Vote for my SXSW Interactive panel: Digital Detox: Powering Off to Turn Back On

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Hey friends,

After this year's successful panel, "Are We Killing Social with Social?", Caroline Giegerich and I are teaming up again to put our phones down during one of the most intense digital multitasking weeks of the year, SXSW Interactive. Your votes count for 30% of whether the panel is chosen, so please take a few minutes to register,... [read more]

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3552

Hey friends,

After this year's successful panel, "Are We Killing Social with Social?", Caroline Giegerich and I are teaming up again to put our phones down during one of the most intense digital multitasking weeks of the year, SXSW Interactive. Your votes count for 30% of whether the panel is chosen, so please take a few minutes to register, vote, comment and promote.

Thanks,
Tarah

Full details:

Digital Detox: Powering Off to Turn Back On

Tarah Feinberg: Head of the Live Media Studio at iCrossing http://www.icrossing.com/
Levi Felix: Co-Founder of the Digital Detox Retreat http://thedigitaldetox.org/
William Powers: Author of Hamlet’s Blackberry http://www.amazon.com/Hamlets-BlackBerry-Practical-Philosophy-Building/dp/0061687162
Caroline Giegerich: Founder/Editor of the Daily Marauder, Blogger Huffington Post & Head of Digital Marketing at Smashbox Cosmetics www.dailymarauder.com

Panel Description:
MG Siegler, former writer at Techcrunch, once wrote, “I will check my phone at dinner and you will deal with it.” The average American spends 5.35 hours a day on social networking sites. 30% of leisure time in the USA is spent on the internet. The advent of digital culture & emergence of new technologies has brought a dramatic shift in our behavior. The digital age was meant to empower us all but instead has tied many of us to our devices. Many of us are now guilty of falling asleep, iPhone in hand, or ignoring loved ones at dinner to check our phones. This fragmented behavior and loss of attention is cause for concern. Constant interruptions from gadgets and social network notifications are causing a change in our behavior, from long term strategic thinking to reactive diminutive thinking and short attention spans. We will examine these topics and explore the road back to empowerment using a diet of digital detox. Connecting could be as simple as being present.

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