follow our every move at sxsw
We'll be tweeting, blogging, vlogging and photo posting just about everything that happens at SXSW.
Here's all of the links that you'll need:
Twitter:
Minute by minute updates, posts, happenings and adventures will be posted on Twitter. 140 characters at a time.
Darryl's Twitter page
David's Twitter page
Tumblr
This is a fantastic blogging tool that we've completely fallen in love with. Things that can't be summed up in 140 characters on Twitter will be posted on our individual Tumblr pages. Look for photos, videos, notes from the speaker panels and whatever else might happen.
Darryl's Tumblr page
David's Tumblr page
BrandFlakes SXSW Edition
We'll post at least one update daily here. Think of this as the big picture overview of our adventures, without all of the clutter.
BrandFlakesForBreakfast SXSW Edition
Schedules
Going to SXSW and want to hook up with us? Check out our schedule with the most awesome social media scheduling tool, SCHED.
Darryl's Schedule
David's Schedule
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posted by darryl ohrt @ 1:40 PM
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david and darryl to return to sxsw. texas celebrates.
It's true. We'll be returning to SXSW 2009 for fun, learning, barbecue and beer. We're expecting a huge welcoming committee, red carpets, and lots of flash bulbs when we step off the private Plaid jet.
Like 2008, we'll each post to our Tumblr blogs the details of our individual SXSW travels. We'll share notes from speaker's panels and seminars plus comments, photos and opinions on whatever else happens. Naturally, we'll also be tweeting the minute by minute minutia of our days.
The best events, summaries and general experiences (or at least a daily recap) will be posted here at the official Brand Flakes For Breakfast SXSW edition.
See David's Tumblr here.
And Darryl's here.
Follow Darryl on Twitter
and David on Twitter
If you're also heading to SXSW, let's connect!
posted by darryl ohrt @ 9:41 AM
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Update: Monday turns into Tuesday.
Worked at the convention center until security kicked me out at around 11pm, and then asked my Twitter pals if the hotel, or a party should be next. Twitter friends said party. Duh.
Checked the hotel to find that the wifi was sucking bad, so I left to find the party that everyone was tweeting about. (Have I mentioned the awesomeness of Twitter today?)
So, off to the Six Lounge. Somehow I convinced the doorman to give me a magic bracelet that allows free drinks. Caught up with friends, met new friends, saw the caveman and Sarah Lacy. Probably not in that order. Headed home too late.
Labels: beer, darryl, parties, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:26 AM
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Trains, Planes and automobiles.
Austin, Texas...the most difficult place in the world to get to. What a day. We arrived at LaGuardia Airport on time, and ready to rock. Slight delay with our plane, as we heard there was some snow, in Dallas. Weird, but ok.
Our flight goes to Dallas, where we're supposed to connect to Austin. We land in Dallas, and it's snowing. Snowing pretty hard, by Dallas standards. (Which of course, made us laugh.) Until we found that 2 inches of snow SHUT THE ENTIRE AIRPORT DOWN. Connecting flight to Austin is cancelled.
Not discouraged, Giuli connected us up with American Airlines, and they booked us on a bus, to Austin. That's right. They can't get a plane off of the runway, but they can get a bus to the airport?? But, whatever - we're going to Austin.
We wait in an hour long line to find out where we're supposed to catch this bus. "Bus? This is an airport...." After several comments like this from American Airlines employees, we found a supervisor who confirmed that there was indeed a bus, that we were booked on it, and it was leaving at 9:30pm. But she didn't know where to get it. We'd have to go to the main ticketing counter, to find out.
The main ticketing counter. Can you imagine what that looked like, after the airport was shut down? More waiting, more searching for supervisors, and we're headed to "D30".
D30 is a doorway to the road in front of the ticketing area. A doorway. Not a gate. Nobody else is there. Nobody knows about a bus. We're nervous.
"Let's rent a car and drive there ourselves." So we hop a bus and head to the car rental hub.
The car rental hub....six empty counters, and two counters with about 80 or 100 people in line. Most with reservations. Everyone else says "we have no cars." A woman at Enterprise says, "well, I can get you a Mustang Shelby, but it's going to cost $209/day" Rob's eyes light up, and we agree. Wait in line. 20 minutes pass. Manager comes to counter, and confirms there's no Mustang, or any car at all.
We head to Alamo, and beg for a car. "We don't have any left." I hop on the self serve kiosk, and managed (still don't know how) to get a car reserved. Even the Alamo desk agent can't believe it - and has to come check it out. "How'd you do that?"
And, so we leave Dallas, in a rented car, for Austin. 3+ hours later, we're here. Phew.
Did I mention that we checked our bags? Tomorrow's adventure: Find our luggage!!
(See video clips and more details tomorrow, on our individual Tumblr pages.)
Labels: darryl, david, rob, travel
posted by darryl ohrt @ 2:34 AM
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how we're blogging at sxsw
We'll be keeping you informed about SXSW with a couple of new tools.
We'll each keep individual pages using Tumblr. We'll be updating our Tumblr pages throughout the days, using Utterz for audio and video posts, Twitter for microposts, and of course this main blog for regular updates. We'll also plan on sharing a Flickr photo set.
Here's the links to each of our individual posts (which right now may contain our existing Twitter feeds, and non-sxsw content):
David
Tumblr
Rob
Tumblr
Darryl
Tumblr
In theory, you'll be able to do nothing all day but watch our posts, capture new ideas, and stay more informed than your friends. Just plan to push your work aside for a few days.
If you have any doubt about us taking this seriously, just check out Dave's mug above. He promises to blog all the details. Even when Rob gets all drunk and runs around the hotel lobby in his underwear. We're told that Texas beer has magical qualities, like that.
Labels: darryl, david, flickr, rob, tumblr, twitter, utterz
posted by darryl ohrt @ 5:13 PM
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