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”.
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:
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:
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:
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 the 20-30 video sharing sites that are carrying this 10 part video series. Click on any of the following links to play the video. Feel free to embed any of this video on your blog or website.
Part 2 of a 10 part series of 10 minute videos on the Search Engine Marketing for Small and Medium Business held in Austin Texas at the downtown Hilton Hotel on July 16, 2008. Here are a few of the 20-30 video sites which are carrying this series:
Mathew Parente with Aperio Marketing talks about key words and marketing at the SEMforSMB conference in Austin, TX July 16, 2008. His blog is the Illusion of Communication. Paul Terry Walhus of Spring.net made this video and also spoke at this event.
Mark Dobesz, Kent Lewis, Todd Friesen, Miles Olsen, Darby Tober, and Kimi Helton talk at the SEMforSMB conference in Austin, Texas on July 16, 2008. Paul Terry Walhus of spring.net gave a talk at this event on Leveraging Social Media with Connie Reece. This is the first of a series of these conferences to be held in cities around the country that don’t usually get search engine strategy conferences like this one, said Christopher Justice who is the SEMforSMB conference organizer.
Tomorrow and Thursday I’ll be in downtown Austin at the SEMforSMB conference, and I’ll be talking at a session called “Leveraging Social Media” with Connie Reece. If you can’t make it, here’s my presentation for that event. I was able to generate in the free web based Zoho Show in just a few hours today. Very nice app! SEM = search engine marketing SMB = small business
It should be a great event, and there will be some great speakers and sessions, like social media maven Jon Lebkowsky, Ben Finklea, my old buddy Brian Massey, and my new found friend Jay Moreno of Red Flame Media in San Antonio. Christoper Justice with Sparksight is organizing the event, with the event website at SEMforSMB.com. I’m sure the rest of the speakers are equally scintillating.
Speaking of social media mavens, my pownce quote of the day comes from Nick Starr: “Amazing I have 1687 Twitter friends, 4667 Facebook friends, 2000+ contacts in my iPhone and I can’t find 1 person to go out drinking with.”
Stop Domain Subsidies held a meeting at Guerro’s on South Congress (”Soco”) in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2008. Brian Rodgers gave the overall perspective of how they’re going to fight to win on the November ballot to prevent corporate subsidies to giant retailers (at the expense of the small, homegrown businesses) and Linda Curtis talked about the organization and it’s projects. The folks from Pure Rain gave Linda and the SDS database project a nice check for $1,400! They’re trying to get solar farms started all over Texas.
Brian gave the folks at Guerros a sneak preview of a great new documentary he’s working on for the project which wowwed the crowd.
Starting today, I’m going to start a series of reviews, accompanied by screencasts, of reviews of social networks, social bookmarking services and social media sites on the Spring. You can see my initial list there which I’ll be modifying as this series goes along.
Listal is a social networking site where you can find people who share your tastes in movies, books, music or games. Lists and collections are shared via a simple url like (in my case) http://springnet.listal.com and they give you widgets to plug in to your blog or website.
The site stands out for it’s tight integration of tagging, friends, finding others, forums and messaging. The “explore” feature is hot, it lets you scan through reviews of movies, tv shows, books, games, dvds, and music.
It’s a hot summer day, perfect time for a spring cleaning in the indoors. In this case, I did a cleanup of spring.net’s main page. It was getting to be like a messy room, so I cleaned it up by cutting out all the wasted space, unifying the fonts, checking and testing the links (and discarding the dead and useless links) and adding a long list of social networks that my alter ego, austinlifestyles has just joined. Too bad the twitter stuff doesn’t work very well, the twitter site sure is overstressed.
The Spring is almost 20 years old now, so it’s ready to change the engine. The ancient yapp software needs to be replaced with Drupal, Joomla, Phorum, or something more up to date. We’ll keep the old stuff around as an archive, kind of like how they turned the Battlestar Galactica in to a museum. But soon we’ll be rolling out new forums, new video sharing, music sharing and some features that will mesh it up with the social networks. So many social networks!
I hope you like the new clean look. We’re also working on an “alpha” project on AustinLifestyles that you may want to check out. Add me as a friend on twitter and I’ll add you back.
This is the interview within an interview… inside the interview I did with ijustine is this interview done by Sherry Smith of the Hope Show. A veritable AustinCast - Hope Show - Austincast sandwich.
Lindsay Campbell did hundreds of episodes of the insanely popular Wallstrip and is now doing something totally new and different, a show about news and politics. We luckily catch her in an interview on day 1 of SXSW. There will be blog is Lindsay’s clip from sxsw which includes two cuts of austincasts Paul Terry Walhus talking about Matt Mullenwegg and “wholesome, family podcasts”. “MobLogic shamelessly pimps fellow bloggers in a pathetically transparent attempt to promote itself” it says on moblogic.tv’s episode page.
Super Tuesday rocked the airwaves last night as Hillary and Obama were in a near dead heat with Hillary racking up the big California prize. Texas looms large now for the March 5th primary with 228 delegates at stake and a scheduled Feb 28th debate between Obama and Hillary.
It was interesting to see Huckabee and Mitt Romney lighting up big victory cigars and declaring victory while they were losing.
But the big winner last night was Google Maps teamed up with Twittervision. This app filtered all the twitter posts that related to the election and posted them on a map of the world.
Check it out. It kept me in stitches all last night and was tit for tat more informative than CNN, MSNBC, Fox or any of the old media outlets. New media was the clear winner in last nights Super Tuesday.
You can also keep track of the election at @Politics (run by the Media Cynic) and at Politweets. There is also a list here of political candidates with Twitter accounts.
Google has also has added an Election news resource. In the meantime you can check the latest polls to see how pollsters like InsiderAdvantage, SurveyUSA, Zogby, Rasmussen and ARG predict the candidates are going to do today.
Norman Mailer’s wife speaks at the Texas Book Festival just a few days before his death. His sixth and last wife, married in 1980, was Norris Church (née Barbara Davis), a former model turned writer. They had one son together, John Buffalo Mailer, and Mailer informally adopted Matthew Norris, her son by her first husband, Larry Norris.
Norris Church Mailer is the author of a previous novel, Windchill Summer. She was raised in Arkansas and now lives on Cape Cod. Her husband of thirty-one years, Norman Mailer, died just days after this talk.
On Menla Mountain (After “Hiking in the Catskills with Robert Thurman” — July 2007)
Part 1 of 6 (5 more installments to come)
In warped and corrugated layers of sedimentary rock, White limestone ledges splotched with lichen and green moss Protrude from wooded slopes laid down by life and growth, Decay and death — the lifeless underlayer of support For evolution of conscious mind — while only sparsely Open to the light. Eons of subterranean force, fire, and lava flow, Tectonic clash upheaving mountain range, Lie barely noticed under mere millennia Of cellular striving and expansive thought.
We’re working with Redbud Sports in Austin, Texas and the plans are to bring you many athletes and sports events around Austin. Also, you can see our feed at austincast.com
NetrootsNation - 3.1 Austin, Texas 
