StyleDev - See What I See

Back in ‘09 if you wanted to rate a panel you just logged in to my.sxsw.com and filled out the survey for that panel. The down side was you had a limited time after the panel to do it. So I thought this year they would open it up so you could review the panel’s you attended anytime after.

That is not the case this year. Instead they scrapped the whole review system in favor of PRINTING thousands of pieces of paper or for your convenience you can e-mail your survey in. WTF!!!

I have spoken to quite a few staff volunteers and they say that pretty much no one is filling out the pieces of paper and you can see them litter the halls and rooms. One volunteer said the reason for this is because the staff of SXSW are having a hard time with the number of people at SXSW? Huh? How is going from digital review to paper review make any sense if growth is the problem?

SXSW is huge on technology, hence the Interactive portion dedicated to the future of the web and they think printing massive amounts of paper is better?

Not to mention that you can not find a single blueprint of the ballrooms on the SXSW website. Or that the iphone app freezes every other minute sometimes to the point where you just have to exit it.

Come on SXSW, recruit some of the attendees and get your shit together!