Just in case you didn’t know, South by Southwest Interactive just launched its interactive panel picker for SXSW 2008. The panel picker is a cool way for you to shape the programming for SXSW Interactive 08. There are over 600 panel proposals to peruse and you can vote for all of the panel proposals that you want to attend, pique your curiosity, or are proposed by folks you know. All you have to do to cast your vote is register for a *free* SXSW voting account.

Why all the info about registering and voting?

We submitted two different panel proposals:

Content 2.0: Social Media Evolved

Panelist: Sandra Burchsted, Michele Bowman, Jerry Paffendorf, and Jon Lebkowsky

Description:

Web 2.0 is transforming into Content 2.0. Learn about three social media projects that illustrate this rapidly evolving landscape; FringeHog Tags the World, an open source foresight project that’s building a visual database of trends; the Metaverse Road Map Project which explores multiple pathways to the 3D enhanced web and WorldChanging.com a network of communities that’s both virtual and physical.
Futurists’ Sandbox: Scenarios for Social Technologies in 2025

Panelist: Michele Bowman, Sandra Burchsted and Jamais Casio

Description:

What futures emerge when everything is “hyperlocal” and the boundaries between what is real and virtual disappear Take a futurists’ tour of emerging social technologies and tap into the collective genius of fellow SXSWer. In this *interactive* session, we’ll explore four scenarios about the future of social technologies in 2025.

If you find our panels interesting or if you just want to give us a five star shout out because we’re friends, we’d greatly appreciate your vote. Below you’ll find links to some of our friends who have submitted panel proposals to SXSW. Check out the 600+ proposals and take the time to give your online friends and your favorite bloggers a five star shout out. Remember, you can vote for as many as you’d like.

Thanks,

sandra

Panels proposed by our friends:

The Future is You

The Whole World is Watching