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Can I fist pump you my social networks?
During the week of May 24 through May 31st AustinLifestyles.com, The Spring, BHI, and RegistrationAssistant are hosting a visitor from the Netherlands, Paul Geurts of MyNameisE.com. He is bringing the first prototypes of a social networking and business card connector to Austin, Texas. If you’re around Austin next week and want a demo, call Paul at 512–699–4000 or email terry at spring dot net.
My Name is E
The E device can be used at conventions, trade shows, and meetings, in metropolitian areas like Austin and on college campuses like the University of Texas. There are over 1.2 million conventions, trade shows and events in the US every year.
What is the E device? In its current incarnation, E is small white, sleek looking device much like an ipod nano or USB storage device. With E, you can share your contact information and social networks in one simple gesture.
Connector allows you to safely transfer an online business card and your set of social networks in a simple gesture like a fist pump or a high five. Tap two Connectors together and you’re connected. Synchonize Connector by using the built-in USB plug with your PC or Mac. It is ideal for networking at large events and conferences.
During the week that Paul Geurts is visiting Austin, we will be meeting with venture investors, potential partners, customers and forming a team to distribute and promote E throught the US and North America.
There is no setup with connector, it can be used immediately out of the box. It’s equipped with a lithium polymer battery which allows you to use it for 72 hours on a 2 hour charge. It holds two of your E Business Cards (one for personal and one for professional) and connects to RFID tags as well as other Connectors and iphones. It gives you intuitive feedback through LED lighting. The RFID tag feature opens it up the world of “choice based advertising” and integrates these connections in to your social network activity stream. It connects you to objects and to the environment as well as to people.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 31st through February 22nd
These are my links for October 31st through February 22nd:
- Texas Social Media Award Winners – I won an award! I made it in to the top 25 Social Media Award winners in Texas
- Free Twitter Designer – great tool to design your twitter background, I need this!
- Super Screenshot! – web app that makes a screen shot of any web page you choose and it can be any size
- SOCIAL NETWORKING GOD: 350+ Social Networking Sites – collection of over 350 social networking sites
- How to Make an Animated Avatar on Twitter | Tiffany Dow?s Internet Marketing Blog – It’s pretty cool, for about 10 seconds then it becomes tiresome. Sure fire way to lose a lot of twitter followers.
- Reply Notifier – sends your twitter @ replies to your email inbox
- TechFuga – All the top Tech news – Techfuga – Techmeme Digg HackerNews Reddit TechCrunch Arstechnica Slashdot GoogleNews YahooNews CNET News
- My Team Is Better Than Your Team – The Transitive Property of College Football – Why Texas would beat Florida.
- 70 top tips to generate blog traffic – 75 traffic generation techniques that I learned while blogging
- Display RSS Feeds – everything you need to display rss on your web page. Just plug in an rss feed and most of these will gen up code you can use on your web page or blog
- Tweetree – Home – Tweetree, a site that takes your Twitter account and tweaks it, just might be the reason you close that desktop client and return to the browser for your Twitter cravings. – mashable
- austinlifestyles’ favorites – Slideshow of my favorite pictures of Austin, Texas on flickr
- Austin Texas favorites on Flickr – My Austin, Texas favorite pictures from flickr . . . some pretty amazing stuff… recommended: run this as a slide show
- The Daily Beast – Tina Brown (formerly New Yorker editor) daily politics, culture and media
- CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites – Six Revisions – From personal blogs and brochure sites, to fully-featured social networking sites, portals, news sites, and e-commerce websites, Drupal has proven itself as the most robust platform currently available in the content management system market.
- tweetworks – With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter. How it works?
- iTweet 2 : Web – web interface to twitter, nice job
- 10 Great Thunderbird Addons You Must Have | MakeUseOf.com – More than a year back, Aibek wrote a great list of 35 must-have thunderbird addons. Since then, a lot of great addons have been created and some of the older addons have also evolved to become better ones.
- Going Green – Environmental Issues and Global Warming News – Green Living Tips – consumers guide to the green revolution
- Salon.com – Breaking news, opinion, politics, entertainment, sports and culture. – news source and cultural commentary, affiliated with the WELL
- Digg – All News, Videos, & Images – Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users
- Daily Kos: State of the Nation – Daily Kos has grown in those five years to the premier political community in the United States, with daily traffic between 2-4 million visits. Markos Moulitsas — a.k.a. “kos” — created Daily Kos on May 26, 2002
- Balsamiq Mockups Examples | Balsamiq – cool little mockup program to sketch out websites
- Profilactic.com – springnet’s lifestream – profilactic collects all your social network content, blog posts, etc in one place
- Whatever – interesting, funny daily blog – Whatever – Taunting the Tauntable since 1998 John Scalzi, Proprietor
- Gmail – Inbox- walhus@gmail.com – my gmail inbox
- Delicious – delicious main page
- near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi – Twitter Search – Austin, Texas realtime twitter search within 50 miles of Austin, Texas 50 results
- Facebook | Home – facebooks live realtime feed, watch it refresh continually in realtime
- Home – FriendFeed – Real-time – friendfeed on steroids, real time view of your friends updates
- Plaxo – Home – plaxo would get a good review from me if it didn’t continually scramble up my contacts. Plaxo is a mess. It could be great if they fixed it.
- springnet’s daily Bookmarks on Delicious – sites to look at on a daily basis … for a more narrow selection see http://del.icio.us/springnet/primo for the best daily sites
- Facebook | Home – number one social network with tons of cool apps, you could almost make it your blog if it were more public
- iGoogle – google’s start page you can personalize with widgets and content
- Twitter Search – best twitter search, let’s you search by geographic area in advanced search
- Reva Bhalla on CNN –
- Reva Bhalla – This Austin international security expert has made some of the most intelligent comments on the situation in Mumbai India with the terror attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel and other sites
- Swaine’s World – Michael Swaine added me as a friend on facebook and I was amazed to find that he lives in Grants Pass, Oregon and has written some remarkable books like “Fire in the Valley”
- Goodreads | people online now – goodreads is a social networking community for readers of good books, this page shows you who’s online
- Tweet Grid – neat twitter search, create your own search grid or matrix and then you can watch multiple searches
- SystemExplorer Homepage – great monitoring and diagnostic tool for Windows XP or Windows Vista machine
- TouchGraph | Products: Facebook Browser – incredible facebook visualization, really amazing
- PrimePress Theme for WordPress – This is quickly becoming my favorite wordpress theme, I used it on http://austen. com/blog and just now on http://touroftexas.com/blog/ . . . it’s truly awesome!
- How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter – Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter
- Op-Ed Columnist – How to Fix a Flat – NYTimes.com – Any car company that gets taxpayer money must demonstrate a plan for transforming every vehicle in its fleet to a hybrid-electric engine with flex-fuel capability, so its entire fleet can also run on next generation cellulosic ethanol.
- monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget – monitter? what is it? Simple. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?
- 30+ Great Web Tools You Might not Know Yet but Should | SEOptimise – social media, web design & development, search, SEO and analytics, e-commerce, blogging and Internet tools are not yet widely known main stream tools
- Social Networking Sites | Social Networks Directory – search engine for finding social networks, impressed with results I got
- 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists – 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists
- My Creative Team Wiki / Media People Using Twitter – most complete list of media people using twitter
- Where is Your Username registered – Lets you check a potential user name for social network sites
Texas Social Media Awards top 25 – I made the cut!
How in the world did I get on the same list as Cali Lewis? I don’t know but it’s amazing to be on a list of the “top 25 Texas Social Networkers” with her and 23 other amazing people. To whoever nominated me, thank you! It’s an honor to be on the same list as all these incredible social networkers.
The list was pared down from 125 nominees. The actual awards show where all the award winners will get *trophies* is on March 15 from 6 to 9 pm at Ballet Austin, 501 W 3rd St, with tickets going for $15.00.
These are the Texas Social Media Award Winners.
They winners are:
HENRY ADASO
JOSHUA BAER
PERRY BELCHER
MIKE CHAPMAN
J.R. COHEN
MICHAEL COTE
JENN DEERING DAVIS
SAM DECKER
LORI FALCON
KYLE FLAHERTY
MATT GLAZER
LISA GODDARD
MICHELLE GREER
DAVID GUENTHNER
KAMI HUYSE
CALI LEWIS
DAVID J. NEFF
ERICA O’GRADY
BRYAN PERSON
CONNIE REECE
BENN AND LANI ROSALES
DWIGHT SILVERMAN
AARON STROUT
- http://blog.stroutmeister.com
- http://twitter.com/aaronstrout
- http://brightkite.com/people/aaronstrout
PAUL TERRY WALHUS
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
It’s a great list and I’m honored to be listed on it. Michelle Greer has been really helpful to me and I hope I’ve been helpful to her. She recently had the major role in pulling off the “Twestival” that raised 10 grand for world water causes. I had the privilege of interviewing Cali Lewis as she breezed in and out of last year’s SXSW. Below is that interview with Cali.
Michael Cote made the list, he really was the person that got me going on twitter and his “DrunkandRetired” podcast rocks, it’s the best podcast coming out of Austin, Texas. Erica O’Grady is super, she really did an awesome job at the recent Mashable event in Austin and the Camp connected with it. Last summer I got to co-moderate a session with Connie Reece at the SEMforSMB conference and did an hour long video with her on Youtube and all over with her on social networking. Lani Rosales has given me a lot of great advice and she’s a riot. I hope to get to know all the other award winners better, they’re an awesome group of people.
OrgSync social media campaign works!
AUSTIN, Texas (Feb 11, 2009) — OrgSync, Inc (OrgSync.com) is excited to announce its successful campaign to raise $1500 for Charity: Water using social media. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009, OrgSync’s team launched a social media campaign to raise awareness for the importance of clean, safe drinking water around the world. The team of 25 employees used Twitter, Facebook Newsfeeds and their company blog to rally the public behind the cause. OrgSync’s goal was to raise $1500 to donate to Charity: Water during the Austin Twestival event on February 12. Michelle Greer, well known Austin media figure and coordinator for Austin Twestival, says “Big problems like the lack of clean drinking water won’t get solved over night by the few. They will get solved by the many donating in bits and pieces towards a common goal. OrgSync pooled their resources and ended up being one of our top sponsors and I hope more companies follow this approach towards charitable giving.”
Over 175 cities around the world will be uniting on Thursday, February 12, 2009 to increase awareness and raise money for those in need of clean, safe drinking water. “This is a great cause and an opportunity to unite our Austin community with cities across the world to create social good. As a leader I am passionate about leveraging my understanding of social media to help create awareness and provide people the opportunity to give back,” said Fortenberry.
The OrgSync team was successful at meeting its goal of raising $1566 in 24 hours and is excited to contribute 100% of it to Charity: Water. Andrew Katz, Director of Community Relations feels, “It’s very important for our team to give back and get involved in the Austin Community. We feel that by being visibly active in the community, we can be positive role models for our students and clients to do the same!” OrgSync’s successful campaign proves how important online communication and networking is for increasing awareness and uniting individuals for a greater good.
About OrgSync
OrgSync is a co-curricular management tool that helps colleges and universities communicate more effectively across their entire campus. OrgSync offers a hosted service that provides the tools needed by campuses to easily organize, assess, track, and manage students and student organizations. OrgSync is currently helping over 100 campuses manage their student co-curricular management, leadership development and communication needs. OrgSync is headquartered in Austin, TX with satellite offices in Dallas, TX, Miami, FL, and Tucson, AZ. For more information about OrgSync, visit OrgSync.com. To schedule an interview with CEO Eric Fortenberry, contact Nicole Andreas at (512) 238-8534 or nicole@orgsync.com.
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- OrgSync, Inc
- Charity: Water
- Austin Twestival
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Tour of Texas supports twestival
More discussion with Dr DD Faye about the twestival.com on Feb 12 in Austin and around the world. One in six people worldwide lack adequate drinking water – 1.1 billion people – and twestival.com and Dr Faye are both part of the solution to providing clean drinking water to the world’s population.
Water Shortage Worldwide – twestival.com and Dr Faye from Paul Walhus on Vimeo.
twestival and Dr Faye – water for the world
twestival – helping 1.1 million people without good water from Paul Walhus on Vimeo. Twestival Feb 12 see twestival.com – above video interview with Dr Faye talking about world water solutions at the village level.
twestival – helping build wells (Austin Feb 12 and everywhere)
Live Drill From Ethiopia – September Campaign www.borninseptember.org from charity: water on Vimeo.
Come to the twestival in Austin and all over the world on Feb 12.
The big @twestival retweet
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Incredible! Canadian music legend @DavidUsher donated the song ‘And So We Run’ to http://www.twestival.fm/ Please donate and download.
- We want you to be the judge of the pre roll competition. Tweet your favourite clip to @peterlamotte. Ends in 24hrs http://tinyurl.com/cwkaph
- @TwestivalSEA Nice work on the video!
- Twitter Groups http://tgr.me adding pages for all Twestival cities! Plz tell @1datarecovery what #tag u r using in addition to #twestival
- RT @jangles: FIR 420 published. This episode includes a great interview with @amanda about @twestival. http://tinyurl.com/d8ynkj [12:00]
- You *must* watch this. It is beyond awesome. http://vimeo.com/3095175 Great work team @amstwestival
- In exactly one week from this moment, the doors of the London Twestival will open. Happy to be announcing a second venue tomorrow.
- Cities… do you have a tweet that shows when you first decided to organise a Twestival? We want to include for Live Earth. Thanks!
- Amazing presentation put together to explain Twestival : http://tinyurl.com/djcz9d Nice work @sandeepvizedu
- Tokyo has one of the largest Twitter communities in the world! Now they have a Twestival. Spread the word : http://tokyo.twestival.com/
- Twestival.fm is on NME.com http://tinyurl.com/asm8a6 [thanks @DavidMoynihan!] http://twestival.fm Accepting tracks by artists now.
- Twestival tickets now available for Vienna, Reading, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Barcelona, Copenhagen and more… http://twestival.com/
- Very cool @PKGulati is donating $1 for every new Twitter follower he gets over the next week (up to 300) to charity: water.
- Dear Twestival organizers, you are amazing. Thinking of starting a Craigslist or something so you can post what you still need contributed.
- RT @kanter: Case Foundation blog writes about Twestival http://tinyurl.com/ajbzax
- RT: @WarrenAndrew will donate .25¢ for every NEW follower I get on twitter till the end of February to http://www.charitywater.org/
- RT @Pistachio: To the MANY kind souls offering donated items for Twestival. Contact your nearest city organizer www.twestival.com
- RT @davemorin Bill Gates: “If we improve health, peak population growth will stabilize 1 billion people below current projections.” #TED
- @billlublin if you are looking to sponsor, you should get in touch with @melitami who would love to hear from you – thanks!
- Whoa, global ticket sales are going nuts right now. Organizers, if you don’t have your Amiando account set up – please email @amanda asap.
