Hitch and some bright folks from the agency world have put together 2 panels for the 2010 South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin.

30% of our vote comes from the public. We’d appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes to register then vote for our panels. 

Details are at the following 2 pages.

1. http://tinyurl.com/hitch-sxsw-1-dinosaur

2. http://tinyurl.com/hitch-sxsw-2-hearse

Register then check yes (or no)–but we’d appreciate the yes! Then make plans to head to Austin, TX in March! SXSW is a great week of interactive know how.

Voting stays open from August 17 – Sept 4th.  In the words of 2 old ad pitchmen “Thanks, and we appreciate your support!”

Thank you~

David Wiggs (Hitch), Spike Jones (Brains on Fire), Tim Hayden (GamePlan), Adam Kleinberg (Traction) and Pete Lerma (Click Here)

Finally this weekend, I had the time to re-read my notes from SXSW and what a ton of insightful stuff.

Charlene Li (who’s one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing speak) said:

Organizational stuctures and social media maps do not look alike.  Silos are being blown apart.  We’ve now got to place the customer inside the organizational chart; ideally at the top and center.”

Brilliant.

And if you’d like to see Charlene’s entire presentation it’s here:

WOW.  WOW.  WOW.  My head is spinning.

So it’s the end of the week and I had such good intentions of blogging through the whole interactive craziness.  Up early, out late.  Meeting Rockstars.  Catching up with people I’d tweeted, facebooked, linkedin, emailed and phoned but not met; great getting to know them!  All in all, South By Southwest was incredible.

Need time to digest, but certainly lots to blog about.  Lots of great info, thoughts, opinions, projections and trends that will drive innovation at Hitch for our clients and partners.

Came all the way from Bellingham to meet people from, well, Bellingham.  And Seattle, Virginia, the U.K. and a host of hospitable Texans, Californians, New Yorkers, and possibly every other state in the union–although I haven’t even counted the business card collection just yet.

Met people from Apple, Microsoft, MTV, and dozens of other cutting edge companies and agencies, new partners, new friends, new clients and prospects.  It’ll be amazing to see the relationships that form from these 4 days.

Alas, no photos.  Took lots and even some video but today right toward the end my cell was stolen (ok, lost while it was right in front of me to be more accurate) and never returned.  At least not yet.  But I was listening to Guy Kawasaki interview Chris Anderson.  It was hard to be upset.

Happy St. Pats to ye all!

I’ve blocked out my calendar for March, 2010 in Austin….[more to come]

This week, I’ll be one of a mere 10,000+ people descending on Austin, TX for the SXSW Interactive Festival; or what I heard refered to as “Spring Break for Geeks.”

5 days of cutting edge interactive and social media madness; and I sense it’ll be a game changer for Hitch as well as our partners, clients, and prospects.  A chance to talk to and learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry.  People driving change in our industry every day.

I’ve got meetings and meet ups scheduled between sessions or over beers and at least 10 different talks and panels every day.  

You can follow my twitter feeds from this blog (top, right margin.)  I’ll probably add a Flickr feed here as well during the week.

Looking forward to meeting everyone I’ve been chatting with recently:  Tim, Ian, Matt, CC, Neenz, Peter S, Chris B and a host of others known and unknown!  Can’t wait to share SXSWi with everyone who regularly checks out Hitch but can’t be in Austin.

Next year–be there!