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NXNE Interactive: Oliver El-Khatib

One of the highlights of watching the Raptors’ playoff run was seeing Drake courtside, cheering on the hometown heroes and occasionally lint rolling his pants. But even beyond the world of organized sport, Drizzy’s undeniably a huge supporter of Toronto and, accompanied by the OVO brand, has helped to grow and shape this city on the national and global scale.

Behind Drake is a team of people making sure it all runs smoothly. This is where Oliver El-Khatib comes in. He’s Drake’s co-manager and is also the founder and creative director of OVO. His work has had a huge impact on our city’s public image and he’s also hugely involved in mentoring kids.

For NXNE Interactive, El-Khatib is making a rare public appearance to give a keynote address. He’ll share insight on the music industry, the development of the OVO brand, and the importance of championing Toronto. 

Specific scheduling details still to be announced, but whether you’re a Drake fan, Toronto supporter, or just interested in general brand/creative development – trust us when we say you’re not going to want to miss this. 

NXNE Interactive Badges are available here.

Photo by Zach Gold

NXNE Interactive: Oliver El-Khatib was originally published on NXNE

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Interactive News: Marc Maron, Paul Rosenberg & Yoni Bloch

We’ve already announced plenty of keynote speakers, presenters, and panelists set for NXNE Interactive 2014. Full scheduling details are on the way, but for now here’s a brief roundup on just a few people headed to the festival. Below, prep yourself some water cooler talk and familiarize yourself with some of the faces you’ll see this year & topics to be discussed.

NXNE Interactive badges are available here.

Marc Maron

What do driving in Los Angeles, electronic cigarettes, and stand up comedy have in common? They’re all discussed in these online audio clips between Marc Maron and Lewis Black. What a coincidence. You can hear these clips over on IFC.

Paul Rosenberg

When you’re leaving a message with Eminem, prepare to have your voicemail immortalized forever. We’re pretty sure Paul Rosenberg is well aware of this fact, so him being heard on “The Monster Explained” is likely no surprise.

Yoni Bloch

You might not be entirely familiar with the name Yoni Bloch, but you probably (hopefully) paid attention last year when Bob Dylan finally released a video for “Like a Rolling Stone.” It was worth the wait, and you can thank Bloch and his band – they’re behind Interlude, the start-up that made the video possible (a video that’s been watched by more than 70 million people.) Watch his interview on the platform and interactive video with Bloomberg below.

Interactive News: Marc Maron, Paul Rosenberg & Yoni Bloch was originally published on NXNE

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Interactive Badge Sale

NXNE Interactive is shaping up to be a big one — so we want to give you big savings on your ticket to see conferences, panels, discussions, and keynote addresses.

For a limited time, Interactive Badges are on sale for $199.

It’s like we’ve hopped in a time machine and gone back a couple of months: back to the innocent, cheap days of when Interactive badges were just $199. This is good news as a whole, because it means you save $51 and get to check out all the NXNE Interactive sessions and keynotes you can possibly handle.

But you’re probably thinking: What’s the catch, NXNE? Why are you being so nice to me? Well, we assure you there’s no catch — we just want you to be there. Our niceness only extends to a point, however, so make sure you buy your badge by Wednesday, March 12th. After that, we go back to being grumpy and it’s back up to regular pricing.

For more information on how NXNE Badges and Wristbands work – and to take advantage of this deal – head to our tickets page.

Still have a question on how it all works? Check out our FAQs and feel free to ask away on Twitter.

Interactive Badge Sale was originally published on NXNE

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News: Marc Maron & Suroosh Alvi

If you missed out on our Interactive announcement amongst all the SXSW chatter, thanks to the magic of the internet you can catch up on the news over here.

Two people we’re particularly excited for? Marc Maron and Suroosh Alvi.

Marc Maron’s half-hour IFC series (the appropriately titled Maron) recently got its second season premiere date – you can tune in May 8th at 10 pm. TV Equals reports that the season’s guest stars will include Johnny Knoxville, Ray Romano, David Cross, Paul Feig, Conan O’Brien, and more. Catch up by watching the first season on Netflix now, then see him without a pesky TV screen in the way at NXNE Interactive this June.

We’re also wishing a safe trip to VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi. Alvi’s headed to Afghanistan for his next assignment where he’ll investigate the war on drugs and the war’s impact on Iran. The Toronto Star details Alvi’s trip and the VICE brand over here.

It’s going to be a busy June. While you stock up on sleep (trust us, you’re going to want to stock up on sleep,) make sure to get your hands on the NXNE Interactive wristband. Best news about that? It’s on sale right now so you can hit the conferences, panels, and keynotes without hitting your credit limit. The deal’s almost over though, so get it while the getting’s good over here.

News: Marc Maron & Suroosh Alvi was originally published on NXNE

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NXNE Interactive: Pitching to new clients

Here are some more zeeBigBang insider tips from last week's NXNE Interactive panels.

Knowing how to pitch to new clients is essential to success in the arts and entertainment industries. Daniel Schutzsmith, CEO of Mark & Phil, offered this useful advice to bring your pitches to life at Strategies for Pitching New Clients.

Direct Pitching:

Presentations: When doing presentations follow the 10/20/30 rule. 10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 + font.

Format: Share your pitch in a variety of different ways. Powerpoint, PDF, HTML and paper.

No Sales Speak:Your tone in your proposal needs to reflect your brand. The more sales speak you use, the less likely you'll get the client.

Don't shortcut:Be thorough, keep it straight. Stay humble when pitching to new clients.

            Indirect Pitching:

Give away your work: No one wants to work for free, but when you start out if you do good quality work for free, you will get more work.

Use Twitter and LinkedIn: Find the people you want to work with. Use it as a business directory.

Be personal: Write notes. Make your work wearable and send potential clients things like T-shirts. They will remember you. 

Stay Consistent: Make time for pitching. Again, no sales speak.

zeeBigBang’s takeaway: Pitching is planned - whether it's direct or indirect.

 Join the new world of arts & entertainment and do business online. Sign up now on zeeBigBang.com

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What a week! Finally recovering from the NXNE/ MMVA week of madness. Check out some of my NXNE highlights on the Out Is Through blog! Had a great time checking out bands like A Place To Bury Strangers, Army Girls, and Goose Hut. The highlight probably came on Saturday though with The Bright Light Social Hour at the Gladstone. So much fun! Saturday highlights coming soon...

Thursday Highlights

Friday Highlights

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NXNEi: North by Northeast Interactive Festival

This past week we had the great pleasure of attending the North by Northeast Interactive (NXNEi) festival in Toronto.  It's kind of a smaller, more intimate (and more Canadian!) spin on the world famous South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival.

It's kind of ironic given that we are working on a largely pictorial project - creating the first ever magazine about young adult cancer survivors and fighters BY young adult cancer survivors and fighters - that we have not been taking many photos of the events we have been attending.  We will take more photos!!  :)

Anyway... we here at These Are My Scars are so excited about the future after an amazing conference this week.  Here are a few of the highlights:

We originally planned to attend a workshop on social media strategy, but it was sold out.  This was fate.. and a very good thing!  Instead, we attended, "Marketing for the Shy Creative Type" and it was absolutely incredible!  We learned sooo much from Daniel Schutzsmith (@schutzsmith) of Mark & Phil that our heads are still spinning!   Later on in the week, we had an epiphany and have already begun devising a cool campaign to help bring together many more young adult cancer survivors and fighters and build a strong global community.  We want to credit Daniel with helping to spark our creativity and get us thinking about other approaches we can take to find and connect people.  

I learned a lot about mobile from a session called "Content is King, but Transactions are Everything..."  Afterwards Tal chatted with the awesome Marlon Rodrigues (@marlonrodrigues) and we look forward to connecting with him in the future to talk more about 'Scars' and how we can leverage mobile to spread the word!  

After the great panel discussion at "Beyond Media Queries: Responsive Design and Cross-Device Thinking" Tal had the great pleasure of meeting Rick Mason (@egnaro).  Rick has worn many, many hats at NOW magazine and at FITC.  Hard to imagine anyone with more insight about how we the people can curate and publish multimedia content both online and in print as simply and efficiently as possible.  We would like to take Rick and his team out for some beverages and discussion our passions in the near future.  We have so much to learn from them!

There were many more excellent presentations!  These are just a few of the ones that we are most excited about from this past week.  We have so many ideas we want to share with you!