Austin Tweetup- August
15 August 2009What's a Tweetup? A tweetup is a free happy hour open to anyone and broadcast via Twitter. It's a very organic event and it started off with a few of us having dinner and has evolved into a full blown scene. About 100 people showed up this Thursday at Iron Cactus in the Arboretum (who took great care of us by the way, you should host YOUR next event there), here's the RSVP list. If you want to comment on the pictures, tell your friends how stupid or gorgeous they look, you can do so over on Facebook. ...
Harvard Business School Club Austin
01 July 2009Your Social Media Toolbox: Coming off the heels of our speaking last week at the Harvard Business School Club, we have tons of links to share to get your feet wet in social media. Below is a list of sites or articles we referenced throughout the day. Thanks to everyone who came out and spent time with us at HBS- we truly enjoyed the afternoon and have enjoyed talking to many of you over the days since! Getting to Know Social Media 12 Social Media Fears and Overcoming Them Now Social Media Statistics Report That Will Blow You Away Social Media Profiling- ...
Social Medians Helping Non-Profits
12 May 2009Easy way to help Social medians are well known for their generosity, especially in Austin. We devote time, money and social capital on promoting the organizations in our city that focus on improving the lives of others. This friday marks our first collaborative event and we want to issue Austin a challenge- when an individual or company sponsors two seats, New Media Lab will match that so our city can help four non-profit individuals to learn social media, how easy is that?!? Email us or Twitter us if you're interested and please help us pass the word along, we have a ...
Discussion Panel Finalized on Social Media Mistakes to Avoid
01 May 2009Final Panel Announced For the May 15th New Media Collaborative (NMC) presented by New Media Lab has finalized the panel of some of Austin’s most successful social medians to discuss with you mistakes and missteps they’ve made, avoided, and overcome in social media to help you hurdle the learning curve. This social media panel is different in that it's an open format and none of the panelists are selling you products, they're excited to help you learn what you may not know about social media as you begin to adopt it in your day to day business and organizational operations. "Everything I Wish I Had Known About Social Media" ...
Social Media – Are You Lane?
16 April 2009Are you a Lane? Lane is a great associate in a large to medium sized company, she does her job in sales very well. She's focused and dedicated to helping her clients make the most of their budgets while at the same time meeting or exceeding sales expectations. Lane is proud of her company, and Lane loves to talk about what she does and for whom, in fact, she's exceptionally proud of what the company is doing in and around social media. "So Lane, what are you doing in Social Media?" Lane replies, "Well, a lot actually, the company has ...
Learn Social Media- New Media Collaborative
31 March 2009What's Social Media? You're not the only one asking. While others are going on and on, assuming you've adjusted to the learning curve, New Media Lab realizes that you're still stuck at the question. This is why we've designed an experience that starts at the beginning and brings you current without the steep learning curve- the New Media Collaborative. What is it? The New Media Collaborative is a curriculum-based seminar designed to assist businesses of all sizes understand the fundamentals of social media: Evolution of communication Who is using social media Where they are using social media - communities Culture of communities- how to fit in Becoming and remaining relevant Establishing your presence - LinkedIn, ...
Austin Nerds Vs. Austin Geeks
25 March 2009Umm, that's not an insult... People using online tools are occasionally mocked by those scared of technology, "oh you're on Twitter? What a geek!" But what they don't understand is that I don't take 'geek' as an insult- my parents, coworkers and Obama are geeks then too for using technology. But someone recently used the word 'nerd' which raised my eyebrows a little bit... Our daughter asked us the difference between a geek and a nerd and we told her that a geek carries a laptop and a nerd carries a beaker. She then declared herself as a ...
Connie Reece Dubbed the “Mother Nature of Twitter”
20 March 2009Our very own Connie Reece was honored today in a Marcus Brown "Twitter Reading." If you like British accents, satire, @conniereece, you should watch Sir Marcus Brown's reading. As Mr. Brown astutely notes, by following Connie, it just might save your life.
New Media Lab Acquires Every Dot Connects
12 March 2009Huge, huge news! We just finalized our first acquisition, communications consultancy Every Dot Connects. What this means is that one of our nation's top social media voices, Connie Reece will be joining us as a consultant and trainer and brings with her an amazing portfolio of expertise. Read the full press release here. Connie is the co-founder of
Freelance Austin, Thanks! We had a GREAT time!
11 March 2009Social Media Business Edge In case you hadn't heard, we spent an afternoon with Freelance Austin discussing "Social Media Business Edge" and I have to say, I was very impressed with many of the questions and reactions we received during the presentation- what an interactive group! I wanted to take just a minute to share with you some notes from the event that you may have missed. I spoke about searching Google, and how to search Google for latest blog posts- here's a link to show you what I mean. Some of you asked for LinkedIn applications- hop ...
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