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Day 2 at SXSW: Panels and People

First, I want to thank everyone who came out to my panel, The Broke Diaries. It did not go as smoothly as I had planned, but I think we presented some useful information. Here’s the link to the presentation of SlideRocket.

Austin 360’s Digital Savant wrote a nice recap of The Broke Diaries.

At Black Blogging Rockstars, it was a family reunion of sorts. It was so good to see so many people I met last year. Check out the video that I made panning the audience.

Panelists

In the evening, I spoke at the Blacks in Tech panel. I met Toni Tipton Martin who writes this very cool food blog, The Jemima Code.

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Blacks in Tech Meetup at SXSWi

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Live from the blacks in tech meetup. Stage view, originally uploaded by baratunde.

After a long day of traveling, I made it to Austin just in time to be a panelist on the Blacks in Tech Meetup. The cab driver didn’t know how to get to the Carver Museum nor did he know where 1165 Angelina Street was. I don’t have an iPhone, but a fairly good memory so I remembered looking on the Google Map so I told him it was near 11th Street, so after slowly driving around the east part of town, we made it.

When I got inside, I first saw EJ Flavors and my SXSW roomie Twanna (Funky Brown Chick). After saying hello to a few people including “Papa Bear” George Kelly, the panel commenced.

Jeffery Bowman from Ogilvy moderated the panel which included Baratunde, Lynne D. Johnson, Denise Jacobs and me.

We talked about three main topics: brand, community and social networking tools.

It was a lively and informative discussion. I also met Corvida, Wayne Sutton and a few others who I will start following on Twitter.

Blacks In Tech Meetup

If you are at “South By” check out Denise Jacob’s panel on Monday, “Can the Afrosphere Survive the Age of Obama?” Also, Latoya Peterson from Racialicious is having a panel, “Can Social Media End Racism?”