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Austin Game Developers Conference 2007
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Posted by Taera Wednesday September 5 2007 at 8:39PM

Wow, long day!  Starting with a HIKE from the hotel to the con - yeah Stradden, great idea, let's park far away and walk! *looks at the empty parking all next to AGC* but it was well worth it.

Today I attended three community related panels: Building Bridges: How to Develop Social Networks as Part of COmmunityt Management, Community Management 101: Design, Maitenance, and Growth, and Identifying, Engaging and Empowering Community Influencers.  Long names, I know, but they were hugely fun and conveyed a lot of great information.

I guess it's a sign that our industry has good taste in CMs, I didn't meet a single person today that I didn't like, and many that I did.  Everyone had a great sense of humor - I think my favorite "joke" of the day was Alan Crosby (SOE)'s introduction: all the panelists introduced themselves and said why they were there, i.e. what interest they had in the topic at hand.  Alan's introduction was "Hello, I'm Alan Crosby from Sony Online Entertainment, and I'm here today because I didn't want to be there for the launch of Legends of Norrath."

I also had my first video interview with EVE Online, and it will be uploaded soon - it was hard not to laugh as skywisenight waved a sign with a giant "2" on it from behind the camera.  What does 2 mean?! 2 minutes left, apparently.

I've been trying all day to convince skywisenight to put a lightning bolt in the AGDC banner.  Someday, I'll win!

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