The 19th annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival will be held in Austin, Texas March 9-13, 2012. Over nearly two decades, SXSW has become one of the most important conference speaking destinations for established thought leaders and newcomers alike.

Following up on his speaking appearance at last year’s SXSW, we’ve put together a compelling proposal for Beyond Philosophy founder and CEO Colin Shaw to speak again this year. Now we need your help.

Crowd-sourced voting accounts for nearly one-third of every speaking proposal’s selection score. In other words, we’d like to ask you, our readers, to help us by voting for Colin’s submission on the SXSW PanelPicker. The more votes we get, the higher we score.

The process is easy:

  1. Click here to register for a free SXSW account, which will allow you to vote on submissions. Don’t worry; it’s really simple and quick.
  2. Once registered, visit Colin’s proposal, “Customers are irrational: Stop fighting it,” to vote.
  3. Then simply click the thumbs-up icon so your vote can be registered.

I’d also like to encourage you to share this information with everyone in your network who values customer experience.

Thanks so much. We hope to see you in Austin!