This is a great week for folks in the social sphere. Use your social media mojo to improve people's offline lives with the Austin Twestival, spend a day networking with your fellow bloggers at BlogathonATX, and grab a real beer with your virtual friends at BASHH.
October 15, 6:30 p.m.
Dell Parmer South Campus - Building 2
701 East Parmer Lane
Join us for Pizza and an open conversation on getting value out of social data. Whether that's monetary value, product development value, or customer service value, the analysis and information needs to translate into better outcomes. Bring your appetite and ideas as we explore the value of social data.
October 16, 4:30 p.m.
Austin Convention Center
500 East Cesar Chavez Street
This month we're teaming up and sponsoring part of Innotech's eMarketing Summit. We'll feature a session by Spike Jones titled, "Embracing and Empowering the Fans Who Love You the Most." The best advertising happens when other people sing your praises to their friends and family. And ambassador/advocacy programs are a great way to ignite excitement and conversation around your brand. They aren't loyalty programs and they aren't couponing programs. After all, an ambassador is a messenger of goodwill. In this engaging, humorous talk, we'll explore real life examples of what works and what doesn't.
October 16, 6:00 p.m.
Molotov Lounge
719 West 6th Street
Twestival is the largest grassroots social media fundraising initiative in the world. We are a global movement that uses social media for social good, empowering communities around the world to organize one-of-a-kind offline events in support of a great local cause of their choice. All events are 100% volunteer-run, and all ticket sales and donations go directly to the projects they support.
October 17, 10:00 a.m.
OAG Conference room 205
300 West 15th St
Join us for a discussion led by Roy Davis, Manager in the Security Practice at Sogeti USA. He is a Software Engineering graduate from Purdue University with over 17 years of experience with computer software and systems architecture, software development, team management and digital security. He is a Certified HIPAA Security Specialist, a Certified Ethical Hacker, a Second Degree black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do. In addition, for the past five years Roy has been a volunteer coach for teams of middle school students competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Competition, which encourages students to pursue a career in fields pertaining to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
October 17, 7:00 p.m.
The Brew Exchange
706 West 6th Street
BASHH is Austin's relaxed mixer filled with professionals of all backgrounds that feel awkward knowing each other online but not offline. The ties come off a 7pm, and there are no speakers or panels, no lame pitches, no egos; all are welcomed to relax and have happy hours! EVERYONE is invited from all backgrounds and professions - invite a friend or ten.
October 17, 7:00 p.m.
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street, 16th Floor
Join us for a presentation by Gerald Bailey, President & Founder, Snakehead Software.
You're an indie developer on the way to making the next blockbuster app. With multiple markets in the mix, how can optimize your content and generate revenue from users? Gerald will share tips on how to make it big as an indie and build a sustainable mobile business.
October 18, 7:30 a.m.
ACES Building at The University of Texas at Austin
201 East 24th Street
The 11th annual Texas Wireless Summit continues the tradition of providing a forum for industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies and business models that will shape the industry over the upcoming two to three years. Co-hosted by the Austin Technology Incubator and The University of Texas at Austin's Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), The Summit has direct access to cutting edge research and innovations from industry leaders, investors and startups. The Texas Wireless Summit is a keynote and panel driven discussion that enables the speakers and audience to engage to drive the conversation forward.
October 19, 9:00 p.m.
Tech Ranch Austin
9111 Jollyville Road
BlogathonATX is an annual day-long event facilitating blogging, collaboration, tech support and roundtable discussions led by Austin's brightest blogging experts and social media enthusiasts. All levels welcome! Experienced Blogger? Come join your blogging colleagues and share information on the latest trends. New Blogger? We have a staff dedicated to helping you with technical questions as you ease your way into the blogging waters. Blog curious? Come see what all the fuss is about. While many people come to BlogathonATX to write, just as many come for all the other activities and great socializing.
October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Austin Technology Incubator
3925 West Braker Lane, #3
The idea of 3 Day Startup is simple: start a technology company over the course of three days. We rent work space for an entire weekend, invite 40 students from a wide range of disciplines, cater food and caffeine, select the strongest ideas for a software startup during the Friday brainstorming session, and release a minimal prototype by Sunday night. The goal is to build enough momentum among a network of motivated people to sustain the company beyond the weekend. This is an opportunity for you to see the caliber of our participants and what promises to be an impressive set of pitches and prototypes for new companies. We hope to share with you our vision of providing young entrepreneurs and students the opportunity to experience what its like to get their hands dirty working at a technology startup.
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