hitting the ground running at sxsw

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Yesterday was such a whirlwind after 8 hours of travelling.    It was a good start, though, and i have to confess I went to bed pretty early. 

From the second i ponied up for the SuperShuttle, I met folks here for South By.  Joelle Reeder from The Moxie Girls (who’s just as bubbly as you’d expect a “Moxie Girl” to be!), Kevin McQuarn from The Advocate and Julie Porter. the Deputy Director of the Oklahoma Film & Music Department - we had a very interesting conversation about Okie Noodling, a doc about people fishing barehanded that i’ve gotta see. 

On to the party…Entertained myself by wondering about the male-to-female ratio.  5 to 1, easy, but still a lot more equitable than some of the other social media conferences i’ve been to.  Met some crazy people from b5 media and Jim Turner, a daddy-blogger-turned-people-connector and Baratunde Thurston, who has the coolest job in the world:  he’s the web editor of The Onion. Everytime he introduced himself, you could hear people saying, “The Onion! That’s so cool!”  Wish I got that kind of reaction from telling people I work at Bravo - I guess I have, in a few instances, but it’s a very narrow circle of people in Harrisburg.  Ha.

Had a great conversation about Barack Obama with Baratunde, Todd Norem, a copywriter from Minneapolis, and Trevor Holewinski - who shared his own experiences as an Austinite who was just in the middle of the political primary blitz.  Trevor’s a great guy with PA roots who started his own company doing website development and all kinds of other stuff that’s a bit above my head. 

Can’t wait to start the sessions.  FRANK WARREN is a keynote later on in the week…I am unbelievably excited for this one. 

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