happy Cog West, and Tracey Halvorsen, Principal & Creative Director of FastSpot.

New Publishing and Web Content

What is content strategy? How can publishers harness the energy and talent of the online community? Explore the creative, strategic, and marketing challenges of traditional and new publishing. Moderator: Happy Cog’s Jeffrey Zeldman. Panel: book and new media publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton; designer, writer, and W.W. Norton creative director Mandy Brown; novelist, web geek, and Harper’s editor Paul Ford; and writer, editor, and Happy Cog content strategist Erin Kissane.

ExpressionEngine 2.0: Total Domination!

ExpressionEngine is growing in popularity and with the release of 2.0, it’s power has expanded to the stratosphere. Powering great websites such as Change.gov, A List Apart, and Campaign Monitor, it represents an amazing way to build websites and publish content. Join us as 5 experts give best practices from a beginner front-end level up to extension developer supreme. Moderator: Kenny Meyers, Happy Magic Fun Time. Panelists: Happy Cog’s Brian Warren, Happy Cog’s Ryan Irelan, Happy Cog’s Mark Huot and Happy Cog’s Jenn Lukas.

Client Whisperers: Understanding Clients and Selling Web Design

Is there a formula for success? Is there such a thing as a good client? How can you avoid problem clients? Gain insight from the people on the front lines of some of the best known web shops. Learn from their stories the best way to find, manage and love great clients. Moderator: Happy Cog’s Robert Jolly. Carl Smith, President of nGen Works (co-presenter)

Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Weight

As we become increasingly connected and our lifestyles trend toward the sedentary, our waistlines are growing. Fitness is elusive. Hear from your colleagues about their trials and tribulations around maintaining health while balancing creative work, family, and career development. Moderator: Happy Cog’s Robert Jolly.

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8 Responses to “Cogs at South-by”

1. 
   Kenny Meyers said on 24 August 2009 at 4:49 pm:

   While I admit, I didn’t expect to be taking on a panel of Coggers for the EE panel, that changed very quickly before my eyes in the past few months. Thanks for the plug good sir!

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 24 August 2009 at 6:43 pm:

   I didn’t expect to be taking on a panel of Coggers for the EE panel

   Funny the way that worked out!

3. News Feeds - Welkom op www.ooldervesteherten.nl said on 26 August 2009 at 12:55 am:

   [...] Cogs at South-by With over 2,000 proposed panels from which a mere 300 will be culled, there’s no shortage of content for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Panels featuring Happy Cog personnel include the juicy candidates listed below. Follow the links to vote for your favorites. (Voting for a panel increases the likelihood that it [...] [...]

4. 
   Geoff Barnes said on 26 August 2009 at 8:31 am:

   Don’t forget, “So This Guy Walks Into His Own Story,” featuring Chris Cashdollar and Kevin Hoffman as well. http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2770

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 26 August 2009 at 11:53 am:

   @Geoff Barnes:

   I did not know that. Thanks.

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   Darcy said on 31 August 2009 at 6:58 am:

   I agree with that Jeffrey , this is very amazing, It changed so fast great work web designers.

   SEO Company

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   Leroy Lyne said on 19 September 2009 at 1:56 pm:

   Thanks for the Expression Engine info.
   I my site feature in the showcase there, it’s probably still there.

   Learning Expression Engine has been the best thing, I ever done in my life. Having bought all of zeldman’s book, and all the css materials I could find for years, I practiced for no reason at all but for the fact that I loved designing websites. Then I read a book, can’t remembers name, Simon Collision gloated about EE. It was tough going at first and now I’m very efficient with EE in addition to having expert skills in CSS. Thanks Jeffery and all the standards originals. Now with EE 2.0 looming, I’m very excited.

   Kids

8. 
   handbags said on 6 January 2010 at 2:39 am:

   I did try to get him to wrap up his answers sometimes in the interest of getting as much as possible into the hour (again if I was a professional radio person I’d know how to do that with more savvy). I think (I’m sure Jeffrey gets this) it will be easier for me to interview people I don’t very well or at all. I may have made the mistake of trying to steer things too much in the direction of the general listener, too.

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