With that in mind, I’d love to hear from anyone with feedback about the my.sxsw site.

Shoot me an email at: michaelbuckbee@gmail, or http://twitter.com/mbuckbee

I think I already owe 10 people drinks from the great suggestions we’ve received, but I’d love to add a few more to my list.

See you in Austin.

Thanks,

Mike

Lori

Can’t remember who owes whom a drink down there – but I’ll see you there!

Mongolian BBQ and Casino El Camino are great food places for lunch & they’re approx. two blocks from the convention center.
Drink oodles of water.
Be yourself. Fake gets sniffed out fast and harshly.
Lose the laptop. A Moleskine & a pen work wonders.
Be flexible with your evening plans. The official events will likely fill to overflow capacity 5 minutes after the doors open. Look for other unofficial events at any number of other bars/venues.
Twitter’s great for this. Set up SMS notifications from four or five people at SXSWi & you’ll be set to get a scoop on goings-on.
Be flexible with your session plans. It takes a while to walk from one end of the convention center to another & Interactive panels are usually spread out. This year there are panels at both the convention center and the Marriot.
Twitter’s great for this function, too.

Austin’s a no-smoking city as far as indoors goes, bars included. If you like cigars, Boboli cigars on 6th is awesome.
The convention center staff will usually tell you that you can’t bring in food or drink.
Power outlets, for those who have to bring a laptop, are available, but a power strip is nice to have in your pack.
The wireless in the convention center will go out at least once.

This is a chance for you to meet those whose books you’ve bought & whose websites you read. We’re all geeks & by nature, we trend towards being introverted. You’re amongst friends, so pull your head out of your laptop and look up. Introduce yourself, smile, and and say hi.

I’m the guy with the graying goatee and the kilt (or utilikilt).

allen stern :

eating tips is good – frankly the choices really suck right next to the convention center – although the sports bar diag. across is my favorite – i ate there a lot last 2 yrs and probably will this yr as well.

let me know if you might be interested in featuring any of your stuff on cn

Allen, yeah, I tend to hang at Champion’s a lot as well There are some surprisingly healthy restaurants on 6th Street as well

As far as CN, feel free to quote/etc as much as you want. Unless you wanted something more indepth like a summary post?

let me know if you might be interested in featuring any of your stuff on cn

@Tim: I’m going to include introvert-specific tips in a future post, thanks for the inspiration!

@Merlene: I’ll include eating tips in a future post as well, so thanks!

Thanks everyone else for the feedback