Brad Garland
CEO of @thegarlandgroup. I love people, their ideas, their businesses, their passions.

Website: http://futureofmoney.com
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The better access to information provided by new technologies is changing the way we do business, approach funding, and handle our profits and cash. The Future of Money and Technology will draw the best and brightest minds from the intersection of money and technology...

Its obvious that "business as usual" isnt working. Managers and leaders are asked to create strategies that will win market share, create lasting value, and drive profits for their organizations. Unfortunately, the tools in creating business solutions that work havent changed in more than 20 years -- until now. This session...

In June, U.S. Soccer will step into the spotlight as the 2010 FIFA World Cup is staged in South Africa. ussoccer.com, online communities and social media tools play an important role in U.S. Soccers efforts to grow the domestic passion around the worlds most popular sport. Hear from U.S. Soccers online...

Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds? This vibrant, moderated discussion will include representatives from Kiva, OptINnow, and 2 national...

The hype around social media has become deafening. Organizations are feeling pressured to "join the conversation or risk being irrelevant. However, a social business has to be designed from the ground up and the top down in order to achieve transformation which scales. Are we ready to move beyond lip service?...

Williams has co-founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, the now ubiquitous social media platform that hit its tipping-point at SXSW in 2007. In addition to his role as Director of the Havas Media Lab, Umair Haque founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique...

Imagine a work environment where people do whatever they want whenever they want as long as the work gets done. At midnight or 3am or on Sunday. Whenever and wherever. Its called a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), and companies around the world are starting to adopt the ROWE philosophy.

Why does business have to so complicated? Wheres the checklist for all this? What about the IRS? Learn how to create a business, choose a structure, and figure out which expenses are deductible, all specifically targeted for interactive and new media creators, presented by someone who has been there.

Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives--treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe future uses of new media in public health.

The user-generated, interconnected Social Web is ripe for the plucking by criminals and other malicious users. Well demonstrate how psychology and user experience have as much to do with security as coding and sysadmin skills, and how to apply all of them to protect your users.

A myriad of user experience deliverables are available to the UXD practitioner: sitemaps, interaction diagrams, wireframes, storyboards, and much more. But which are most effective for capturing the design concept, process, and vision? We survey preferred sets of deliverables and give pointers for choosing yours.

The SXSW Interactive Festival is very excited that danah boyd will serve as the Opening Speaker for the 2010 event. One of the worlds foremost authorities on social networks, boyd works at Microsoft Research New England and also serves as a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and...

In the midst of the financial crisis, people are compelled to save, budget and lower their dependency on traditional financial services. Stock picking communities, Person-to-Person lending, personal finance management and even FICO-score tracking services have emerged to serve the changing needs of customers exclusively served by traditional banks...

When technology is leveraged around passion and purpose for the sake of results not profits, powerful things can happen. While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.