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We have had a great response to our request for raffle items in the few weeks we have been planning Austin Twestival. The Austin Twestival Planning Team is grateful to all of our sponsors and contributors. An extra special thanks to the volunteers who helped me gather cool items, especially @katmandelstein and @reanimated. With that, here’s the final tally of raffle items:

• Webmaster World PubCon2009 conference registration
• 1 yr membership to NetworkinAustin.com
• X Box 360 Halo3 game
• MS Office Ultimate 2007
• MS office for Mac 2008 with MS Expression Media
• Belkin TuneSync for iPod
• Speck Hardshell Cases for iPhone 1st Generation
• Columbia Sportswear fleece throw (burnt orange)
• Go Dance: Dance Lesson Gift Certificate
• Greenling Organic Delivery Gift Certificate
• Goddess Fit Training Session
• Audiobook CD Set of Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman’s sequel book about “Geo-Greenism”
• Take Care of Texas tote bag w/ TCoT lanyard, pen/highlighter from LCRA Environmental Laboratories Services
• South by Southwest 2009 Interactive Festival badge
• South by Southwest 2009 Film Festival badges
• South by Southwest 2009 Music Festival wristbands
• Gift certificate to Fringe for haircut
• Indian wedding satin purse and decorative box from Shanti Bua
• Tarot Reading by TarotByArwen
• Four free 30 minute lessons to Strum Music School
• Autographed photo of Houston Astros Jeff Bagwell
• autographed CD and cookbook from musician Kimmie Rhodes
• Pint glasses and baseball cap from Black Star Co-op Pub and Brewery
• Tickets for Scare for a Cure’s annual haunted house, bonus award upon haunt attendance - random body parts courtesy of Edwin the Mad Scientist

Every person who buys a ticket online or at the door receives one raffle ticket. More raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the event, $3 for one ticket or $5 for every 2 tickets. Keep in mind that some of these items are valued up to $500, so every ticket you buy increases your chance of winning!

Have questions or comments? Send a @ to me at @snax. We hope to see you at Austin Twestival!

South by Southwest Interactive. It is the de facto standard for web conferences and a who’s who in the online space. South by Southwest stepped up big for Twestival by not only offering one SxSW Interactive badge, but two music wristbands and two film badges for our raffle and the international auction. We are so lucky to have this conference in our city. If you can’t afford to go, now is you have the chance to go to all three!

DETAILS and UPDATE:
Currently the SXSW Interactive badge is slated for the twestival international auction that will go live today. The wristbands and film badges will be raffle prizes. You must be a ticketholder for our Austin event at Aces to win a raffle prize. You will need to be present to win the raffle prizes EXCEPT you can win one of the SXSW wristbands or film badge if you brought a ticket through amiando.com and provided your name and email address. We can’t make that exception for the entire raffle, as we do not want to redirect charitable funds to cover cost of shipping, handling, and insurance of items.

Buy a ticket here and tell all your friends to come. The more event and raffle tickets we sell, the more people have a chance to escape poverty and lead better lives.

If you see @snax on Twitter, tell her good job for making this connection. And a great thanks to John Rodriguez and the SxSW crew! We are so excited for SxSW this year!