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Vote for our SXSW 2010 Panel: My Start-Up Relationship

Every year it seems like the time to start getting ready for SXSW is earlier and earlier. Already the voting selection has begun for Interactive panels and this year we took a different approach with our panel submission.

Organized by Traci Miller, our Chief Mischief Officer, the panel: “My Start-up Relationship” talks about the other-side of being in a micro-business/start-up: How it impacts the relationship with your significant other, especially when you work together. Here’s the panel description:

It’s hard to leave work at work and home at home. What happens when they’re one in the same? This panels discusses the challenges of working and living with a spouse or friend that is a business partner.

And here’s some questions and topics that will get covered:

1. Your business partner is your spouse? Ahhh!
2. How to separate work from home.
3. What happens if it gets to be too much?
4. How to put your offline other at ease.
5. How to pull their attention away without making it seem you’re unsupportive.
6. What paperwork you need to have in place – no matter what!
7. Living and working together isn’t working, what’s the next step?
8. How to communicate, communicate, communicate!
9. Should we separate duties?
10. Schedule work nights and fun nights and stick to it.

We’ve got some interesting material already planned and may have some Collectivus surprises in store. (Yes, we’ll have launched by then.)

If you are heading to SXSW, please drop us a line. We’d love to meet you in person and hope you’ll both vote and attend our panel.

If you don’t plan on heading down to Austin next March, panel footage is usually posted online a few weeks after the event so you’ll still be able check it out. A quick sign-up and your support by giving our panel the “Thumbs Up” would be appreciated.

See You in Austin!

If you’re heading down to Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive, Film, or Music, we’ll be in town as well.

We’re not announcing anything; we’re not promoting anything. In fact, I’ll be down representing the day gig part of the time. We’re going down to meet with friends old and new, check out what others are launching and promoting, and to have a good time. It’s good to put your own project down and get some perspective on how others are approaching their projects. Plus, it’s Austin! I’m a former resident and love getting back into town.

Believe me, SXSW would be a great place to kick-off Collectivus, it’s just not ready yet folks — hang in there!

If you’re not going to Austin, you’re missing a great time and you should start marking your calendar for 2010 now. Who knows, maybe we’ll have something next year?

Hope to see, meet, or catch-up with you there!

Please Vote for our SXSW Panels

Voting begins today for the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival Panels in Austin, Texas. We are fortunate enough to be involved with total of three sessions which have been accepted for the Panel Picker. Voting goes through Friday, August 29th; we need your help!

If you’re not a SXSW alum, please fill out a quick sign-up over at the SXSW Panel Picker. You don’t have to be planning to attend SXSW (although you totally should) to sign-up and vote. It only takes a minute!

Please vote for our panels and any other topics you find interesting. There are a lot of great session ideas worth checking out. If you’ll be in Austin next March, we’d love to meet-up with you!

Here are the panels we’re involved with:

• “You Need to De-Geek the Geek, Geek!“
• “Friends And Following Has Flaws“
• “Whereify Your Content; Gain an Audience of Millions“

Thank you for the support!