Technically Women represent at SXSW Interactive

We’ve had a lot of discussion on this blog about empowering more women to speak at conferences and to raise the visibility of women in social media in general — now is our chance.

Today, South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive opened its panel picker for the 2010 event. I’m thrilled to say that several of the Technically Women have submitted panels for consideration. In support of helping each other — and more women — get the visibility in social media that we deserve, I thought it would help to list where you might find us at SXSW. This way you can vote for us if you so choose.

The thing is, we don’t want you to vote for us simply because we’re women. We want you to vote for us if you think we present good content and ideas about which you want to hear. Here’s a list so you can judge for yourself:

Maggie Fox
Scaling Social Media: Getting Credible Content to Mass Audiences
News 2.0 – How Old Media Companies Are Inventing New Models

Rachel Happe
Building Social Strategies at Fortune 100 Companies

Adele McAlear
Posts Mortem: Death and Digital Legacy

Shireen Mitchell
Is There A Technological Fix for Human Behavior?
Social Media Women of Color

Susan Scrupski
Social Design for Enterprise 2.0

Jennifer Leggio
Inherent Dangers of Real-Time Social Networking
How (Not) to Get Banned on Social Networks!
Hitting Bombs: Better Social Business Through Sports Metaphors

What are some other great proposed panels including or being led by women at SXSWi? Leave a list in the comments.

12 Responses to “Technically Women represent at SXSW Interactive”

  1. I have a post on my site with my panel submissions

    How Sci-Fi Shaped the Internet
    Accessibility: The Internet We Don’t See

    http://butyoureagirl.com/2009/08/17/vote-for-my-sxsw-panels-sci-fi-internet-and-website-accessibility-sxsw/

    by Adria Richards, ButYoureAGirl.com
    on 17. Aug, 2009

  2. Fast Break Upheaval: Social Media’s Impact on Pro Sports.
    Suggested by the top Twitter source for women’s basketball news: http://twitter.com/hoopfeed (http://hoopfeed.com) run by Cheryl Coward (appeared on the “Where are the Black Tech Bloggers” panel in ‘08 moderated by Lynne D. Johnson.

    by Cheryl
    on 17. Aug, 2009

  3. Covering big issues on small budgets — with me @laurahertzfeld and Amanda Hirsch @creativedc/@publicmediagal

    by Laura Hertzfeld
    on 17. Aug, 2009

  4. Link for Big Issues, Small Budgets: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4091

    by Laura Hertzfeld
    on 17. Aug, 2009

  5. Mine? ;) Self Hate Isn’t Sexy: Gender, Race & Tech http://bit.ly/sxswsexy (I have three but that one is most applicable here I think)

    by Leslie Poston
    on 18. Aug, 2009

  6. Here’s my proposed panel:

    How Not To Be An E-Hole: Playing Nice in the Social Media Sandbox.

    Thanks to the daily explosion of new technology, you don’t have to be a Nigerian Prince to behave badly online. From buying Followers to spamming Friends to bribing bloggers to Trash Tweets (”this place is an armpit”), E-Holism is rampant. So how do you keep from stepping-in-it? This preso will discuss the rapidly evolving ethics and etiquette of playing nicely in today’s increasingly muddy Social Media Sandbox. (And yes, you just might be an E-Hole and not even know it.)

    http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4477

    by Sarah Browne
    on 18. Aug, 2009

  7. I’d be honored for you to add my panel idea:

    http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3136

    by Laura Roeder
    on 18. Aug, 2009

  8. I’ve got two presentations up for voting
    Taming the Social Media Monster for Your Clients
    http://bit.ly/Ffhyo

    Effective Strategies for Social Media Engagement (SocMed doesn’t need to be a time suck) http://bit.ly/1ajCDu

    by Janet Fouts
    on 18. Aug, 2009

  9. Thanks ladies, for all of the great panels! Keep ‘em coming.

    by Jennifer Leggio
    on 18. Aug, 2009

  10. [...] As an aside, there are some great titles for application developers, for the general consumer, and presentations on gender and cultural equality, and so on. Those didn’t make the list only because I’m laser focusing on business tools and strategies. I also purposely did not include any of my own panels (but if you’re interested, they can be found here). There are also some great panels led by women listed over here. [...]

    by 35 vote-worthy SXSW social business panels | Social Business | ZDNet.com
    on 18. Aug, 2009

  11. Voted and commented on these panels and I even linked to this blog encouraging others to do so on my blog.

    by Andrea Baker
    on 20. Aug, 2009

  12. Thanks Andrea! I’m also going to link your proposal here as it sounds quite interesting:

    Innovating Bureaucracy: Getting Government to Share
    http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3636

    by Jennifer Leggio
    on 21. Aug, 2009

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