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Kristin Diable at SXSW

Paul Terry Walhus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:14:12 +0000

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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Leo Laporte to be live at Texas Coworking

Paul Terry Walhus — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:14:42 +0000

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.

Freshbooks Web App Workshop held at Texas Coworking

Paul Terry Walhus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:29:37 +0000

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.

Jeffrey Fry at Texas Coworking “the profit prophet”

Paul Terry Walhus — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:12:44 +0000

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.

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

Paul Terry Walhus — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:28:41 +0000

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.

video tour of Texas Coworking

Paul Terry Walhus — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:06:18 +0000

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.

VideoCamp Austin interview w Vanessa Zamora

Paul Terry Walhus — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:08:19 +0000

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:

Texas Coworking launches at 200 E 6th, Austin

Paul Terry Walhus — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:18:32 +0000

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

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.

SXSW kicks off preseason with Lustre party

Paul Terry Walhus — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:12:21 +0000

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.

Semantic Austin meets at Texas Coworking

Paul Terry Walhus — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:08:24 +0000

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.