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Erica and Hannah produce commercial videos

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.

Posted on July 5th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

5th ProductCamp Aug 7

ProductCamp Austin Summer 201

Saturday, August 07, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (CT)

ProductCamp Austin Planning is amping up for the 5th ProductCamp Austin – have you signed up yet? Here’s where you can go to do that:

http://productcampaustin0807.eventbrite.com/

Paul Young and Elizabeth Quintanilla want to this to be the biggest and best product camp ever held on the planet.  They can only acheive that if you sign up and come.  Do it now!

Elizabeth Q is talking to David Neff about possibly better integrating or even combining ProductCamp with VideoCamp which are both being held on the same day in near proximity at UT.  I posed this question to Elizabeth today on her Facebook Wall.  VideoCamp is being held at the LBJ School of Public Policy across campus from the AT&T Conference Center where ProductCamp is being held.

The first ProductPotluck Austin - a series of collaborative “unconference” meetings focused on Marketing, Product Marketing, and Product Management topics was held at the AT&T Conference Center at the University of Texas campus on Weds, Oct 21st. It was put on by Elizabeth Quintanilla and the team responsible for organizing ProductCamp Austin, ProductPotluck is a smaller format series of events that occur between ProductCamps. ProductPotluck was an evening of teaching, learning, and networking with professionals from the Austin area.

The two topic areas for the October 21st meeting were “Marketing” and “Product Strategy”. Spring Blog made a video of the “404 session” with Alex @baldman Jones (who starred in our “Tech Guy and the Asshole” video), Amanda @shoogie McGuckin Hager (pictured), Jason @clutchcreative Sugawa, and Jonathan @j_gesinger Gesinger. The panel talked about creative ways of using normally neglected areas of your website to greater advantage, like captcha pages, “404″ error pages, bio pages, and contact forms.

Over the next few weeks you will be able to submit presentations or roundtable sessions to Elizabeth and the ProductCamp folks, and vote on the sessions you most want to hear. “If you have a killer idea or case study you want to share with the group, start getting it ready! In true ProductCamp spirit, the participants will determine which sessions end up being presented”, according the Product Camp website.

Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Examiner Social Media Lunch

John Egan told me the Examiner would be happy to feed me lunch if I’d do a video of the “Social Media Lunch” Hmm, it’s a Chez Zee. What a no brainer.

What’s the current state of sites like Facebook and Twitter, and what does the future hold for social media? Four Austin experts gathered for a luncheon panel at Chez Zee called “Looking into the Crystal Ball of Social Media” to opine on these questions. Emmcee is John Egan, Austin Market Director of Examiner.com.

The speakers in this video are:

Lani Rosales, president of New Media Lab and new media director at AgentGenius.com, both of which are based in Austin. Lani (@laniar) is an avid user of Twitter. Lani is currently specing out a major social media project in the new home and real estate space along with web developer Spring.net. ; Lani’s BATHH (”big ass twitter happy hour) events in Austin are off the charts, the hottest ticket in town!

Benn Rosales, CEO of New Media Lab and founder of AgentGenius.com, both of which are based in Austin. Benn’s Twitter handle is @bennrosales.

Simon Salt the IncSlinger and Tom Myerson were the other two speakers. John Egan, Examiner Market Director as the Master of Ceremonies.

Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Erin Ivey helping to brainstorm

We talked to singer and songwriter Erin Ivey on the roof deck of Texas Coworking about the upcoming “Austin Coffee Showdown” brainstorming session and full dress rehearsal in July. The big event is slated for September with 64 coffees from 64 coffeeshops competing for the title of “Best Coffee in Austin”. But in July there will be a dress rehearsal brainstorming session in the mornings and tour watching party during the Tour de France. The key operative word here is “in the morning”. A lot of the details are on AustinCoffeeShowdown.com and on twitter.com/CoffeeShowdown. In the ensuring interview Erin talks about her life in Austin, her upcoming gigs, her lifestyle, and about her viral Reids commercial that makes babies laugh.

Erin was recently featured on the cover of an issue of Austin Monthly and featured in an article called “The City’s Most Beautiful Women”. As an Austin Examiner columnist “ Erin Ivey explores the music and arts scenes in Austin and beyond, sharing her experiences along the way as an artist and performer. Raised in Annapolis, MD on musical theatre and voice lessons from her grandmother, Erin has become known as the “urban folk darling” of Austin’s music scene. In a few short years, Erin has played over 250 live shows nationwide, garnered a shoutout from Hollywood gossip maven Perez Hilton, and been named one of Austin’s top unsigned artists.”

You have to dig around a bit, but you can find out a lot about Erin on her ErinIvey.com website, she has quite a few “at home” videos, pictures and song cuts.  There are quite a few little gems there like this ESPN interview, CD BabyiTunesErin’s Store, the Free Random Download of the Moment and you can join her Mailing List for lots more free downloads.  You can also find Erin on iTunesFacebookMySpace, her Blog, and on Twitter.


And then there’s that viral video that makes babies laugh:

Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Social Media Club Austin - Dara Quackenbush

Austin’s Social Media Club met at Bazaarvoice on 5/18/10 and Dara Quackenbush was one of four speakers on Social Media and Higher Ed. Dara is a strategic communications advisor and founder of Montage Strategic Communications and public relations professor at Texas State University-San Marcos.

She works with clients to develop branding, positioning, messaging and strategic communications plans. Dara has more than 15 years of experience in marketing communications, public relations, branding and product positioning and has worked with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She began teaching in 2005 and strives to bring real-world experience to the classroom.

Dara is one of winners of the 2010 Austin American-Statesman Texas Social Media Awards (that I like to call the “Order of the Plastic Star”) and the recipient of the 2010 Mentor Award from the Austin professional chapter of the Association for Women in Communication.

Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Door 64 Video Clip at the UT Club

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.

Posted on May 1st, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Ricky Williams premieres “Run Ricky Run” documentary

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.

Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Kristina Garza, Diva of Austin Daily Deals, making a run for it

I sat down with Austin’s Diva of Daily Deals at Texas Coworking and she made it clear she’s in the daily deal race to win.  She just got Localiter.com – her daily deal website – started in March during SXSW but she’s already gaining a lot of traction.  Although new to town, she’s a Chicago attorney who was born and raised in Dallas, she’s quickly gaining friends and influence on the Austin scene.

You can see the full article I did on her at the Examiner.com.

Localiter will be sponsoring an upcoming Austin Tech Happy Hour on Thursday, April 29 at the Molotov.

Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Spring.net video controversy on Austin Examiner.com

How is it that an impromptu video I shot on a chance encounter at the Austin Social Media Lunch rockets to number one in popularity for over a day now on Examiner.com/Austin?

Answer: Probably because it’s with Jacqueline Hughes who is @jacquelineslife on twitter who is on a mission to highlight the plight of intelligent job seekers in Austin, Texas.  She’s getting a lot of attention! And she made some great points in the interview and the video that are stirring a brouhaha about the Austin job scene. And she has a few detractors to boot as you can see on the comments section of the Examiner article called “How hard is it for an intelligent person to get a job in Austin, Texas?”

The interview was so popular and stirring up so many folks that I’m talking to Jacqueline about a followup interview and also about documenting her public event (which is evolving) and this will give her a chance to elaborate on her thoughts and address her detractors (which are few but highly vocal).

Quoting myself quoting Jacqueline:

“I am going to start blogging about society in general and this is going to kind of be an introduction into my life. It’s not that we cannot find jobs but that we are working in the service industry to survive. My friends are not jobless but instead are working 3-4 jobs. This is not what they pictured themselves doing when they went away to college. I take on the CRAZIEST jobs sometimes. For example today a friend contacted me to write up a letter to be notarized to take someone to court because they don’t have the time to do it and do not want to hire a lawyer. That is sometimes the kind of work I take on. Friends know that I just play online all day and so when they need something they immediately turn to me for my know how.”

Then Jacqueline elaborates even further and we begin to realize we’re in on a rapidly evolving game plan, she really is an intelligent mind at work:

“Every job posting I have come across has wanted experience and well how can you gain experience without a company giving you a foot in the door.

Personally I am not really looking for a career. I don’t see myself working for a company for 30 years because I do indeed plan on venturing out on my own.

I first want to spend a day out there on the streets talking to people. Then next starting a contract career corner per se. I mean my goal was more or less a public service announcement. Gather my super intelligent friends with MBA’s and have a group standing together. It would be an interesting experiment to say the least. I am interested in bringing people together and perhaps starting our own little ventures. I have considered starting many a things but I do not have the time or resources at this point to invest 40 hours a week into something when I myself need to survive.

Anyways I am still trying to piece this all together.”

So, I’m hoping Jacqueline and I can roll with this and build on the momentum of the Examiner article which has raised a lot of questions from both her detractors and her followers.

Posted on March 31st, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Olivia Chaney at SXSW

Grace Sharington interviews Olivia Chaney at SXSW. Olivia was part of the Looking for a new England folk showcase. She’s a London based singer and songwriter. For the full series of http://spring.net videos subscribe at the Itunes store using the search word “springnet”.  Chaney on Myspace.

Posted on March 28th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Product Camp Austin #pca10 “What did you learn today?”

Texas Coworking – in addition to being a shared workspace – is also a video and media production company.  TC has partnered with Spring.net, AustinCast.com, AustinBlogger.com and AustinLifestyles.com and Dremana on a media and video production enterprise that is producing podcasts (both audio and video) about SXSW, the Austin social networking and tech scene.

At SXSW, Grace Sharington with Dremana Productions did about 100 interviews that we’ll be releasing soon.  We also are working on a “behind the scenes” documentary about the landing of the TWIT Army at Texas Coworking during SXSW (Leo Laporte did two shows, TWIT and TWIG at TC) and will be combined with Grace’s interviews with SXSW people.

We are also releasing, later today, video from Austin’s ProductCamp at the AT&T Conference Center at UT.  We have over 30 video answers to the question “What did you learn today at ProductCamp” that will be on Spring.net and on the Itunes Springnet podcast

Some of our Product Camp Austin #pca10 interviewees: Tom Evans, Karen Reed, Rachelle McKinney, Amy Kozak, Dawna Wright, Don Jarrell, Tom Baum, Melissa Muckenthaler, Louella Probst, Sue Spencer, Jeffrey Fry, David H Friedman, Chuck Marshall, Melanie Wise, Kim Brushaber, Dawn Crane, Sonny Johns, Mark Magnusson, Amanda Winters, Chris Larson, Tom Grant, Paul Young, Anne Moon, Kathryn, and Erin Young (to name a few).

Our shows, in addition to being on our partner websites, are shown on Itunes, Youtube, DailyMotion, Yahoo, MySpace, Revver, Blip.tv, Viddler, Vimeo, Sevenload, VideoJug, Zoopy, Sclipo, Howcast, 5min, Graspr, i2tv, GrindTV, StreetFire, Brightcove, iFoodTV, Bing, and more.  You can see a complete list on the sidebar at Spring.net

Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Why am I using Google Chrome today

Short answer. “Rapportive”! It’s an amazing app that I just installed in Google Chrome.  You know those text ads that appear to the right of your email?  Well this app just replaces those text ads with a complete social network profile of the email sender.  I tried to install it in Firefox but Rapportive doesn’t support my version.  Score 1 hit (for Google Chrome for its app support), 1 run (for Rapportive), and 1 error (for Firefox).

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The above screen shot shoes how it appears in your browser, this happens to show my friend, the evil genius, William Hurley who is far better known as @whurley.  It shows his google profile (which needs updating, hint whurley), his tweets, his social networks and his brilliant little cartoonish avatar.  This is far more useful to me than the ads that would usually appear there.

And speaking of hits, runs, etc whurley has hit one out of he park with his new software venture, Chaotic Moon.  He is spinning out brilliant new game apps for mobile platforms and resurrecting apps that haven’t made it yet but are on the verge of brilliance.  whurley’s Chaotic Moon’s app mechanics can take a broken down jalopy of an app and turn it in to a sleek race car.  Getting in to the Apple Store is a huge feat, why not take advantage of it!  Whurley’s deal is one that app houses can’t refuse.

I made a little 8 minute video of whurley talking about Chaotic Moon and his brilliant app strategy and plan a more intense follow up interview with him at Texas Coworking, he tells me his current business address is Seat 7A on an airliner, so he’s a bit tough to collar.  I’ll update this post with the embed of that video later today and try and catch up with whurley for a quieter, more detailed interview.  I’m no longer wondering why whurley left BMC, he’s on to something!

Our Spring.net iTunes Podcast URL is http://springnet.blip.tv/rss/itunes/ . This interview is our 175th episode on Itunes.  You can also subscribe by just searching the Itunes store for the keyword “springnet” and get all our espisodes on your portable device.

Update – I was able to get Rapportive to work with Firefox! Even though Firefox warned me the app wouldn’t work with my version of Firefox it did!

Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Kristin Diable at SXSW

Grace Sharington interviewed Kristin Diable at SXSW. She even sang a song for us called “Be my Husband”. She’s appearing at Momo’s on Wednesday, March 17 at 1 pm. Highly recommended. You can get this interview on itunes by subscribing to “texascoworking” and/or “springnet”.

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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Leo Laporte to be live at Texas Coworking

Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from Austin on Justin.tv

You’re watching Paul Terry Walhus, Michael Sean Wright and company at Texas Coworking where they’ll soon be streaming Leo Laporte and his “This Week in Google” (TWIG) and “This Week in Tech” (TWIT). Look for these shows Saturday and Sunday nights. Texas Coworking is at 200 E Sixth Street 301, Austin, TX, 78701 in the heart of SXSW Land.

Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Freshbooks Web App Workshop held at Texas Coworking

Freshbooks held a workshop at Texas Coworking on the eve of SXSW at 200 E 6th Street in Austin on Thursday, March 11 at 9 am to 1 pm. In the video, Paul Terry Walhus of http://spring.net interviews Matthew Parente who is building a community calendar web app and was an attendee. Mic Berman is talking to Matthew who is Strategic Advisor to Freshbooks.

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Jeffrey Fry at Texas Coworking “the profit prophet”

About 150 people showed up for Jeffrey Fry’s sessions at Texas Coworking, 200 E 6th ST, Austin, TX on Thurs March 4. He’s the “profit prophet” http://texascoworking.com is Austin’s new downtown coworking space. To sum up Jeffrey’s talk at this RISE event “The secret to selling? Just ask yourself what would a prostitute do.” The video is the after party where Jeffrey shared some fine scotch. He’s seen talking to Sara Romano, a beautiful fast rising star in Argentine fashion and masseuse at Hyatt Lost Pines. Camera used by Spring.net Videographer Paul Terry Walhus: iphone 3g The entrourage moved across the street to Buffalo Billiards afterwards.

Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Lani's talk at RISE and TexasCoworking hits it out of the park

On Weds, March 3 Lani Anglin Rosales with an assist from Benn Rosales gave a talk at Texas Coworking 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.

Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

video tour of Texas Coworking

Grace Sharington, TexasCoworking.com’s first concierge, takes us on a video tour of Texas Coworking, Austin’s downtown coworking place at 200 E 6th Street, Austin, TX 78701. She cruises through the facility showing the front entrance with it’s wall of flat screens, the elevator, the entrance, the concierge desk, the conference room, the patio overlooking the Austin Convention Center (site of SXSW), the commons, the cubes, and the private offices and last but not least the kitchen and break room and the server room.

Untitled from Michelle Millette on Vimeo.

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

VideoCamp Austin interview w Vanessa Zamora

Vanessa Zamora talked to Paul Terry Walhus of Spring.net at the VideoCamp Austin event or #videocampatx as it got tweeted (profusely). Vanessa is with WebMasterWorld.com where she produces video and other content. She talks about what she learned at the VideoCamp held at the UT ACTLab on Saturday, Feb 27.

Shown below, the “afterparty” at Annies on Sixth Street with the organizers celebrating a well pulled off event:

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Texas Coworking Launches at 200 E 6th, Austin

Texas Coworking

200 E. 6th Street, 3rd Floor

in the historic Hannig Row Building

Austin, TX  |  78701

Accepting New Members Now


Conference room at Texas Coworking

Conference room at Texas Coworking

Texas Coworking opened on January 1, 2010 as a new coworking space for Austin, Texas. Texas Coworking is located just one block from Congress and Sixth Street, across from Buffalo Billiards and a half a block from the elegant Driskill Hotel.  It is immediately to the right of BD Riley’s pub in the historic Hannig Row Building.

The conference room, shown left, is flanked on one side by a large “bullpen” coworking area on the other side by a large roof top terrace overlooking Sixth Street with direct line of sight to the Austin Convention Center where SXSW is going to be held in March.

Texas Coworking features two offices available for confidential meetings and phone calls. There is plenty of  room to spread out, focus and get things done.  Texas Coworking features a sumptous reception / concierge area, full kitchen with coffee and drinks, large conference room, high-grade wifi and high speed ethernet wall plates all over, exposed granite walls, a server room with servers for all your IT and web and application development needs,  and a rooftop terrace overlooking 6th Street and the Austin Convention Center.

Here are some pictures of the place, this is a gallery of still shots.  But yes, coming soon,  there will be a video tour featuring Grace Sharington produced by a noted local film maker, Michelle Millette.

Texas Coworking is in the historic Hannig Row building, with an spacious lobby and an elevator. There’ll be lockers big enough for your laptop so members can leave stuff there. There’s plenty of free street parking during the day and Cap Metro stops there. There is free parking all along Sixth Street. You can work there full time or use it occasionally as your office away from your home office.  It’s a great place to meeting clients with the professional reception area and conference room.

Do you need help with your website or IT needs? There is a server room with six robust dual xeon development servers with up to 8 terrabytes of storage each.  Some of these servers are for website prototyping and publishing and are running Linux with a variety of CMS systems (Wordpress, Drupal, etc.) and some of these servers are running Windows Server 2008 with Exchange Server 2008 and a full suite of office productivity applications.  We have a team of experienced web developers and IT professionals who can assist you with project design, hosting, application development and promotion.

Coming soon: a concierge to assist you and greet you and your clients and guests as you arrive.  Also, snail mail services, copy services, fax services, and phone VOIP switchboard and more.  Texas Coworking is all about listening to it’s members and providing for their needs.  Texas Coworking wants you to fulfill your full potential.

For creative, independent people who usually work from home or at coffee shops, Texas Coworking offers a spacious downtown office that encourages members to collaborate on projects in a relaxed and productive environment.

Membership is $250 a month. Rate sheet page coming soon for day use and special events and meetings. Texas Coworking will be part of a Coworking Visa program, so for a few days you can use coworking space in other locations as part of your membership.

Come by for a tour today.  Call Derek Williams at 267-608-0505 or Paul Terry at 512-699-4000 for more details.

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

behind the scenes of ABC's

I was sitting outside the Little City Coffeehouse on Congress when a movie crew landed and did a scene for the ABC pilot tv show, “Generation Y”. The show is a documentary-style drama and comedy that “revolves around a disparate group of former high school classmates, tracking their paths during the past 10 years and the events that have shaped their lives.” They’re looking for extras.

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

SXSW kicks off preseason with Lustre party

SXSW had their first party of the season at Lustre Pearl Bar, a little shack of a converted house on 97 Rainey Street with a big back yard, on Monday, Feb 22, 2010.

Spring.net’s Paul Terry Walhus interviews @importingguru Patrick Perrin, shows a shot of Kim and @laniar goofing off for the Annie cam, interviews the Whitney the SXSW reporter for the Examiner, shows pictures of rival video interviewer “IV” and interviews Matt with the no longer secret startup SocialSmack.com.

And in a later video to be posted here, there’s a ping pong showdown with me and Michelle Greer, tennis maven and maja playa with Rackspace.

Don’t miss tonights Gowalla pre-SXSW party at Chupacabra on Sixth Street and the Austin Linux Group tonight at Texas Coworking both on Sixth Street.

Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

Semantic Austin meets at Texas Coworking


Juan Sequeda brought the Semantic Web group to Texas Coworking for a dialog with the City of Austin about “open data”. This is part of 1 of a 9 part video series from that meeting.

Posted on February 5th, 2010 by Paul Terry Walhus

10 minutes of B roll

Michelle asked me to shoot some B roll for a video she’s working on which will show all we offer at Texas Coworking in about 3 minutes. I shot 10 minutes of which she’ll use about 15 seconds in her video. It’s nearing completion and stars Grace Sharington, Spring’s new star. I got some shots of the “Duck Tour” amphibious vehicle pulling up the the Austin Visitors Center across the street (stay tuned for an announcement on our Coworking Cruise at SXSW!), and Michelle and I met a lively English dude who’s on a film making mission around the world. He ended up shooting some B roll inside Texas Coworking as well. More about him in a future post. Funny, while shooting who should walk in to my viewfinder but Michelle Millette herself, a complete bit of serendipity as she was out for a walk downtown. So here are 10 minutes of “B roll” shots of the outside of the building and the area of Austin, Texas around 6th and Brazos.

Posted on December 20th, 2009 by Paul Terry Walhus

@laniar has another rockin' tweetup

Lani published a terrific list of the top 100 social media people in Austin which has links to a lot of great people around town in the social networking scene.

Pictured is one of Austin’s top realtors, Sumina Bhati who is with Keller Williams. She’s great if you’re looking for a home or condo in Central Austin. Hard working and knowledgeable come to mind when I think of Sumina.

Lani @laniar and Benn Rosales have donned their hats at realtors and become full time social networkers! That was the big news at the Iron Cactus Tweetup on the night of Thursday, August 13th. Full time social media people, amazing. They work hard at it and one of the fruits of their labor is a great event like this. I got to talk to quite a few folks that I’ve followed on twitter, and found a few new ones to follow.

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