Cocktails with Courtney in Austin was hotter than ever --
and not just because of the famous Austin heat. Sponsored by The Net-Worker,
this event drew over 150 industry-related CEOs, managers, artists, webcasters
and technology-related professionals. Held at the SpeakEasy on Wednesday,
August 4th, we had food from Wholefoods(and the dot com) and once again
Gundlach Bundschu, that lovely family-owned vineyard in California, provided
some fine wines for the night. ClickHear set up a full stage for webcasting the
entire party, and MSI Austin also prepared some delicious treats for the
guests. And when the hors d'oeuvres ran out, we ordered in more pizzas! I got
to meet Hugh Forrest, Event Director for the SXSW conference and Karen Johnson
of The Loomis Group. Shane Cook of 1stBuy.com devoted much of his evening to
taking digital photographs of the event. Glenn Birk, Terrell Lewis, Steve
Cunningham and Gary Fortlin of MSI Austin came by to meet other new media
Austinites. I'd been in their facility earlier that day for a mind-blowing tour
-- I literally almost TOUCHED THE INTERNET! Wow...(more on this later) Carrie
Beaton and Ken Perry of Renaissance, Cheryl Seeman of RJ Kolar and Joe McLean
of Computer Moms came by. A great group of NetWorkers like executive publisher
Marc Bruneman and editors Amy Davis, Stacy Short, Stephanie Dauphin came by for
some networking. Scott Miller and Melissa Windgard-Philips of PC Order and Marc
Armstrong of Pencom and Elizabeth Billups of SpringBok PR were out for the fun
night. Other guests who came were Dean Patton of Tidal Software, Troy Miller of
Single Cell Productions, Giuseppe Ferrigno of MedStat, Chris Treadaway of
Stratfor, Mike Morrison of Activerse and Michael Ho of Trilogy. Qwest was
represented by Patrick Rohrbough and Jenny Mossman; Bill Kleinebecker and David
Smith came from Technology Futures; and Clay Goodwin (a regular) of House of
Moves and Rosie Vonzurmuehlen of Alchemy Studios (another regular) also showed
up in support of the Austin Cocktails. Even the FG Squared top-tier crew,
including Jason Fellman, Steve Golby, Doug Collins and a few others came by
after a private dinner to check out the scene. Brent Davis of New England
Financial and Craig Negoescu of Frogdesign were some of the new guests, and
what was personally encouraging was hearing from many people that they'd heard
about the cocktail party from several people. The word spreads quickly and
hopefully the good spirits of the fun night did too!
* Check out Cyber Scene contributors Will Kreth's
(Agillion) and Bill Holloway's (Antera Consulting) notes on the scene too!
* And don't miss the WEBCAST SHOW, Compliments of
ClickHear!
