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Blogger Lounge at SXSW 2012

  For the past five years, the Blogger Lounge at SXSW has served as the hub for great minds and friends to celebrate innovation and collaboration. At SXSW 2012, the Samsung Blogger Lounge was hosted by TechSet’s Stephanie Agresta and … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Quintanilla previews her Lady Gaga & marketing SXSW panel

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 … Continue reading

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Astrid Guillon explains lenewz

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 … Continue reading

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Cali and Pelpina at SXSW

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 … Continue reading

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Leo crowdsurfs at SXSW

Leo Laporte – and this is amazing – what a cool stunt – crowdsurfs the Diggnation party at Stubbs with a 20 pound netcasting back pack on. On a less sensational note, Leo will be back at Texas Coworking tonight … Continue reading

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about.me at SXSW

AOL’s About.me had a remarkable photo crew taking profile pictures at SXSW 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 … Continue reading

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Trashed and Burned tailgate bbq rig

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 … Continue reading

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Austins Fittest Entrepreneur

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 … Continue reading

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Kathie Tovo wins runoff for Austin City Council

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 … Continue reading

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Erin Ivey brainstorming Austin Coffee Showdown

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 … Continue reading

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ZeneScene iphone app has arrived in Austin

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 … Continue reading

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whrrl ghrrls work Apple store line

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 — … Continue reading

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Statesman Social Media Awards huge shift

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 … Continue reading

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rally at the Texas Capitol for Wisconsin

AUSTIN – Springnet — Demonstrators in Austin, Texas showed their support for the protests in Wisconsin by holding an energetic rally at the state Capitol. Several hundred protesters attended the event in Austin Saturday, Feb 26, 2011. The pro-union crowd … Continue reading

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Spring BASHH coming March 10 to Belmont

@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!” … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 Texas Coworking opened on January 1, 2010 as a new coworking space for Austin, Texas. Texas Coworking is … Continue reading

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10 minutes of B roll at Texas Coworking on 6th

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 … Continue reading

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