Bill Johnston
Community @ Dell. Happy husband, proud dad of 2

Join us for a virtual event: Google+ Hangout at 12 pm cst: http://www.facebook.com/events/228492630566764/

It's time for the THIRD annual CMAD

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Manager_Appreciation_Day

What to do? It's so easy: Thank your Community Manager in blog posts, tweets, hugs, or gift them cupcakes, beer, or...

Do you work with communities? This is the place for connection, inspiration, and libation with your peers. Moxie Software, the Community Backchannel, and The Community Roundtable invite community managers, community owners, and social business leaders to join us for an opportunity to share stories and meet the drivers of the industry. Of course,...

If you are in the Austin area on October 4th, come join myself and Connie Bensen (new Dell Sr Community Strategist) for a few frosty beverages and discussion of the current state of social.

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

PLEASE NOTE: ONLINE TICKET SALES END June 13, 2011. Meet the Crossroads of Market Opportunity, Entrepreneurial Talent and Leading Investors: The Power of the 40+ Market. America's 78 million boomers mean business! This exciting one-day event brings together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, marketers, and thought leaders in a unique, rich...

TEDxSF seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a regional level, bringing together innovators and inspirational speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Each year FEI celebrates the power of collective intelligence- creating an environment that empowers innovators to connect meaningfully through purposeful conversations based on CONTENT. Where 2010 was about experiences and collaboration, 2011 is focused on the outcomes derived from the experiences: Using the experiences as way to get to the...

  What's Next Eighth Annual  Boomer Business Summit: Dynamics, Deals, Dfferentiation and Disruption   What Specific Topics Will be Addressed? This year’s Summit theme is What's Next: Dynamics, Deals, Differentiation and Disruption. The agenda will explore the following topics: Social MediaYour "go to market" strategy in 0...

8th annual What’s Next Boomer Business Summit

Theme for 2011: Dynamics, Deals, Differentiation and Disruption.

The focus of the annual event is to foster a cutting-edge community to explore and share products and services that will serve the needs, wants and desires of the 50+ market. It is where the country’s leading Baby Boomer strategists...

Hi everyone, In conjunction with the latest addition to our flight crew, we're kicking off an ongoing and invitation-only speaker series for our partners, clients, and friends. Please join us for our inaugural Altimeter Pilot Series event at the Hangar on Tuesday, April 26th from 5:30-8:00 pm. Recently joined Principal Brian Solis will lead...

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Social Media & Community 2.0 Strategies is a unique event that focuses on the business value of social media for established brands, as well as entrepreneurial companies. It brings together community experts with lines of business leaders who are using social media strategically to drive their business.

Reputation is a key dimension of online identity, but the concept of online reputation is often misunderstood and abused. There is tremendous opportunity in creating an online reputation framework for your organization's online presence, but also great risk in getting it wrong. This co-presentation will explore best practice examples from...

Join PBS, NPR, Frontline, ITVS, P.O.V., StoryCorps and Blogads at the Parish for live music and a celebration of South by Southwest.

Music by: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (http://www.tromboneshorty.com/)

The second annual Tech Cocktail SXSW will kick off the third annual SXSW Accelerator program and showcase 30+ early stage startups for an evening of conversation. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the SXSW Interactive community.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, innovators,...

Join us for food, drinks and  an iPad giveaway! Join oneforty, Backupify, HubSpot and Nimble for a happy hour party on the patio at Fadó Irish Pub in Austin during SXSW Interactive on Sunday, March 13th! There will be good times, snacks* and perfect pints of Guinness (plus other beer, too.) Happy Hour starts at 5pm and runs until 7pm....

The *ultimate* Gowalla Informal Meet-up for players in Austin during SXSW. This is a fan-generated meet-up.

Sunday from 1:00-3:00 or so ~ perhaps we will adjourn to a local watering hole for some refreshment!

Hopefully there will be some spare Gowalla stuff to be found!

Come on by and say howdy to Gowallaites from around the country and the...

Please only Plancast this if you are on the list and plan on going

Can you really do good for the world and make a profit at the same time?

Come meet the entrepreneurs who have proven you can!

Learn about the whole spectrum of social entrepreneurship from leaders in the field: from for-profit to non-profit to hybrid models, and the training, fellowships, contests and investors you need to help you get your...

Does your life revolve around 140 characters, Facebook Likes, Foursquare Check-ins and brilliant ideas? Sweet, chances are you're:
1. A Community Manager
2. Awesome
3. Going to Austin for SXSW Interactive 2011

If that's true, come join us for Online/Offline - a happy hour meetup for CMs to connect offline, network, trade war...

Start your SXSW off right with some of the brightest minds in the business in one of the coolest new venues in Austin. You are invited to join Edelman Digital and friends for a night cap on Friday, March 11th from 10PM to 2AM at the W in Austin for an evening of casual conversations, cocktails and connections.

Austin DJs, Scorpio & Whiplash...

Join us for food and fun at the "unofficial" SXSW Tweetup on Fri., Mar. 11 starting at 7:30 PM at the Iron Cactus in Austin, TX. Full bar and appetizers available for us at a location TBD.  We are limited to 130 guests. (max registered but accepting wait list)   The fun starts at 7:30.  Call Jessica (@blogging4jobs) at 405.343.5751...

You are invited to the Ignite Social Media Party!   Join Jim Tobin, Jason Falls and other partners to fire up the lights of Austin!   Each March, swarms of bright minds fly into Austin, landing in one corner of town on Friday night.  This is the place to see and meet them all at once.   Drinks, eats, a silly game or two, and a surprise way...

Let's start SXSW right with a yearly tradition - predrinks at the Driskill hotel bar.

Every year at SXSW we start off the weekend with a couple relaxing drinks in the historic Driskill hotel bar. If you've never been there's no time like the present to get in on this tradition. Stay as long as you want, there are no rules. Its just...

Catch up with the #140conf Community while you are at SXSW. Jeff Pulver is holding a Texas style cocktail party Friday, March 11, from 7-9pm. The lights will be up, the music low, the energy will be high, and you can enjoy interacting in a space just right for making connections and creating lasting relationships. You deside which state is bigger,...