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SXSW: tomorrow is happening there, but I’m still stuck in today

Nope, I’m not at SXSW either. I’ve never been. Probably never will go. It happens to fall right around the time of the busiest event on our campus, the annual St. Pat’s Celebration, and I pretty much need to stick around campus for the duration of the event.

But just because we can’t attend doesn’t mean we can’t experience it vicariously. Here are a few resources to help you out:

  • The obvious portal for all things SXSW is the official website. But that’s kind of routine, no?
  • The #SXSW hashtag on Twitter will clue you in to all the cool things happening there, and all the cool things the cool kids are doing in Austin. But you’ll soon tire of all the chatter about the cool hangouts you’ll never go to and the cool people you’ll never meet.
  • Click through relevant Slideshare presentations, like this one on Universities in the “free” era (h/t to Delicious power user Mark Greenfield for sharing this).
  • If it’s the music you’re missing out on, download a couple of free SXSW samplers from Amazon and NPR.
  • Tune out the real SXSW altogether and focus your attention on the fake SXSW — “the virtual get together where you don’t have to leave your home in order to attend. You can host a panel. post your handle or smoke your sandal.”
  • Finally, follow along on the fakest of SXSW adventures: Todd Sanders‘ SXSW imagication. Start with Day 1 and work your way along with Todd.

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A lot of the folks I follow on Twitter are at SXSW Interactive as I blog this, and they’ve been tweeting up a storm over the past 24 hours. All the social media superstars are there, I think, along with a gaggle of microblogging groupies (and I mean that in the nicest way, for that is what I would be were I present). The best part — the SXSW music event — hasn’t even gotten started yet. Anyway, if you’re among the masses who are not at SXSW but want to follow along, but don’t want to sort through the Twitter clutter, here are a few resources:

  • The BFG Communications blog is doing a nice job of wrapping up the early sessions. BFG posted a summary of Forrester guru Charlene Li‘s presentation, Social Strategies for Revolutionaries, and linked to her presentation on SlideShare.
  • SXSW in pictures. If you’d rather look at a picture than read, ClickZ points to the work of Sunni Brown and Marilyn Martin, who “graphically record the proceedings – quickly, compellingly and more succinctly than many of the journalists or bloggers in the vast session rooms.” Cool stuff.
  • Coverage of today’s big event, an interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, which apparently turned truly interactive. Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) reports on the event, as does Mashable’s Kristen Nicole.
  • Perhaps some of the higher ed bloggers who went to the SXSW Higher Ed Web Meetup last Friday will also be posting. It would be nice to get a higher ed perspective on some of the discussion.

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