Excursions to Dallas Startup Happy Hour 2.0

Marshall Hymel, Malcom Hymel, Lore Hymel (foreground) Matt Spradley (background)

The startup and entrepreneurial community is growing in Dallas. Over the past two years, there has been a convergence of intellect and opportunity. Chance encounters can lead to a really good idea or even to a business partner. I have lots of ingenious friends in the startup community. I love hearing about their latest ideas … Read more

Social Media Club Dallas at Ghost Bar | @SMCDallas @ghostbar_Dallas

Mariam Shahab, Craig Fisher, Jill McFarland, Joe Hughes, and Zane Aveton

Social Media Club Dallas started the year with a spectacular event at Ghost Bar. Gleaming from the 33rd floor of W Hotel, Ghost Bar hosted first event of the year for SMC Dallas. Attendance at SMC Dallas events has soared over the past year. Once again tickets sold out. I believe much of this has … Read more

Social Media Club Dallas Event – Scott Stratten UnBookTour | @SMCDallas @UnMarketing

Andy Valverde with fan Scott Scratten of Unmarketing fame

Social Media Club Dallas hosted a fantastic evening with guest speaker of Unmarketing Scott Statten. The city of Dallas was honored to be the opening stop for Scott’s UnBookTour to discuss and promote his book, ‘UnMarketing – Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.  The event was held at Gilley’s in Dallas and this may have been Social … Read more

DFW Unplugged at House of Blues | @OCDFW @HOBDallas

marshall neil

House of Blues and Eventbrite hosted DFW Unplugged last Thursday in Dallas. Billed, also, as the OpenCamp Reunion, many of the speakers and guests from the OpenCamp Conference came together to share innovative ideas and their experiences in the online community. The evening featured guests included Gabriella Draney (Tech Wildcatters), Mike Merrill (Social Media Club … Read more

Evening with Social Media Club Dallas at BuzzShift | @smcdallas @BuzzShift

Attendees register and mingle at SMC Dallas event

Social Media Club Dallas’ August meeting was hosted by Buzzshift at Mockingbird Station. It was a great evening made complete with Neo Pizzeria as food sponsor.  It was my first SMC Dallas meeting apart from the Happy Hour at Quarter Bar last month.  I knew this would be an interesting evening and a great way … Read more

Networking at CoHabitat with OpenCamp and Proxomo

Networking Mixer at CoHabitat

CoHabitat was host to an evening of professioal networking with OpenCamp and Proxomo.  Having never been to CoHabitat, I was not sure what to expect at this function. Located in historic Travis St in Uptown Dallas, it is nestled among urban cottages all aligned one after the other. In short, CoHabitat is quaint yet contempo. … Read more

Gathering at Houlihan’s

A social group with lots to discuss

It was star studded evening with socially interactive members of Dallas’ “aristocrats.” Discussions consisted of “shop talk” on technology and networking and then veered to horror movies and the new site http://www.thehumancinemapede.com. Lots of networking and meeting of professionals took place. However, it was the guest of honor, TheOnlineNanny, who we were saying farewell to … Read more

TED – Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

Sheena Iyengar

http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosing.html Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions. For info on Sheena Iyengar – Psycho-economist: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sheena_iyengar.html http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/

Hello beautiful universe.

Timeline for the Universe

My name is Andy. I am a network engineer making it in the multiverse, and possibly exist in an infinite number of Level I, II, and II parallel universes. I share a home with my partner Marshall in the Preston Hollow district of Dallas, Texas, United States, Northern Hemisphere, Sol System, Orion-Cygnus arm of the … Read more

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