Gary Helps You Find SXSW & Austin Events

We are just a few days away from the annual event known as SXSW. I’ve provided a primer for the 2010 SXSW which should help you get around and make the most out of the event.

So how do you keep track and/or find all of the events and then figureo out which SXSW events you want to attend? Here are some options – it’s important to note that none of the guides seem to have all of the events listed.

• Plancast – the popular valley-based service has a list of “plans” aka events around SXSW interactive. Considering how popular SXSW seems to be with the Plancast community, it was very hard to find the page listing the events – they should probably link to it from the Plancast homepage.
• Gary’s Guide – the NY-based service has event listings for about 20 cities. Gary appears to have the most comprehensive listing for Austin events. What I like about Gary’s list is that it also shows tech events not-related to SXSW – i.e regular meetups – which is great to meet locals and get a deeper look at a topic or subject.
• Upcoming – Yahoo’s Upcoming event list service has a list of SXSW events. I’ve never found Upcoming to be that useful to me but it does appear to be a very popular service on the west coast.
• SXSW – The official list of parties and events around the conference.
• Meetup – Typically a good resource for a listing of events for a city and/or time, I was unable to find a list of sxsw or even Austin-based events for next week. It appears they have redesigned the site and the formerly-easy way to find meetups has been removed.

I think Gary’s Guide has the best listing of events. The list is easy to browse and also very simple to add an event to a calendar and/or share the event with friends. Leave a comment if you know of other good event listings for SXSW and I will add them to the post.