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Six Lounge Mezzanine
Tuesday, 7 – 9:30pm
RSVP (not necessary) here: budurl.com/1108
The Austin Internet Marketing Mixer sounds cool: laid-back mingling with other internet-savvy types, exchanging business cards, meeting new people. Don’t know much more about it … if you go, report back to me!
Tonight, 7-9:30pm @ Six Lounge (4th & Colorado)
Tomorrow: Texas Exes Austin Young Alumni Group Happy Hour
Wednesday, October 15 from 5-8pm at Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub (9012 Research Blvd)
Come with friends to meet new people and hang out with fellow Longhorn fans! There will be drink specials and a live performance by LC Rocks, the 80s cover band, at 9:30. Everyone is welcome – Texas Exes members, non-members, and guests.
Click here for more information and to see who’s going.
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You know how we can never find anything cool to do on Tuesdays? Cameron Hughes wine (do you know their story?) and Austin Woman magazine are hosting a networking event at Land Rover this Tuesday featuring Jessica Kogan, one of the founders of Cameron Hughes wine. From 6-8pm, the event features tons of networking opportunities and wine tasting opportunities … doesn’t get much better than that!
Austin Woman magazine event
I know not everyone out there freelances, and not everyone who freelances wishes for coworkers. I am a freelancers but don’t wish for coworkers at all, actually, as I enjoy working by myself. BUT it is fun to be around other creatives and in a work environment, hence the nationwide co-working trend. The other night at the mashable event (social networking), I met one of the guys who started Conjunctured, the coworking house on East 7th. It’s gotten some TV news coverage and was the first of its kind in Austin, though now there’s a second coworking space planned for downtown called LaunchPad.
Anyway, the Grand Opening is this Saturday and totally open to everyone. The invite is on facebook. I think the concept is cool, and free, open parties are always cool for meeting new people and exploring new things!
(512) Brewing officially released its first beers, the WIT and the Pale, into the wild today!
The (512) WIT is available now at the Draught House Pub and Brewery on Medical Parkway. The (512) PALE is currently available at Uncle Billy’s Brew & Que on Barton Springs Road. If I didn’t have so many events tonight and tomorrow, I’d be at one of those two to try this beer out …
They haven’t announced the date for the Grand Opening Tour and Tasting, but the website said “coming in the next couple of weeks.” I’m excited and will keep you posted!
As far as tonight goes, I’m heading to Buffalo Billiards for the mashable event I talked about a few days ago, missing out on Wednesday Zilker volleyball. 
So I went to an Acton MBA luncheon Friday (the entrenpreneurial MBA, they say), and I met some cool people, one of whom runs a list for young professionals called The Outlaw List. His last name is seriously Outlaw–how cool is that?
Anyway, the list is all about networking–apparently Mr. Outlaw himself is a networker extraordinaire (and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting him, so I’d believe it) and is all about getting people in Austin connected to others. I’m for it!
The other thing I wanted to write about, that I saw in The Outlaw List email but also have been thinking about for a few weeks now, is Summer Mash Austin. Mashable.com is THE site for social networking news, and they host a social-networking get-together in select cities around the country, Austin being one of them. It’s this coming Wednesday at Buffalo Billiards. The $18 ticket includes bar food, drink tickets, chances to play games like Wii and Rock Band (is that still cool enough for people to advertise it?), and the priceless opportunity to meet other cool Mashables people (nerds).
Seriously, I’m really excited for the event. It’s like a night of SXSW interactive in July instead of March. Even if you’re busy this Wednesday, make sure to check out mashable.com for all your social networking news … it’s not geeky, it’s the future. 
As I have experienced the business world–and do take into account that my business is the media–I have come to the conclusion that it is almost entirely about who you know. That said, if you know someone but the quality of your work is shoddy, it won’t help you at all. But frankly, if you don’t know someone and you have awesome work, there’s a very small chance that anyone will ever see it. You have to be tough and tenacious and, well, meet people!
Which brings me to tonight’s activity: the mediabistro.com all-media party. This is an event set up for professionals in the media only (no interns or students) by the journalists’ go-to site mediabistro. The site has become the hub of journalism news, industry scoop, and job postings. Anyway, everyone who is anyone in Austin media has made an appearance at one of these happy hours or another.
And I, a writer who has been back in Austin for just over a year, have been to every single one of these happy hours. And at every single one, I have met someone who has gotten me a assignment or assignment lead. Looking back, I’m kind of amazed. Moral of the story: go network!
Tonight’s all-media party is at Cedar Door from 5:30-7:30. Or 6-8. I got two conflicting emails, so I’ll probably go from 6-7:30.
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