Sherry Lowry invited me to make a video of her “All Content Matters” session at the Tech Ranch. In this you’ll see Jenny L. Magic’s presentation.
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Sherry Lowry invited me to make a video of her “All Content Matters” session at the Tech Ranch. In this you’ll see Jenny L. Magic’s presentation. How about coming along on a locker room postgame video interview with the Austin Toros, with a few cheerleader interviews with Oscar Davila. The Toros are the NBA Development League team of the San Antonio Spurs and have some great, physical players who we ask about their college backgrounds and current ambitions. This is part 1 of a 10 part video about the Austin Toros. Don’t miss the others by searching for “toros springnet” on Google, iTunes and everywhere you find video on the net. About a dozen of Austin’s top bloggers, including Elizabeth Quintanilla, Oscar Davila, Greg Ackerman and others tweeted, facebooked and G+ed the Austin Toros basketball home opener win over the Tulsa 66ers. This was a brilliant move by the Toros, to invite Austin’s most popular bloggers and social media mavens to cover every angle of their home opener. They talked to and blogged about cheerleaders, fans, Toros top brass, players, and support people. According to Michael de Leon of Toros Nation “as if the Austin Toros don’t have enough competition for ticket sales in the form of the University of Texas basketball team, a report from American City Business Journals says Austin could support an NBA team.”
Says de Leon, “According to the study, Austin has $67 billion in income to support NFL, NBA and NHL teams, but the fact that the city does not have the space to build a new stadium and that Austin would have to compete with the San Antonio Spurs doesn’t give them much of a chance to land a team.” Too bad the Spurs and NBA is not playing, but you can meet up with me for the Toros season opener and help live blog the event! The Austin Toros are a NBA Development League minor league basketball team based in Cedar Park, Texas, United States. The team plays home games at Cedar Park Center. Their logo is the design of a bull and basketball with the state of Texas in the background. After the San Antonio Spurs purchased the franchise, the team colors and logo were changed to reflect the silver and black motif used by the Spurs.
Chris Nixon of Outdoor Kitchen Supply built this amazing bbq and party rig out of a new dumpster and the workmanship on it was off the charts amazing. I spent nearly two hours marvelling at the architechture and construction of it. I also published a photo album on my Facebook page and on Google Plus page. This is our first full dress rehearsal for our sxPanel project. We’re doing previews in Google+ hangouts of SXSW panels. The panels come from SXSW’s “PanelPicker” website. There are about 3,000 panel organizers vying for a spot with a panel at SXSW. Only a few will be chosen, but we will be giving both the winners and losers a chance to webcast their panel proposals to a large audience on youtube, blip.tv, iTunes, Boxee, ustream.tv, justin.tv and more. The panel features Elizabeth Quintanilla’s panel proposal called “Marketers can learn from Jimmy Buffet & Lady GaGa”. EQ asks “Have you ever wondered why both Jimmy Buffet is so successful and not a “one hit” wonder? Why are millions of people flocking to be a “little monster” and how can one singer be so wildly successful? Two different niches .. similar lessons to be learned and applied in your marketing or would you prefer to … #fail in your marketing execution.” Elizabeths copanelist is famed Philly social media marketer Seth Goldstein.
The first ever live webcast on Google+ happened on Saturday, July 15 starting at 5:15 am and ending at 10:45 am. Michael Mozart embedded his youtube live show in his Google+ stream and was as excited as a kid at Christmas waking up to a stash of toys under the Christmas tree. Michael’s a toy geek with a wide following on youtube live. Mike calls his channel JeepersMedia on YouTube and is best known for his funny Fail Toy Reviews. I found out about this in a hangout on Google+ where you can add me to your circle Michael is a living energizer bunny and he’ll probably be on live a lot in this format from now on showing his amazing collection of toys. He knows everything about toys and may have one of the world’s largest toy collections of over 400,000 toys in his 6,000 square foot building. And he doesn’t mind trotting out these toys on his show and sharing every detail about them from his encylopedic mind. Google+ was obviously this weeks big story, sorry Facebook your skype addon was a side note by comparison. TechCrunch had one of the best explanations of what Google+ is all about, and Wired’s Steven Levy wrote the most complete accounts of the thinking at Google behind Plus Mark Coddington notes “Among those enamored with it were TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, social media guru Robert Scoble, and the Huffington Post’s Craig Kanalley (though he wondered about Google’s timing). It quickly began sending TechCrunch loads of traffic, and social media marketer Chris Brogan brainstormed 50 ways Google+ could influence the rest of the web.” Since then Arian Huffington, Ashton Kucher, Newt Gingrich and others have jumped on board. Surprisingly, the number one user on Google+ (the “Tom” of Google+) is Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg. I’ve really enjoyed my first week on Google+ and am finding new and old friends showing up every day. The invitation process keeps opening and closing unpredictably. If you need an invite you can email me with your Gmail account and I’ll invite you. Be sure to have your Google Profile filled out or the invite won’t do you any good. The most fun I’ve had on Google+ is in the “hangouts” which is a video chat that up to 9 people can take part in, in fact, I did a video podcast about Austin’s Formula One racetrack under construction in a hangout. Here it is: Who is Austins fittest entrepreneur? Watch this 4 episode video on itunes, youtube, blip.tv, etc. and please add your comments and ratings! EvoTrain partnered with the Texas Entrepreneurs Network to host a competition at the awesome GoodLife Team HQ to find Austin’s Fittest Entrepreneurs. The mission of the competition was to “identify, reward, and promote those entrepreneurs that prioritize health and fitness in their lives and at their organizations” and workplaces. The finalists included AJ Joe of KPI Analytics, Denver Fredenburg of HyperWear, Robyn Pettinger of BootCamp U, Krisstina Wise of the GoodLife Team, and Alex Charfen of CDPE, the winner. This is the full video showing the tasty Irony “sports mixer” drink sampling and an interview with Robyn Pettinger of Bootcamp U. or BCU, an interview with Matt Barker of Evotrain, door prize winners, and the announcement of the runner up and winner of the competition and interview with Austins Fittest Entrepreneur. Links The above video shows Kathie Tovo’s early evening talk to the crowd at her election returns party, you can see Brian Rodgers holding a Tovo sign on the stage next to Kathie. Brian worked hard behind the scenes to get Kathie elected and was instrumental in getting the Austin City Council to release their email correspondence via the open records act. “It’s nice to be on the winning side for a change”, Brian said, who had previously campaigned for lower property taxes, fewer subsidies to big out of state businesses (like the Domain) and against subsidies from the city to Formula One. Brian still fights relentlessly for the rights of Austinites on ChangeAustin.org. I once teamed up with Brian on the political parody site Bush2004.com (not everyone got the joke). This time around someone else beat us to Perry2012.com which has also turned out to be a joke. Full Screen High Definition version of the above video here. Ken Koym received and forwards the following notice reminding you how critical this issue is as $14 million dollars of public taxpayer funds have been pledged to make it possible for Formula One a large international corporation to ride the backs of citizen taxpayers from Austin. It seems wrong to Ken that taxpayer funds should have been declared for a business lying outside the city limits of Austin or for a large corporation to be given a free ride, particularly one that promotes car racing based on combustible energy a sciene of the past rather than concentrating on advocating methodologies, which will help all generations have better futures. Help us Pull the Shade, elect Kathie Tovo, and defeat yet another shameful tax dollar giveaway, this time to the billionaires at Formula 1. There’s a BIG uptick in early voting in this runoff! It IS a meaningful race with clear differences. Here’s our take: We’re getting into the race to Stop F1 Subsidies, Elect Kathie Tovo for Austin City Council & Help Pull the Shade!
ChangeAustin.org proudly endorses Kathie Tovo against current Austin City Council incumbent Randi Shade in the runoff election for City Council, Place 3. Our endorsement is based on Shade’s refusal to oppose a taxpayer subsidy to Formula 1 racing and her opposition to fair geographic representation for Austin voters. Read more here. Wanna help us pull the Shade, tell F1 to pay its own way and to elect Tovo? 1. Click here, print out the flier and take it to your neighbors. 2. We’ve got tons of phone calls you can do from home — call us to help! (Need to make some extra money — call us!) 3. Early voting locations — pass to all your friends. Or just forward this message to help rattle the bones of Austin voters who haven’t been voting, who were looking for a reason to! What is Empire Avenue? Strong “buy” recommendations: sarahlane, pelpinatripp, chftwt (Leo Laporte) A guest post from “pundit”. She writes on politics, policy, current affairs and human interest news from or related to India on her daily blog, http://punditcommentator.blogspot.com. If you want to invest in me, now is the best time because I’m new and I have a lot of value in my youtube SXSW interview videos. This review also appeared on Wise Marketing. Watch out Facebook. Empire Avenue is the latest hottest highly addictive social networking site. While Empire Avenue capitalizes on the very same human personality trait of narcissism, it takes the idea to its logical conclusion. Instead of declaring a “liking” (of dubious veracity) for other people, Empire Avenue insists you put your money where your mouse is. On Empire Avenue, you and I are more than just people. We are in fact, people-stocks. Strangers around the world trade shares in us on a virtual stock exchange for virtual profit.
Why should I join Empire Avenue? People sign up to find out the market worth of their personal brand and social network. You can list yourself on a public stock index closest to your chief interest for example, news and media or sports or weapons. People build portfolios buying people-stocks based on market valuation of social media activity, common interests or personal connections. How do I earn money and build my net worth on Empire Avenue? In chronological order, here is a to-do list: 1 – Fill out your profile and upload a portrait photograph 2 – Connect all social media platforms in which you are active – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr 3 – If you have one, connect your blog RSS feed to get it peer endorsed 4 – Go about your normal social media activities – tweet, “like”/comment, connect, upload videos and photos, post on your blog 5 – Join city, interest/brand and personal communities 6 – Find people via the Search Function or the Twitter Index and buy people-stock 7 – Market yourself to potential buyers 8 – Reciprocate share purchases as much as you can within your budget 9 – Chat with people as much as possible on anything and everything 10 – Participate in Special Achievement parties, such as the Royal Wedding Empire Avenue considers every single one of these actions and transactions as “achievements” and awards you points, known as the virtual currency Eaves. The more you have, the more you can earn. This is how I met some truly cool people, learned new vocabulary (all newbies get “scalped”) and raised my share price 120% by the morning of my sixth day at Empire Avenue, despite two days of inactivity. Try it for yourself. It’s fun. But if you are a blogger like me, make sure you read the Terms of Service. You may not want to give Empire Avenue a “non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licence, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with the website”. pundit then followed up by telling me: Here’s another Brit social media prof’s blog post on EA through which I first discovered EA:http://jeremywaite.net/2011/04/23/how-much-are-you-really-worth-empire-avenue-think-they-have-the-answer%E2%80%A6/ And here’s the list of additional resources I promised: http://www.rickliebling.com/2011/04/26/empire-avenue-suggested-reading-before-you-jump-in/comment-page-1/#comment-110176 You can read about Scoble’s one hour video interview with the founder here.
No drone. Burial at sea. Four helicopters to prevent a Blackhawk down scenario. Just after I went to bed last night my ipad woke me up and started buzzing and lighting up with the news. Here are images from 20 US newspapers today carrying the news of Bin Laden’s death. Google Map of Bin Laden’s Compound:
Spring.net talked to Valerie Cason of the new iphone social and location app ZeneScene and she says that “since SXSW we have had a turn around in the focus of spreading the word about ZeneScene. Learning the locals is of utmost importance to me now. We’re looking to find the most organic ways to showcase the available resources ZeneScene provides, without coming across as just another ‘in your face’ campaign. The Drag tends to be the home of many connections and meetings for ZeneScene. I’ve found the open seating, tables turned into desk to be a great atmosphere for research and recruit. I’ve found a home in Caffe Medici and a go to coffee and sunshine session. Searching for additional team members is our next goal. Of course, user increase is always of high priority- we just want our platform for the people to be embraced by Austin communities. We’re looking for locals to share their stories, favorite places, and use our app to document and scrapbook their happenings. ZeneScene brings intimacy to global location-based applications. Instead of showing pictures and reviews to all of your friends on Facebook, you have the option to share with your friends around you, see a live feed from happening events and showcase your favorite places without public posts to ‘the world’. Zenescenes event focus is a differentiating factor that I find most interesting. Not only are they in tune with local happenings, their artificial intelligence narrows the scope to plan your social agenda. Though ZeneScene can be used as a check-in platform, the additional resources available to each user- live maps, directories, photos, automatically calculated favorites, friends, and EVENTS- provide each user with a ‘Genius for iTunes’ for their entertainment lives. For Valerie, there is not a much more pleasant setting than soaking up sunshine with a cup of joe and something to write about. She’s found she works better with the option of direct rays nearby, and have found the patios of coffee shops in Austin to feed her fire for work. Valerie says that their best innovations to the ZeneScene app have come from talking with locals about what they enjoy most about Austin events and entertainment, in natural atmospheres. They try to attend as many events as possible to meet just these people- locals looking to enjoy what the city offers. Free music events seem to be the best, as they are often less showcased than more mainstream shows. Val says they are always looking to make sure the ZeneScene system is full of events going on, hence their need to have the community embrace their platform. Anyone can add events- bands, artists, bar owners, fans, etc., just by going to austin.zenescene.com As for expansion- they’ve recently developed the technology to turn on ZeneScene- 10 cities at a time. Keeping each city its own is important to ZeneScene, as they want each user to feel as if ZeneScene was created for their area, even their personality. They’re wanting to finalize their user research in Austin, and expand numbers of users before city expansion is put into action. Try it out, it’s your chance to get in on the ground floor of an emerging new app. Valerie and ZeneScene are listening and waiting for your ideas. ZeneScene on Twitter. Astrid Guillon, the Lara Logan look alike spokesperson for lenewz, explains how the unique iphone news app works at the SXSW 2011 Trade Show in Austin, TX. Twitter: lenewz Site: http://lenewz.com Astrid is from France but she just has the faintest accent. leNewz, developed by Paris-based Triviumsoft, offers a more visual way of browsing news on the iPhone. The app is built on Triviumsoft’s Eaagletext mining and mapping technologies to deliver a real time keyword map of the most important topics in each of six news categories: Sports, Economy, Politics, Life, Technology and Celebrities. Astrid did the executive summary in her native French tongue toward the tail end of the interview. Cali Lewis of GeekBeat.tv and Pelpina Tripp of WebBeat.tv met up with Paul Terry Walhus of Spring.net in the Press room at SXSW 2011 on Saturday, March 12, 2011. Cali, along with this reporter, is a winner of the “Order of the Plastic Star” or Statesman Social Media award. Pelpina recently joined forces with Cali coming from Dallas mainstream network tv and, along with a new videographer/editor Dave Curlee, roamed SXSW 2011 for interviews. Netherlander Pelpina Trip is producer and host of WebBeat.TV, a show about the latest net trends, web memes, hot sites, startups, and social media news. GeekBeat.TV is a short video show, hosted by Cali Lewis, about technology news, current gadgets, and amazing research projects that will affect your future. Cali has a passion for technology, and she works hard to find the most interesting, most compelling, most exciting stories out there, and tells about them in a quick five minutes. Cali is a “speed talker” one of the fastest speakers on the planet. The two whrrl ghrrls were really working the line at the improvised Apple store at SXSW 2011 giving away keychains that had lottery numbers to win a car. @whurley first turned me on to whrrl. From whrrl’s website “Whrrl — is a location-based, social application for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry designed to help people discover highly relevant new experiences in the real world.” “Whrrlers join Societies, groups of like-minded people with the same real-world interests, passions and brand affinities to exchange recommendations (new places to go and things to do) and experiences (via photos and notes).” Whrrl’s Society Rewards program enables businesses to participate in the discovery experience by offering prizes at places that Whrrlers win by checking in.”
AOL’s About.me had a remarkable photo crew taking profile pictures at SXSW 2011 for any one who dropped in to their booth at the Convention Center in Austin. A lot of us have multiple online profiles scattered across various services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Twitter. And one problem we face is pulling all of this information together to build a single on-line identity — be it for personal use, or to create a professional on-line profile. About.me is focused on enabling you to create your personal splash page and to quickly build a personal and dynamic splash page that points visitors to your content from around the web. And there’s more. About.me understands how many people see your profile, where they’re coming from, and what they do on your page. Since I first won one of the Statesman Social Media Award in 2009, the first year they were given, there’s been a huge shift in the emphasis. Back then the Awards went to the “usual suspects”, people who were clearly identified with the social media scene who everyone knew about. This year they were given to a lot of organizations, not individuals, and to none of the usual suspects (except Whole Foods and Doug Ulman). I don’t think there was a single repeat nominee on the list of 25. And gone is the Austincentric focus. To this year’s nominees, welcome of the Order of the Plastic Star! Prediction for the winner, Doug Ulman http://twitter.com/LivestrongCEO (pictured left). This year’s 2011 will be announced March 10 at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, 310 Second Street, Austin, TX. A final round of tickets is available at http://socialmediaawards.eventbrite.com/ at 8 am on Friday. Good luck getting one! They’ll get snapped up very fast. There’s no Cali Lewis on this year’s list, no Michelle Greer (2009 winner), no Josh Williams of Gowalla (2010 winner), instead there’s the Ft Worth Opera, the Abilene Visitors Bureau, Will Franklin (Gov Perry’s new media director), and the Free Beer Movement plus an assortment of new, fast rising social media stars (Chris Apollo Lynn of the Republic of Austin Blog, Scott Maitland of Live Oak Pharmacy, Kristy Owen of http://twitter.com/365ThingsAustin, activist Amanda Quraishi, and http://twitter.com/givingcity’s Monica Williams). Here’s today’s Statesman article about this years nominees. The list of nominees:
@laniar sez “come kick it with a gigantic beer at the Big Ass Social Happy Hour! Austinites know how to party and if you’re from out of town, you would be remiss if you didn’t come to the LOCALS’ party!” Where: The Belmont ANNIE RAY will have her famed photobooth up again and MIGUEL ANGEL will be our roving photographer, so put on your fake lashes and shiny shoes, y’all! We do this every month and the only difference in March is that we welcome foreigners (people from outside of Austin), so check in to your fancy hotel and get a pedicab to take you to The Belmont, we’ll be waiting to welcome you to town! RSVP to BASHH here!About @laniar Lani Anglin Rosales with an assist from Benn Rosales gave a talk as part of the massive RISE invasion of Austin, Texas. If you haven’t heard Lani talk, it’s a real treat to hear her discourse on how to build a social network and how to stay afloat in these sometimes treacherous, but normally navigable, waters. Her audience was rapt at attention throughout her talk, she didn’t use a projector or whiteboard. Just Lani and some folks, engaged in a session that was full of content every minute. What amazed me the most is how prodigious a writer Lani is on a daily basis. An English grad, she cranks out a mind boggling number of articles, tweets, and emails every day without fail. And she’s very, very personable and doesn’t hesitate to get on the phone with her community members and followers and meet with them for coffee. She’s inspiring other bloggers and social networkers to get off their butts a little bit and pay attention to words on the page and to the impact these have on the community of people following their blogs and twitter feeds. Lani and Benn’s major project is AgentGenius. Google it. This real estate blog has weathered controversy and triumphed to become a major force in the home seller industry segment. Focused, Informative. Over 80 article writers contribute to it including the prodigious Lani and her hubby Benn. Follow Lani on Twitter and don’t miss her frequent Austin, Texas tweetups. Lani, born and raised in Austin, Texas, is the best ambassador for the values and ethos that make up the Austin way that I’ve ever experienced. ![]() Ricky Williams, Heisman Trophy winning star of the Texas Longhorns and current running back for the Miami Dolphins premiered his revealing documentary “Run Ricky Run” to an Austin audience at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum on Friday, April 30, 2010. We talk with Ricky at a press conference as well as to Sean Pamphilon the documentary maker for ESPN films. The documentary is a revealing look at Ricky’s hiatus from football at an Ayurvedic Yoga and Healing center in Grass Valley, California, where he learns about himself. The door64 Happy Hour was held on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 from 5:00pm – 7:30pm at the UT Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, Texas 78712. http://spring.net video talked to TJ Horlacher from SnapPages, “website creation for the rest of us” who are making it easy to build and maintain a website. They’re not as big as squarespace, but in terms of quality and ease of use, they offer some advantages. We also recorded a talk from the folks that run the luxurious “UT Club” where the event was held. The UT Club is located inside Royal Memorial Stadium, where the University of Texas Longhorns play football. Erica Harpold and Hannah Albrecht, with Whitney Casey Productions located in the trendy West Sixth district of Austin, are commercial video producers who appeared at the Social Media Lunch held by calendars.com at Opal Divines at Penn Field, Thursday July 22, 2010. http://whiteneycaseyproductions.com More of these videos can be seen by searching for “springnet” on blip.tv, itunes, youtube, etc. I was lucky to draw the number to sit at their table and get the perfect interview for the day.
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