SXSW Interactive 2011: Russia Online

One of the great opportunities that SXSW affords those attending is a powerful networking nexus from people around the globe.

At this year’s event, I serendipitously met a new friend from Moscow, Julia Neznanova, a client services director with the Moscow-based DigitalZm agency.

After Julia and I got to chatting, I realized our conversation was a podcast waiting to happen, so Scott Laningham and I arranged to capture her insights about the Russian Internet landscape on disk.

The resulting interview can be found here, and I think it would surprise many who aren’t familiar with the Russian online landscape just how vibrant the digital scene is in Moscow and beyond.

Thanks again to Julia for her insight.  Scott and I very much enjoyed and learned a lot from our conversation, and I hope you will, too.