links for 2009-11-09
need to update websites faster to keep content fresh has been ever growing. Ever since the first business owner wanted their Web designer to update their website faster, content management systems have played an important role on the Web. Why does this matter to you? How do you know if your company is ready?
Dean Sherwin is a freelance writer living in Dublin, Ireland. He writes about technology, culture and Web 2.0 . He is available for contact by dsherwin@makeuseof.com. He is currently keeping a blog about writing a novel for NaNoWriMo at Novel In Thirty Days
links for 2009-10-31
awesome depiction of a woman's day, depicted by brand name logs. Don't brush this off, worth taking a look. Very creative.
links for 2009-10-25
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Click To Play Jimmy's Well Service of Bastrop, Texas brought their water drilling rig to our land at 1191 Shiloh Road, Cedar Creek, TX 78612
links for 2009-10-20
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Social networking hub based in Austin, Texas. Web developer, Web host, video production, social network badges, forums or bbs system (one of the nets earliest), Paul Terry Walhus Owner/CEO, coworking facilities in Austin
links for 2009-10-17
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Goal: To make a simple, elegant, highly-flexible, drop-in twitter search widget that anyone can use on their website/blog/profile/whatever.
links for 2009-10-14
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A wall for every work October 2008 - Registration required Barney Ebsworth’s proposed bequest to the Seattle Art Museum of 65 great American Modernist paintings is the culmination of a collecting career driven by a businessman’s shrewd analysis of undervalued works as well as a deep emotional attachment to art, writes Rose Aidin. Photographs by Brian Smale.
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Barney Ebsworth’s proposed bequest to the Seattle Art Museum of 65 great American Modernist paintings is the culmination of a collecting career driven by a businessman’s shrewd analysis of undervalued works as well as a deep emotional attachment to art, writes Rose Aidin. Photographs by Brian Smale.
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Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful!
links for 2009-10-12
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Any resident of Austin is eligible to obtain a Producer ID, enroll in low-cost training workshops, become certified to check out equipment and produce programs for television.
links for 2009-10-07
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Spanning Sync 3 is the one app that syncs both iCal with Google Calendar and Address Book with Google Contacts. It gives you even better control over how your information syncs, and is now up to 10x faster!
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Using your iPhone's native calendar, you can now access multiple Google calendars, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.
links for 2009-09-30
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A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
links for 2009-09-14
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I attended the Austin Twestival and helped Kathy Mandlestein, Director or Worldwide Marketing for IBM, with a live stream athttp://justin.tv/austintexas . . . you can see the interview clips there with some of Austin's most fascinating peeps/
Social Media Breakfast Videos
New Videos from austinblogger
- AustinBlogger.com - Social Media Breakfast -6
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- AustinBlogger.com - Social Media Breakfast -4
- AustinBlogger.com - Social Media Breakfast -3
- AustinBlogger.com - Social Media Breakfast -2
- AustinBlogger.com - Social Media Breakfast -1
links for 2009-08-30
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Magazine-styled theme with tons of features. Ready for alternate styles. Includes featured posts slideshow, different post layouts, multi-tabbed sidebar, custom single meta fields for reviews and many other customisable features.
Austin Texas folks SXSW panel proposals
- Paul Terry Walhus – Devices for Real World Social Networking
- Henrick Johanssen – B2B Social Commerce Success Stories
- Alex Jones – Managing Antisocial Behavior in Online Social Communities
- Matt Chasen – Unsexy and Profitable: Making $$ Without Hype
- Thom Singer – Networking at a Multi-Day Conference
- Nik Daftary – Making Dollars and Sense out of the Semantic Web
- Juan Sequeda – What the Hell is the Semantic Web?
- Kevin Koym – Growing Your Startup in a “Down” Economy
- Lani Rosales – Austin as a Technology Center
- Yvonne Tocquigny – Best Practices for Building a Data Driven Marketing Organization
- Dusty Reagan – Tips and Tricks for Developing Killer Twitter Apps
- Troy Lanier – Are Web Video Analytics Critically Dampening Content Length
- Matt Cohen – Newspapers vs. Content Aggregators – Fight Night!
- Aruni Gunasagarem – Online/Offline Networking in the Social Media Age
- Peter Kim – Sponsored Conversations: Good Strategy or Spam?
- Jeff Beckham – Citizen Journalism: Writing the News with a Million Reporters
- Jeff Beckham – Freelance Isn’t Free: The Twisted Economics of Writing Today
If I missed you, it wasn’t intentional! Add your panel in the comments if you’re from Austin, Texas
links for 2009-08-29
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# Keep your brand on your own domain
# Integrate with Twitter and Facebook
# Promote your own Web presence
links for 2009-08-26
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Aardvark's advice is always current, obtained on the fly from those we trust, like friends, but whose collective expertise far exceeds that of the relatively few people we happen to know personally… a great fountain of hitherto untapped information.
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You can find the full one hour video of the Social Media breakfast at MySpace, Blip.tv and Veoh . . . feel free to use the embed code on these pages if you want to use this on your blog or website, and rate it and review it if you like. You can see the 6 clips starting here: YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Blip.tv and Veoh
Longhorns Fan Day - football and volleyball
The UT football team and UT Women’s volleyball team showed up for “fan appreciation day” at the University of Texas Greogory Gym, on Sat, Aug 22, 2009. AustinBlogger Paul Terry Walhus meets up with Mack Brown and talks to some nice fans from Waco while waiting in line with 2,000 plus other fans. Part 5 of a 5 part video.
Paul Terry Walhus meets Mack Brown, UT football coach
door64.com party at Austin 360 Condos
Door64 had a party at Austin 360 Condos on Thursday, August 20. It was packed. It was a $10 cover and 2 drink tickets in a gorgeous setting on the 9th floor where the pool and observation deck are located. Since it was a hot, steamy Austin night and there was a “no drinks” sign at the entrance to the pool, most people crowded into the long, narrow inside space where it was cool. It’s quite the luxury condo, with a mini movie theater at one end of the space and a bar at the other end. Matt Genovese, how did you swing such a cool venue? By the way, you don’t need pronounce the e at the end of Matt’s last name.
We weren’t able to interview much because of the noise level, so it’s mostly just pictures of people at the event. Maybe you can spot yourself if you were there. It was a great networking event, I ran in to Heather Havenwood, who did my SXSW interviews, and Meg Strout who was acompanied by a power auto seller Aaron Smith with Motorphilia, and Conversion Scientist Brian Massey to name a few. I told Meg to check out Aardvark, because she asked me what was hot right now and I just had a foray in to this new “ask your social network” app yesterday.
You can also see this video on Metacafe, Blip.tv and Veoh and I encourage you to rate it up and review it if you like it. And if you’re in the video, drop me a note and I’ll include you in the blog post, (note at how many minutes in to the video you appear).
Watch Door64.com - Austin, TX (austinblogger.com video) in News Online | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Conjunctured First Anniversary Party Video
Conjunctured Co-Working, 1309 E 7th Street, Austin, TX celebrated their first anniversary with a party on Saturday, August 14, 2009. This is the video taken by @springnet at the party, it’s about 38 minutes long and their are shorter versions available on youtube, metacafe, etc.
You can also see this full video on MySpace, Metacafe, Blip.tv and Veoh
Or you can see shorter episodes at YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Blip.tv and Veoh
links for 2009-08-14
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Texas Longhorns football practice
links for 2009-08-12
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Mark Lightin' "Rizzn" Hopkins wrote an incredible piece about how wordpress might be the natural successor to twitter, facebook and friendfeed and one of the reasons is this sabackchan theme which his organization uses for their "backchannel"
links for 2009-08-10
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What are the people of the NY Times saying on Twitter?
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Where the Longhorns practice early in the morning and other points of interest on a map of the University of Texas
links for 2009-08-06
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SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and learn more about your relationships. Send surveys to your followers and more! To get you started or log in, please connect with us through Twitter or Facebook:
Software Advice has landed in Austin
Software Advice just moved to Austin! They’re celebrating by throwing their 1st Annual Summer Bash.
What: Free hors d’oerves and beer from Independence Brewing Co.
When: 6:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 13th
Where: 714 Congress Avenue, Suite 200 (upstairs)
They’re eager to meet Austin’s press, bloggers, technocrats and party people.
Software Advice Relocates to Austin
Chris Thorman looks foward to meeting you!
Chris Thorman
Software Advice
(512) 364-0118
chris@softwareadvice.com
links for 2009-07-28
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its industrial design mockups are equal to, if not better, than the ones I have seen allegedly from Apple so far. The CrunchPad also promises to be lower cost, and forces a new paradigm of being 100% a Web device
links for 2009-07-27
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Fans of Lance Armstrong watch the Mt Ventoux stage at Lance's own Mellow Johnny's bike shop on Fourth Street in Austin, TX. They applaud his third place finish in the 2009 Tour de France. More at http://touroftexas.com/blog/ and http://spring.net/blog/
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Fans of Lance Armstrong watch the Mt Ventoux stage at Lance's own Mellow Johnny's bike shop on Fourth Street in Austin, TX. They applaud his third place finish in the 2009 Tour de France. More at http://touroftexas.com/blog/ and http://spring.net/blog/ on yahoo video
links for 2009-07-26
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Fans of Lance Armstrong watch the Mt Ventoux stage at Lance's own Mellow Johnny's bike shop on Fourth Street in Austin, TX. They applaud his third place finish in the 2009 Tour de France. More at http://touroftexas.com/blog/ and http://spring.net/blog/
links for 2009-07-08
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impressive array of open web tools with visual logos like jquery, eclipse, dojo, prototype, etc. tres cool
links for 2009-07-06
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Thanks to the brilliant mind of Anthony Cole I figured out my own custom function, said ‘is_tree($p_id)’. This checks to see if the current page is in the direct tree (child, grandchild, etc) of the post that has the ID of $pid.
links for 2009-06-30
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feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page.
based on Google Reader and Twitter.
drupal group in Austin
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Guadalupe and Dean Keeton
Austin, TX 78705How to find us
“Go to corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton & look for ACT Lab”
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19 Yes / 5 Maybe
Who’s organizing?
Lauren
Elegant Functionality Requires More Than Hacking Bluemarine
One of the greatest benefits of a Content Management System like Drupal, is the ability to separate the visual presentation (Theme) layer from the site logic. This is accomplished by placing your theme files in site/all/themes. The rest is up to your abilities to write & edit PHP template files, use hooks, and customize CSS for use in customizing the presentation of your site. The callbacks may seem a bit labyrinthine, but by making a sub-theme you can get well on your way.
Sound tough? It is not.
Come out next Month to learn how to get started! Lauren N. Roth will be giving short presentation to get you going and recommends bringing a Localhost installation on your own computer. Even if you are an experienced Drupal developer, write modules, and have been pimping out sites for years, let’s get together, discuss best practices and demystify the design process. If you write modules, some themer needs to handle your output after they enable your module, so it would be fantastic to build a little elegance into the module itself!
Come out, ask questions, share your experiences and help others make some amazing Drupal sites!
In the meantime, go to
Watch Great Tutorials:
Learn By The Drop
Listen to Lullabot Podcasts:
Like this one Overriding Theme Functions
Download the Toolbox:
Ultimate Drupal Toolbox
Read the Drupal.org Theming Guide:
Theming Guide
Check Out These Books:
Pro Drupal Development - Chapter 8 The Theme System
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development - Chapter 3 The Theme System
Using Drupal - Chapter 11 Theming Your Site
See you then!
links for 2009-06-17
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"Incoming!" can operate over Edge, 3G, and WiFi. It works by re-routing the call through the internet, converting your outgoing calls into incoming calls. You can connect other phones together, pick who's phone will ring first, or if you want everyone's phone to ring at the same time. You can also do instant 9-way conference calling on your iPhone making business meetings on the go a snap! Features include a visual favourites list, visual call history, built-in address book, and support for both PC and Mac.
Facebook shifting it’s focus
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, gives his dad, who is a dentist, business advice and shares with us how Facebook is shifting its…
And while we’re on the subject of facebook . . .
Soon you will be able to have a username
Starting on Friday, June 12th, at 11:01pm, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile.
Check out the Facebook Blog for more information or send yourself an email with the details.
links for 2009-06-10
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analyze your network connection, very detailed and comprehensive, web based
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.
links for 2009-05-18
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Windows 7 Release Candidate: Installation instructions
So what’s the deal with Drupal? (panels and party)
via Lyn Bender and Facebook:
an evening of Drinks and Drupal
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Description
Ever since GeekAustin announced the “Introduction to Drupal” workshop, we’ve been getting emails asking: “So what’s the big deal with Drupal?” Sounds like an excuse for a party? Yes!
We’ll have drinks out front and panels in back. We’ll be bringing in local experts to discuss and debate topics such as: “Why should I use Drupal instead of Wordpress?”, “Isn’t theming hard with Drupal?”, and “Why would the city use Plone instead of Drupal?”. Ok, well maybe not the last panel.
This should be fun. Hope you can make it.
-Lynn
The Drupal Texas LinkedIn group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1812268
The Austin Drupal Users facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=92094071680
links for 2009-05-15
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twitter lists, resources and how tos
links for 2009-05-14
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twitter lists, resources and how tos
Twitter Lists, Resources & How-Tos
links for 2009-05-13
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Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. And they’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment.
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live twitter map of social actions around the world, a very useful toll for social activists who put on events like twestival
SXSW update, Felicia Day and Wordpress
I’m at the Wordpress Users group tonight which is a basic intro session for beginners. Karen Kreps is here. Cesar and the Conjunctured Gang is hanging around the front porch. When I walked up they asked me “have you heard of this thing called a blog?” . . . they were talking about the meeting but for a second I thought they were alluding to the fact that my updates here have been, slightly, majorly scarce.
I’d like to say I’ve been busy editing the 200 plus SXSW interviews that our little crew did, but actually Luke Mullen gets all the credit for that. Luke and I are starting to get in synch with this and he’s on the final lap, which is putting all these videos in to a format we can publish on Itunes for ipods, iphones and desktop high def video.
I’m particularly fond of the Louis Gray interview (alistapart), Silona Bonewald’s open government series of speakers and the Felicia Day interview:
Felicia Day (Codex, the Healer)
…was born in Huntsville, Alabama. She was home-schooled all her life and got her first acting role as Scout in the Huntsville Little Theatre production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Felicia started college at 16, majoring in violin performance, and then in mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been on television shows such as “Windfall”, “Strong Medicine”, “Monk”, “Love Inc.”, and most notably had a recurring role as Potential slayer Vi on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” She has been in such films as “Bring it on Again”, and the Emmy award-winning “Warm Springs”.
She recently played the role of “Penny” in Joss Whedon’s “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”, and filmed a 4 episode arc on the upcoming ABC Family sitcom, “Roommates”.
(IMDB). And in an exclusive bit of news she dropped on AustinBlogger, Felicia said she will be in a pretty major role in and upcoming episode of “Doll House” on ABC television.
Texas Social Media Awards top 25
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.
Note - Perry Belcher was cut from the list at the last minute for being a “bad boy”.
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.
- Resources
- OrgSync, Inc
- Charity: Water
- Austin Twestival
- Related Links
- online communication
- co-curricular management
worldwide water twestival - Dr Faye interview
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 - 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.