The SXSW (for the uninitiated, it’s pronounced ‘South by Southwest’) Film, Music and Interactive Festival has taken over Austin, Texas, in case you couldn’t tell from your Twitter feed. Last year saw plenty of online voting (and social media pimping) to determine what panels would appear at this year’s event. More than a few potential topics related to church marketing and a few actually made it to this year’s event.
Here’s a quick rundown of church marketing at SXSW:
- Technology for Results Not Profit with Terry Storch and Bobby Gruenewald of LifeChurch.tv.
- A Conversation about Social Change Through Social Media with Mark Horvath of InvisiblePeople.tv.
- CSS Framework Shootout with Nathan Smith of Fellowship Technologies (among others).
- In addition, Mark Horvath is also hosting an interview series at the Beacon which will air live online by WhatGives!? via UStream. He’s talking to big name social media types, like Chris Brogan and Beth Kanter, but on Sunday he’s talking with Terry Storch and Tony Steward of LifeChurch.tv. You can post questions for the churchy guys (or anyone Mark is interviewing).
- Finally, one of the CFCC regional network coordinators, Vince Marotte, is asking over at the ChurchCrunch blog about a SXSW get-together.
- Did we miss anything? Hit us up in the comments
There’s plenty to learn at SXSW, church related or not. If you’re a lucky duck and lounging at SXSW, be sure to show some love to the church marketing related festivities. The rest of us can leap for your Twitter and UStream scraps.
