Deus Ex Machinatio

Beyond the Brunette, New and Improved!

If you missed my talk at SXSW this year, I've got great news for you -- the full audio of the talk is now online, so I called in a favor from the diversely talented Jim Gramze and arranged for him to magically transform the slides and video into one beautifully orchestrated whole. Behold:

ARGs and Women: Moving Beyond the Hot Brunette from Andrea A. Phillips on Vimeo.

It's almost as good as being there! Except you won't be able to see my rockin' steampunk gloves this way. Too bad for you. 

If you're in the market for something a bit more low-key than this, you can also just listen to the audio, available from SXSW, and the original Keynote slides plus my notes are still on Slideshare. 

I'm really proud of how the talk went, and am always happy to take the conversation further. Let me know what you think!

Beyond the Brunette Online

I've put my slides up from SXSWi 2010 for my talk, ARGs and Women: Moving Beyond the Hot Brunette. I'm not embedding it here, however, because the slides are pretty worthless without my presentation notes, and I haven't worked out a way to get show the slides to display in the way I'd prefer. It's harder than it needs to be because I have embedded video, and Keynote's cutting off a bunch of pie charts when I export to PDF. Grrr. At any rate, I highly recommend you be sure to click on the "Notes on slide 1" tab before you start going through the show.

I do believe SXSW is planning to put up the audio of my actual talk at some point, and when that happens I'll try to put the slides and audio together in a single, perfect show. Until then, we'll all have to settle.

Meet Me in Austin!

My bags are packed, my electronics are charging, and tomorrow I'm a-gettin' on a plane heading to SXSWi! The excitement is killing me! Also inducing me to use an unseemly number of exclamation points!!! 

If you'll be in Austin, too, please do let me know so I don't miss you. I suspect the best way to reach me is via @ or DM on Twitter. (I'm Andrhia.) And of course I would be delighted to have a nice, rowdy cheering section for my talk on Saturday morning, ARGs and Women: Moving Beyond the Hot Brunette. Please do come and cheer me on.

See you soon!

The SXSWi Hustle

As you may know, I'll be at SXSW this year (and as a speaker, no less!) So I guess it's time to make arrangements to meet up for coffee or lunch or dinner or drinks with all of you magnificent people I don't see often enough, or don't see at all. I'll be officially on the prowl for projects running late this spring and through the summer, so if you have any or know of any, do keep me in mind. That said, seeing old friends and making new ones is always a pleasure all on its own, and I want to meet all of you regardless!

If you'd like to meet up with me at SXSW, please do reach out so we can start making plans. I'm Andrhia on Twitter, or you can drop me email. 

On a related note... I've never been to SXSW before, so if you have advice for me on how to get around town or where to go for lunch or what to wear or what to pack in my bag -- anything, really -- I am all ears. Giant, giant, slightly nervous ears.