Starting this Friday, the NetSquared team will be at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. The SXSWi conference is an opportunity for online media experts to get together for in-person networking and learning. If you're going to be there, we'd love for you to get in touch. Here's what we'll be up to:

The Social Media for Social Good collection from NTEN and NetSquared calls for your case studies in leveraging social media tools in your program work.

Social Media for Social Good

Everywhere you turn, you’re hearing about social media. Especially when it comes to fundraising. But at NTEN and NetSquared, we know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money. We know that social media can be used to change the world. That’s why we’re launching the Social Media for Social Good case study collection!

Here I sit in Northern New England, bummed because I'm not at South By Southwest Interactive. I am especially sad because as I began putting this post together, I found out that not only am I missing the conference, but a Social Media for Social Good panel as well.

The New Orleans Net Tuesday is coming to SXSW and doing so with a bang!  They will be driving into town in style in a bus that will be repurposed during the event as a free shuttle for attendees.  They will be at Booth #811, with daily drawings for prizes. Plus, they're throwing an after party and you're invited!

Learn more and connect at SXSW!

Net2NO After Party

Net2NO is brining you a party at SXSW and hopes all your Net Tuesday and NetSquared community members who are in Austin will stop by.

Anyone planning on (or considering) attending SXSW Interactive in Austin? http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/

I'll be presenting, and would love to meet up with fellow nonprofiteers.

Email me if you’d like an invite to the SXSW Interactive Nonprofiteer google group, where we’ll plot plots of goodness! rweidinger at commonknow dot com

Sessions by topic here: http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_by_category/

A few presentations I thought might interest this list:
Friend Me! Vote for Me! Donate Now! (Julie Barko Germany)
Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons (Stephanie Booth)
Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce (Tony Hsieh)
Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World (Richard Rutter)

Only 9 days left till voting closes for the 2008 SXSW Interactive panels. Please consider voting for the NpTech panels listed below by September 21st. (You have to create a login account on the SXSW Panel Picker to rate the panels).

TechSoup has proposed two sessions:

Net Tuesday Houston's co-organizer, Ed Shipul, has proposed a SXSW Interactive panel, Pimp My Nonprofit: Real Nonprofits Kicking Ass with Online Technology.

Panelists will include Ed representing Schipul: The Web Marketing Company, nonprofit tech consultant and superstar Beth Kanter, Revenue and Brand Strategist for Nonprofit and Social Enterprise, Rachel Weidinger, former Communications and Technology Coordinator of Interplast Seth Mazow, and Erin Denny, Senior Product Manager of YouthNoise Initiatives.

You can vote here till September 21.

Netsquared has returned to Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival-- and this year we're hosting a panel. It's called "NPO 2.0: Widgets for Good Challenge," and it features Silona Bonewald (http://assistorg.org/), Zack Rosen (http://civicspacelabs.org/, http://chapterthreellc.com/)and Rosalyn Lemieux (http://neworganizing.com/). If you happen to be here, too, join us at our panel on Monday, March 12 from 5-6 pm.

Would anyone like to gather for an informal Net2 meet up directly after the session...?

If I'm not posting here or on the sxsw site, you can find me on twitter at  http://twitter.com/jenschlegel

I'll be there late Friday night - Monday late afternoon, and would love to meet folks, talk shop, imbibe.

On AIM: ianwrootslab; on gtalk: iwilker. 

-- Ian

The SXSW Interactive Panel Picker deadline is today!

Please consider voting for the panels that NetSquared has proposed:

So that you don't have to scroll through all 192 proposals, in the Community category we proprosed:

The Web to the Rescue: Net-centric Approaches to Disaster Recovery From tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes, to terror attacks and armed conflicts, global disasters dominate our news feeds and devastate lives. How have internet technologists quickly organized collective responses? Why is the social web uniquely positioned to take on this challenge? Public-private collaborations are also playing an increasing role in mobilizing people and resources. Let’s discuss the success stories, the obstacles, lessons learned, and where the web-based road to disaster recovery is heading.