Day 3 at SXSW

So far, everyone has survived SXSW. Some of us just barely. Last night’s theme was “get Darcie drunk”, and it was a success. We hung out at the convention center all day, then went to the Google party. We met some really great and fun people. We ended up at the Apple bar (like the martini- not the iCompany). Great bar- Jared our server was very friendly and Kyle the skinny bouncer was great too. Then we came back to the ranch and kept the party going. Getting up was a hard process this morning.

Some memorable quotes from the team:

“It smells like man.” (Shea Sylvia)

“That’s a really long pee.” (Shea Sylvia)

“I get smarter the more I drink.” (Shea Sylvia)

Tags: shea sylvia, sxsw

Day One at SXSW

What an eventful day! The airport lost my luggage, so it was a good thing Brian brought some extra clothes for me. He’s such a sweet guy. Chad cooked us all breakfast, bacon and eggs. He made us wait until after his run though…something is not quite right about coming back from an early morning run and frying up some bacon.

Mark and Aaron arrived today. Always nice to see Mark.

We set up the tents today, had a chance to check out the property. Just a few more people to arrive.

Tonight is BarCamp. Most of the team is downtown already, but Darcie and I are waiting for UPS to make a delivery here, so while our coworkers are out at the bar, we are enjoying the view of the ranch from the pool side.

Well, UPS is utterly lost, so Darcie and I are going to join the cohorts downtown. Yeehaw!

Blog Network Camp- SXSW

An update on what’s going on with the BNC. As mentionned before, it’s Monday March 10th from 6pm to 9pm.

As mentioned on Jeremy’s blog the event is open to everyone, and those who would get the most out of it would be blog network owners, managers or editors. We’ve got some wonderful sponsors for the event: ligit, outbrain and picapp and it’s guaranteed to be even better than it was last year.

The event schedule is as follows:

6-6:15- networking

6:15-6:45- Jeremy’s Intro, State of Industry talk

6:45 to 7:00: Lijit demo

7:00 to 7:30: Making Money/Monetization

7:30- 7:45: Outbrain Demo

7:45: 8:15: Growing Traffic

7:15 to 8:30: Picapp Demo

8:30 to 9:00- Business Issues 

The location details can be found here http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/424913/ (as well as the opportunity to sign up for it).  

For more details on the event and any other b5 stuff at SXSW- e-mail ed@b5media.com

b5media at SXSW- Updates

A few updates about out plans for SXSW. As mentionned before, in a million different places, we are renting a ranch just outside of Austin. We have a few camping spaces left, if anyone wants to camp there…but the house itself is over booked…which should be interesting. I call dibs on the shower first. Initially, we had announced that the b5 BBQ would be on Friday, March 7th, however, Bar Camp Austin is going to be on that night, and we are sponsoring it, so we will all be there instead (so everyone come out!!).

We are doing bowling on Sunday night. We filled up one team, but probably have more people interested, so whoever wants to bowl, let me know and we can put together another team.

Monday night is the Blog Network Camp which we are organizing. It’s more of a summit type event for others in the industry. If you would like more information on this, please let me know.

Tuesday March 11th is the new night for the BBQ at the ranch. This is open to all lovers of b5media. Please let me know if you plan on attending so we can plan properly.

My e-mail address is ed@b5media.com please get back to me with any requests.