This sounds like a winner to me. Shelia is always outspoken in our Austin Social Media Club meetings and very up on all the new tech.

- David J. Neff

I'd sign up to see Sheila speak!

Yes, please. Travel blogging is a vibrant and growing niche.

Thanks to everyone who has dropped by to vote and comment; I promise a lively group of panelists if we're selected!

Sounds awesome!

Sheila is a wonderfully engaging speaker. She'll bring the inner-writer out of anyone!

I plan to attend SXSW and will be thrilled to see Shelia as a panelist.

Sheila Scarborough is a wonderful travel writer and knows her way around the blogging world. I would love to attend this panel.

Tentative panelists include:

*** Wendy Perrin, consumer travel editor at "Conde Nast Traveler" magazine and author of the Perrin Post blog - http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/blogs/perrinpost/

*** Pam Mandel, writer/photographer and author of Nerd's Eye View - http://www.nerdseyeview.com/

*** Leif Pettersen, guidebook author ("Lonely Planet Guide to Romania and Moldova") plus his Killing Batteries blog - http://killingbatteries.com/ - and This is Why I Love Minneapolis (and Sometimes St. Paul) - http://thisiswhyiloveminneapolis.com/

All three are dynamite writers and panelists!

This is a session I'd definitely attend!

Any panel Sheila is on will be a great one - she's a fantastic speaker, funny as hell and knows her stuff. I'll see you there, Sheila! :)

I'd go to SXSW if this panel was on the menu.

Thanks very much for the supportive comments and votes; may we sit next to each other in the Coach section someday. I'll share my sandwich and water!

Sheila is a great addition to the panel! Funny, knowledgeable, and very active in the social media arena.

Everyone can benefit from hearing from Sheila on travelblogging. Its relevant to everyone who travels, not just people with a travel blog. Come on guys, lets do it!

Always enjoy your tweets. I'll be there @sheilaS

***** From Sheila *****

Thanks very much to SXSWi for accepting this panel idea - I'll be speaking with Pam Mandel of Nerd's Eye View (http://www.nerdseyeview.com/) on Saturday, March 14, 2009.

Specific room and time are still TBD.

Follow me on Twitter at @SheilaS and Pam is @nerdseyeview

We plan to talk about writing compelling travel blog content, getting lots of posts out of even short visits or local travel, how to publicize your blog without being an annoying spammer, how travel/tourism PR folks can interact with travel bloggers and as many other topics and questions as we can cram into one hour.

Tweet us ahead of time with your suggestions!

We'd also like to arrange some sort of informal travel blogger tweetup during SXSWi, if we can find a good time and place.

See you there....

Whoa is me. I can't make it to SXSWi for your travel panel. Will you have a podcast or something for those of us left in the dust?
Twitter @Nancydbrown

Hi Nancy,

I'll bet you anything that with all the travel geeks there, we'll be able to podcast it AND UStream it AND live-tweet it AND Qik it AND....well, I'll hold up my Old School cell phone for you to hear, or something. :)

Hi readers,

The Blog Highways panel is confirmed for 3:30 - 4:30 pm on Saturday, March 14. Still working out room details, and possible traveler's meetup. Thanks!

Looking forward; I read a lot of travel blogs and am looking forward to hearing your perspective...

Nice!!

What websites are great for travel blogging, like blogs that I can insert photos into the text and story? I.e. I don't like myspace for this, because photos go on one spot, and blogs on another, and they can't be viewed together...

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Nice traveling blog. Nice blog to post in. Traveling is my passion. I use to make holidays and outings. I do own some traveling blogs.

nice blog!!!, I also love traveling. I went to various countries and visited many historical places.

Traveling is my passion. Recently I went to a hill station. I also captured some beautiful snaps of that place.

I run a couple of international destination blogs myself (related to overseas property) and this really does give a little more than the norm. Genuinely fantastic narrative and easy to get into. Great blog I have leant plenty from this.