SXSW Get the Vote Out Campaign, part 1 - Robert Scales

Meet the Candidates!

Rolling along with the SXSW Get the Vote Out campaign, heeerrrre's Robert Scales.

Robert Scales is the CEO and Founder of Raincity Studios, a consummate biz-ness-man and an international man of "open everything" evangelism.

A multi-year veteran of SXSW, he is pitching two panels for Interactive 2009 covering some of his dearest subjects: Drupal, Social Media, China and the Olympics.

For your Consideration:

1) Using Drupal to Manage, Publish, and Promote Your Content - Robert Scales + a collection of Drupalista panelists

Drupal is a fast-growing content management system built by a loose knit community committed to making a highly usable and infinitely extendable publishing platform ideal for individuals to enterprises. Learn how to use Drupal to organize content, publicize your message, and activate your audience.

2) Social Media and the Olympics - Robert Scales + panelists

Coverage of the Olympic Games is dominated by IOC's contracted rights-holder and accredited major media conglomerates however some feel there is a role for grassroots documentation of both sporting events and the cultural context. The related conundrums are discussed by social media makers who covered several Olympics Games.

Credentials:

To convince you of Scales' skills (and colourful arms), here's a video - Open Source Conversations - featuring Scales interviewing Matt Mullenweg, founder developer of Wordpress, and Kris Krug, Raincity Studios' colleague and ace photographer, at Studio SX in 2008.

Robert's RCS bio also points out:

Robert teaches eBusiness and Web Technologies at Vancouver Film School, he speaks and co-organized events such as Barcamps: Beijing, Vancouver, Shanghai, Drupalcamps, and other open source conferences such as the China Blogger Conference and Open Source Camp Beijing.

Scales lives in Shanghai currently, where he is learning Mandarin, and continuing to work with his Vancouver and regional teams. He can occasionally be found hanging out at his restaurant.

Robert holds a diploma in Business Management and a Senior Management Certificate in New Media and Web Development from BCIT.

Need more Scales?

• Robert Scales.org
• Scales on You Tube
• Scales' Flickr photostream
• "robertscales" tag on Flickr
• Scales' Twitter
• Scales' Olympic coverage via Beijing 2008 Social Media Backpack

Thank you for your Support!