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Great news, everyone! We just found out that Reggie has been accepted to speak at the SXSW!! Thank you, EVERYONE, for your online votong and great support, especially Jason McElweenie who started this whole thing!!! Way to go, Jason!

Here is the page that lists Reggie’s topic http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels Here’s what they sent us:

Dear Reggie Bibbs,

Greetings and congratulations!

This e-mail pertains to this proposal that you submitted to the SXSW PanelPicker:

“Becoming An Inspiration – One Pixel At A Time”

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE E-MAIL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU TWEET, ETC

We really like your proposal — and it scored well with the general public voting as well as with the Advisory Board. To this end, we would like this to be a “Core Conversation” at the 2010 event. We received more than than 2300 outstanding proposals via the SXSW PanelPicker — so being selected for the event means that your idea represents the best of the best of the best. Congrats!! And, thanks again for putting together such a great proposal.

To your most basic question . .. what is a Core Conversation? We started doing these in 2008 and they have proven to be immensely popular with SXSW attendees. Core Conversations occur in slightly smaller rooms than do panels. Moreover, these sessions involve a lot more interactivity than the more traditional panel format. So, if the traditional panel format involves presenting an expert’s information to the audience, then the Core Conversation involves leading the audience in a discussion on the topic at hand. Given this is a discussion, Core Conversation rooms do NOT include AV equipment such as a computer or a projection screen — these sessions are creative people sharing their ideas with other creative people, as opposed to passively watching a presentation. We repeat — Core Conversation rooms do NOT include AV equipment.

We look forward to receiving your reply / confirmation as soon as possible. If you do not confirm before 1:00 pm CST on Monday, November 30, then your proposal probably won’t make it onto the web post for Tuesday, December 1.

After we receive your reply / confirmation, we will begin the process of sending you lots and lots more information about your speaking slot at SXSW.

As for questions, we know that you probably have tons of these. We will be sending you lots of information about SXSW as soon as you confirm your participation — and we believe this information will answer most of your questions. But, if you need an answer immediately, that is what we are here for.

Once again, congratulations on being selected as part of the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival! Also, thanks for bearing with us on this form letter. We promise that future communications will be more personalized!

Best regards,

Hugh Forrest
SXSW Interactive Festival
March 12-16, 2010
Austin, Texas

http://www.sxsw.com/interactive

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