Meetup Description: Come out any time during the day to take a lesson (or many lessons) and check out their fabulous floor! I’ll be posting this on the Peter Paul and Mary site as well.
From Austin Uptown Dance’s site:
Dance all day, and no pay!
Bring your friends and tell everyone to join us for a Free Day of Dance! 9 hours and 20 classes of dancing from beginner to advanced. Shout it out in the streets!
10:00am Two Step 1, Two Step 2
11:00am Jitterbug Swing 1, Two Step 3
12:00pm Cha Cha 1, Cha Cha 2
1:00pm Jitterbug Swing 2, Salsa 2
2:00pm Salsa 1, Salsa 3
3:00pm West Coast Swing 1, West Coast Swing 3
4:00pm Night Club 1, West Coast Swing 2
5:00pm Tango 1, Tango 2
6:00pm Waltz 1, Quickstep 1
I’ve been twittering for a bit. I tweeted @dvorak about his great podcasts and columns. Have you seen http://channeldvorak.com? If John get his son Arick to open source this, I’ll use it. I’m already rocking and rolling with Arick’s other open source project which has something to do with Craigslist. Sssshhh!
Lyn Bender just sent me a cryptic email about some kind of cryptic event Saturday morning. If I can talk Dot in to going to Nia Saturday morning and do the ride share thing we might have a go. It would be nice, Lynn, to have a localtion and maybe a couple of details.
Just got off the skype with rjnagy and he’s still resistant to twitter. Doesn’t he know this is futile?
We had a great wordpress meetup recently at http://conjunctured.com with Any Skelton or skeltoac everywhere.
While I am typing this I am talking to a delightful Spring rep, Josey, from the Phillipines who just set up my pda phone which I’m going to use for a backup for my iphone. She was really, really nice. I wish all support calls were like this!
I’m building a “social network” for Austin, Texas and also working on a green home site. If you want to beta test or have input on the Austin Social Network, go to http://austinlifestyles.com and sign up for the beta. If you’re actually in Austin, Texas we’re going to have some cool events coming up for our beta testers like pizza parties, basketball games, guest speakers, presentations, etc. It’s going to be a hoot!
BCS ratings are out and Texas is number 2! Despite being ranked fourth in both the Harris and the USA Today Coaches polls, Texas jumps into the top two because of computer strength. Hook ‘em.
You’ll notice another widget in the lower right column of this blog, it’s scoutle and I recommend you check it out and add me as your friend so we can compare notes. I found this in Louisvillian Tom Osborne’s profilactic mashup this morning. As far as I can tell, this came out of the Netherlands and it’s designed to be a blog community.
To quote Wicked Pretty, who has quite a following on Scoutle, “I particularly like the animated one, Scoutle. You have a little Scout (who you get to name and give a catchphrase) and he “wanders the internet” looking for people to match to your blog…I don’t really understand how it all works, so if you’re the kind . . . “
Is this the next big thing? It could get pretty big from what I’ve seen. If these guys hit it hard and listen to their community they’ve got a great start.
Here’s the description of Scoutle by the creators:
Scoutle is an automated social network for bloggers and functions as an ideal Guide for internet users to find a valuable blog, no matter the language, subject or location.
Scoutle helps you find, promote and connect blogs using an automated rating and matching system. Not only find a blog easily, but also know what a blog is worth and discover similar blogs. Scoutle searches, matches, validates and values… You only need to find a blog or as a user, make sure your blog is and keeps interesting.
Austin Aaron @austinaaron interviews Robert Scoble @scobleizer at the impromptu twitbq at Artz Rib House in Austin, Texas. Austin Aaron throws some curve balls and Scoble lines them in to center field, like what he would be doing if there were no internet. Scoble was in town for a Rackspace Cloud Computing rollout earlier in the day at the Austin City Limits Studios at the University of Texas.
Robert Scoble who is @scobleizer on twitter pulls together a “TwitBQ” at Artz Rib House on S Lamar in Austin, Texas. Paul Terry Walhus @springnet and Austin Aaron @austinaaron interview the twitterfolk around the table, Heather Snow, Dennis Foley with Homework Productions, and Rocky with Fast Company.
What is it about Robert Scoble that gets Austin, Texans more excited about barbecue than usual. It started this afternoon with a Rackspace cloud computing rollout at the Austin City Limits Studios where guests were treated to unlimited portions of Salt Lick BBQ and culminated in the evening at a “twitbq” partly pulled toether by @springnet and @austinaaron.
This is part 1 of a 4 part video series and features Kelly Cree @kellycree and Jessica Mullen @jessicamullen who are creative, upcoming designers and videographers. They just breezed in to Austin from the cornfields of Illinois where they studied design at the University of Illinois, home of the “fighting Illini”. Part 2 will be an interview with 3 of the guests, part 3 of the series will be an interview with Scoble himself by Austin Austin @austinaaron and part 4 will be quick sound byte introductions of all the 20 or so guests that came to the twitbq on Wednesday, Oct 22 at Artz Rib House on S Lamar in Austin, Texas.
I must have timed my tweet perfectly because there it was on CNN. So I grabbed my video cam and made this one minute video of my comment about the mortgage crisis and basically they said they would get back to me on Monday. I asked if there would be any relief for folks with high interest mortgages, a pretty fundamental question.
The idea behind OneWebDay is to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that (1) celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world and (2) shed light on the problems of access and information flow.
OneWebDay is a global, decentralized event. We’re encouraging people around the world to meet up on Sept. 22 to talk about the threats to the net and how the web could change lives around the world in the future.
Our Austin event features a day-long extended uber-Jelly, featured speakers and interviews about how the Web has changed lives. In addition to our speakers (list developing) we’ll be asking attendees:
how the web has changed your life
how you’d like the web to change the world in the future
your favorite online event ever
something you’ve done online with other people in other countries
and posting our clips on YouTube, Blip.tv and dotSub.com as part of a global video mashup.
Giovanni Gallucci talked at the SEO / SEM / PPC meetup event in Austin, TX on Sept. 3, 2008. Laura Alter was the organizer. Giovanni’s talk was about how to turn social media in to big media and he rolls out an interesting case study involving Austinite Will Hurley or “whurley”. This is an eleven part series on the following video sharing sites:
The following video was produced by Spring.net of Giovanni Gallucci’s talk on “Getting Big Media via Social Media” at the Austin, Texas SEO / SMB / SMO / PPC meetup group on the night of Sept 3, 2008. Paul Terry Walhus interviews people attending the video like meetup organizeer Laura Alter. This is part 1 of an 8 part series of 10 minute clips on the event. The rest of the clips will be posted here soon and on the austincast itunes account (go to itunes and subscribe to austincast).
Friday at Central Market^chilling out at Central Market with a chicken salad sandwich and fries waiting for a web dev meeting. It’s been a hurry up and wait kind of a day.
nice day at Central Market^I’m at Central Market one of Austin’s more comforting destinations waiting for a meeting about a website design. Nice crowd, nice ambience. Reminds me of the http://touroftexas.com event we had here every time I visit. The wifi is a nice new feature, I know they waffled on getting wifi for a long time because they thought customers would waste time on their computers. They’re still low on wall outlets.
“Laid back”. That’s how Mashable top dog Pete Cashmore described Austin, Texas in an interview with AustinLifestyles at the Summermash party at Buffalo Billiards in the heart of Austin’s 6th Street live music district. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable described Austin as “comfortable and intimate, you had no problems striking up a conversation.”
Here’s the list with a few excerpts from the blog entry at Mashable:
Austin 3.0 - A website designed to give the “younger Austin Geek a place to see what is going on in Austin.”
Austin Startup - Austin Startup is simply a news site that chronicles the goings ons and creation of new tech sector business in the Austin area.
AustinCast - This site is a frequently updated hub for video and audio interviews of local area movers and shakers in the technology scene. He’s published over 100 video interviews with the likes of Veronica Belmont, Pete Cashmore, Zadi Diaz, Cali Lewis, Lindsay Campbell, and Leah Culver as well as a number of local heroes to the Austin scene.
Austin360 - This is the official New Media offering from Austin’s reigning Old Media institution, the Austin-American Statesman.
GeekAustin - Probably one of Austin’s oldest tech blogs, LinearB’ and Orion have been chronicling the gaming, business and tech communities of Austin since 2000.
Michelle’s Blog - . . . she’s a very active leader and figurehead to the new, young Austin Tech community, and has her hands in just about everything. Her personal blog reflects all the myriad of ventures she’s involved in there.
Josh Dilworth - Josh is over at PR group Porter Novelli, based in their Austin office. Amongst all his many work related projects like SXSW, he has quite visible presence amongst those in the online Semantic and AI community as well as an avid participant in a number of widely used social media tools. I was recently a guest on a podcast of his, Falken’s Maze.
John Erik Metcalf- John Erik Metcalf is a major figure in the Austin scene as well, as he’s a co-founder in one of the town’s two co-working spaces: Conjunctured
Social Media Club Austin - The site describes itself as “part think tank, part curiosity, all new media” and is a repository for all that is going on in the “business networking event” scene for the Austin area.
Some Assembly Required - a self-described “business development and networking blog” authored by Thom Singer.
The Jeff Beckham Weblog - Jeff is an Austin area blogger who focuses his posts on the evolution of media, specifically in relationship to how the Internet is forcing transformation on not just media industries but “the word itself.”
Door64 Blog - The blog for Door64, the forum and community portal for the Austin-area tech community.
If you an Austin area blogger and want to be added to the OPML file email Mark at Mashable to be included in the next version of the list.
Spring.net interviewed Will Pate. Will cohosts CommandN a very popular video podcast with Amber Macarthur out of Toronto, Canada. He founded Raincity Studios which recently bought Bryte. Will “can’t talk” about some upcoming ventures, but he does talk broadly about his future direction.
Spring.net did over 30 interviews at the Summermash Party in Austin at Buffalo Billiards on the night of July 30, 2008 and also videod the entire daytime Socialmedia Camp at the Thistle Cafe on West Sixth Street in Austin. The evening party featured an open bar, food, and a packed second floor. Brian Massey said “It took a bunch of people from San Franciso to round up some of Austin’s best bloggers and developers in one place.”
We’ll be releasing the full 5 hour session of the Mashable Social Media Camp on one hour installments and we’ll also be releasing all of the 30 plus interviews over the next 2-3 weeks.
We talked to Deanna Zandt of Alternet.org and HightowerLowdown.com at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, TX on July 19, 2008. She’s a blogger, organizer, event producer (she put on one killer of a party for Hightower at Netroots), and techie.
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and the Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. She works with groups to create and implement effective web strategies toward organizational goals of civic engagement and empowerment, and uses her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance to complement her technical expertise. Deanna also works with New York-based independent artists such as John S. Hall/King Missile, Surf Reality and the Art Stars to promote radical performances in downtown Manhattan, and is a member of the Brooklyn-based Not An Alternative political art collective.
Tamar Weinberg, blogger for Techipedia, Mashable, and other major sites started out on Digg April 2007 and in 3-4 months was a top 10 Digg user out of 3-4 million. Now she’s number 42 even though she says “Digg jumped the shark in January”. She really knew how to work with the community and she built her profile with hard work and effort. She understood what Diggers want. The rest is history . . .
Tamar Weinberg spent nearly an hour talking with Paul Terry Walhus about social media marketing and social networking. The interview is a screencast with video of Tamar speaking and screenshots of the social networks that she is discussing. Tamar blogs with Techipedia, her own site, as well as Mashable, Lifecaster and numerous other major social media blogs and websites.
NetrootsNation - 3.1 Austin, Texas This is the second revision of the third in a series of over 50 interviews at NetRootsNation in Austin, Texas on Friday, July 18, 2008. This clip consists of a series of interviews. You can get a detailed description and blow by blow at http://spring.net This is one of many more to come.
This is our raw footage from Netroots Nation, it is the second tape we shot on July 18 in Austin. We’re going to clip out each individual interview and post it as a separate video and push it out to all the social video networks in the next few days. Today, we’re back at NetrootsNation roaming the Trade Show with our Canon high def rig, so if you see a guy in a burnt orange Texas 2006 Rose Bowl hat, that’s me. Tap me on the shoulder and I’ll interview. Some of the people featured on this video series are Howard Dean and Joe Trippi. There are over 50 video interviews in all.
NetrootsNation - 3 Austin, Texas This is the third in a series of over 50 interviews at NetRootsNation in Austin, Texas on Friday, July 18, 2008. This clip consists of a series of interviews. You can get a detailed description and blow by blow at http://spring.net This is one of many more to come.
This is our raw footage from Netroots Nation, it is the second tape we shot on July 18 in Austin. We’re going to clip out each individual interview and post it as a separate video and push it out to all the social video networks in the next few days. Today, we’re back at NetrootsNation roaming the Trade Show with our Canon high def rig, so if you see a guy in a burnt orange Texas 2006 Rose Bowl hat, that’s me. Tap me on the shoulder and I’ll interview. Some of the people featured on this video series are Howard Dean and Joe Trippi. There are over 50 video interviews in all.
NetrootsNation - 2 Austin, Texas This is the second in a series of over 50 interviews at NetRootsNation in Austin, Texas on Friday, July 18, 2008. This clip consists of a series of interviews. You can get a detailed description and blow by blow at http://spring.net This is one of many more to come.
This is our raw footage from Netroots Nation, it is the second tape we shot on July 18 in Austin. We’re going to clip out each individual interview and post it as a separate video and push it out to all the social video networks in the next few days. Today, we’re back at NetrootsNation roaming the Trade Show with our Canon high def rig, so if you see a guy in a burnt orange Texas 2006 Rose Bowl hat, that’s me. Tap me on the shoulder and I’ll interview. Some of the people featured on this video series are Howard Dean and Joe Trippi. There are over 50 video interviews in all.
NetrootsNation is a political blogging convention put on and originated by Daily Kos in Austin, Texas from July 17 - 21. Spring.net did about 50 interviews at this event. So we’re going to run these in “blocks” until we have a chance to edit, copy and paste each individual interview and give it it’s own title and description. So what you’ll be seeing over the next couple of days is just the “raw footage” from our Canon HV-20 high def camera equipped with an XLR mike. This first video features Blogads, alternet.org, Howard Dean who is head of the Democatric National Committee, The Texas Observer (a publication the late Molly Ivins contributed to), the Center for Constitutional Rights, Verve, and CSpann in order of appearance in this video.
This video appears on the following video social networks:
In the next couple of days we’ll be publishing the rest of the 50 or so video interviews on all the major video social networks and video sharing sites (over 20 altogether), as well as on Itunes as part of our audio and video podcast series, and we’ll be publishing each video interview as a separate show. We’ll be doing more interviews at today’s show so if you’re at the show, want to be interviewed, tap the guy with the burnt orange longhorns hat on the shoulder (that’s me, Paul Terry Walhus) and ask! Or email terry at spring dot net.
SEOforSMB - 14 Connie Reece and Paul Terry Walhus Connie Reece of everydotconnects.com and Paul Terry Walhus of spring.net talk about Leveraging Social Media at the SEMforSMB conference at the Hilton Downtown in Austin, Texas July 17, 2008. The video is featured on this blog.
This is a teaser video of Connie Reece and Paul Terry Walhus at the search engine marketing for small and medium size business SEMforSMB conference in Austin, Texas on July 17. We will have the full video up and running here on spring.net/blog late tonight or early tomorrow. Connie and Paul talk about “Leveraging Social Media”.
You’ll notice another widget in the lower right column of this blog, it’s 
NetrootsNation - 3.1 Austin, Texas 
