I am so happy at how many people showed up today at the first inaugural Austin Blood Drive Tweetup. I spoke with many staff members at the Blood and Tissue Center, and they all agreed that the Tweetup more doubled their traffic that day and brought in more first time donors than they had […]

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I wrote this press release for TakesAllTypes.org. They are all about the Blood Drive Tweetup. If you want to spread the news about the Blood Drive Tweetup, feel free to use it in a blog, for a newspaper, or whatever form of communication you can use to spread the word about it or […]

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**Note: this is not a stock image. This is my sister Deb and my niece Zoe. I love them very much and want my sister to overcome host vs. graft disease.
38 people.
38 people are responsible for saving my sister Deb’s life. She underwent 23 blood transfusions and 15 bags of platelets […]

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Foo Camp. TED. Michael Arrington’s Twitterfeed. None of these are as exclusive as the Tweetup Blood Drive occurring in Austin, Texas on Thursday, July 3rd from 10 am to 4 pm at the Blood Center of Central Texas.
Why is this event so exclusive? If you go to the reservation list, there […]

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Yesterday was a full day for me at Innovation Camp and the Conjunctured Coworking Space opening. I can’t imagine what it was like for the guys at Conjunctured though. Unfortunately, John Erik Metcalf was sick, but I assure him both events were successes.
Why do I say that these events plant seeds?
Innovation Camp […]

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One of my favorite films of all times is “The Big Lebowski”. When I heard Jason McElweenie of Schipul Web Marketing fame was having a Lebowski Bash at the Caroline Collective, I felt compelled to check it out.
I have to admit, I felt a little weird about driving to Houston for it. After all, […]

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I have known Lynn for some time now. Lynn totally saved my life (truth), so it makes me happy when the GeekAustin parties are successful.
Yesterday proved no exception. It was a great format. The people who wanted to discuss the semantic web could, while others who just wanted to socialize could do […]

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What happens when you take
1.) 30 Burmese refugees in who don’t have cars to go anywhere and
2.) Texas heat (a given in the summer)
and give those refugees 250 water balloons?
You get THIS!
Outta School Super FunFest from Michelle Greer on Vimeo.
Check out Grant Hutchins’s pics on Flickr. Too awesome!
Many thanks to Grant and Josh Seaver […]

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I ran into Phil Wheat from Microsoft at the Maker Faire Town Hall meeting yesterday. He mentioned the Green Technology Alliance meeting on June 3rd. I often feel networking events can accomplish more. As early adopters and frankly, incredibly fortunate people, we should feel obliged to use the technology we have to […]

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*Which one of these is not true?
The Boom Boom Room is:
a.) The burlesque-style back room at GeekAustin’s newest venue, Union Park.
b.) The place where I hugged a person in a giant Elmo costume and ran into the Big Bad Wolf.
c.) Full of pictures of scantily clad women.
d.) Always crowded, but accessible via a secret entrance […]

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