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pushed videos from GeekAustin at Union Park last night to http://ping.fm/crJvX & video sites keyword: austinblogger

streaming live at OneWebDay in Austin, Texas at http://ping.fm/IplxM

cnn’s Ali and Poppy showed my tweet and answered by mortgage question, even highlighted it! http://spring.net/blog/

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.

at jelly austin at cafe caffeine on mary street in s austin… today is both onewebday & pirate day. Orgggg!

Activities all day long! Uber-Jelly Jam Barcampian Melange

 http://wiki.workatjelly.com/One+Web+Day+Uber+Jelly+at+Cafe+Caffeine+-+Monday,+Sept+22nd

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.

- by way of Jon Lebkowsky and refresh-austin

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:

Video 11 part series on YouTube, MySpace, Google, Revver, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

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).

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still sitting at Central Market

microblogging: waiting for a meeting to start in one minute with Terry. At Central Market on N Lamar where it’s quieting down after a big rush

status: working on laptop at Central Market on a warm afternoon under the awning. checking out chronicle too

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.

testing out profilactic integration with ping.fm . . . they have a “post something” button on profilactic it turns out

adding ping.fm to sidebar on http://spring.net/blog and to http://ping.fm/AV8Ne - also adding profilactic sidebar

“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 6^th Street live music district.  Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable described Austin as “comfortable and intimate, you had no problems striking up a conversation.”

Mashable put together a list of Austin’s most important technology blogs and AustinCast.com – sister site of AustinLifestyles.com – wound up on that list in some pretty great company.

Here’s the list with a few excerpts from the blog entry at Mashable:

1. Austin 3.0 - A website designed to give the “younger Austin Geek a place to see what is going on in Austin.”
2. 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.
3. 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.
   
4. Austin360 - This is the official New Media offering from Austin’s reigning Old Media institution, the Austin-American Statesman.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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.
10. Some Assembly Required - a self-described “business development and networking blog” authored by Thom Singer.
11. 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.”
12. 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.

Download Now! (OPML) (import this into your favorite feed reader)

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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.

Watch the full hour on AustinCast.com/Blog

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.

Deanna Zandt Interview at Netroots Nation

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.

She’s on all the social networks at friendfeed.com/deanna , twitter/randomdeanna,  deanna.swurl.com/timeline , facebook as facebook.com/people/Deanna_Zandt/550566175, and linkedin.com/in/deannazandt . . . as I mentioned she put on an oustanding event with Jim Hightower, a party which Spring.net and Austincast.com chronicled elsewhere on this blog and all over the video sharing sites.  This video can be found on video on YouTube, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Sclipo and Howcast (click on any of these to play it).

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 Deanna Zandt interview with Austincast.com and Spring.net at Netroots nation: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download

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.

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Paul Terry Walhus - spring.net - interviews David with PublicCitizen, Scott with wakeupwalmart, amplafi.com, Gabrielle of Sunlight Foundation, Patrick Moore badge flags, nvic.org, Elizabeth of igpublishing, Chris Johnson of Medsavers and Jim Hightower and Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco.

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.

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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.

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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:

MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Blip.tv, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

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”.

YouTube, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast

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Mike Volpe, VP Marketing of HubSpot.com talks about how to use social networks and media to convert leads into customers. Christopher Justice, SEOforSMB.com introduces Mike. spring.net produced this video.

SEMforSMB - 11 Search Engine Marketing event Austin, TX
Darby Tober talks at the SEMforSMB conference in Austin, TX. She’s a Longhorn from the University of Texas who now works as a Senior Natural Search Specialist for Apogee Search. She understands the inner workings of search engines.

This is part two of a snippet of Darby’s talk at SEMforSMB, the Christopher Justice event at the luxurious Hilton Hotel in downtown Austin, right across the street where legions of bloggers and vloggers assemble every March for SXSW.  The Darby explains it, “natural search” is everything that isn’t paid search.

Today, I’ll be giving my talk at SEMforSMB with Connie Reece on “Leveraging Social Media”.  Today on google, I think I racked up more than just a few hits for the phrase “semforsmb” so I might use this video series as a case study.  This morning I see that my video series on SEOforSMB has 19 out of the top 20 google search results for “seoforsmb”.  Try it out, go to google and key in that phrase.  My talk is at 10 am CST today and I’ll try and stream it live on austincast.com

Christopher Justice has done a remarkable job with this conference, and if it comes to a city near you don’t miss it!  He has truly assembled some of the most knowledgeable people in Search Engine Marketing who really understand the needs of small business.

Christopher Justice and I truly agree on one thing: the iphone2 sucks!  Every now and then in the video series you’ll hear some crackling static.  That’s the iphone that was in my pocket!  I won’t be carrying it today, so the videos I shoot today at the conference will have much crisper audio.  I had to completely cut the Jason Flenniken video out of the series since the audio was so bad because of iphone interference.  Christopher said he’s going to give his away as a gift to someone and keep his iphone 1.

Also, my apologies to Chris for diluting the search results for SEMforSMB.  I had no idea I was going to have 19 out of the top 20 google hits!

Anyway, here’s more from Darby Tober at her talk on natural search which you can also find at:

Yahoo, MySpace, Google, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Howcast and Vimeo

Starting later in the day for the next four days, I’ll be covering the NetRoots Nation conference just across the street from the Hilton and the Austin Convention Center with an official press crew consisting of Brian Rodgers (see video of him speaking at Guerros in another recent spring.net/blog post), Nettie Hartsock, and Dorothy Epp. Hillary and Nancy Pelosi will be there, plus legions of top political bloggers and organizers from across the country.

I hope to get a few more interviews today at SEMforSMB.

SEMforSMB - 9 Search Engine Marketing event Austin, TX
Darby Tober is “Senior Natural Search Specialist” for Apogee Search. She’s a Longhorn, a grad of the University of Texas and an expert in natural search. She’s proficient in xhtml, css, php, and mysql.

This is part 1 of a 2 part video on Darby’s talk at the SEOforSMB conference in Austin, TX which is published on the following video sharing sites:

YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion and Blip.tv

SEMforSMB - 8s Search Engine Marketing event Austin, TX
Tina Schweiger passes out sheets of logos, scissors and glue and leads attendees at SEMforSMB on an exercise in identity. Tina is President and Creative Director of Spoonbend.

This video is published on the following social video services:

YouTube, Metacafe, Google, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv and Sclipo

SEMforSMB - 3 Search Engine Marketing event Austin, TX
Mathew Parente of Aperio Marketing talks at the SEMforSMB conference in Austin, Texas on July 16, 2008. Paul Terry Walhus of http://spring.net gave a talk at this event on Leveraging Social Media and made this video.

These are a few of