Central Texas Links to Local Tech Groups and Networking Organizations
Submitted by matt on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 2:09pm.
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This is an aggregated and somewhat categorized list of bookmarks relevant to Austin, Texas, and our high-tech community at large. If you know of a website that you think others would find useful, please edit this wiki page and add it. If you find broken links, feel free to fix it or remove the item (door64 members only).
Central Texas Business / Technology Groups and Organizations
- Agile Austin - a fairly large group that has monthly evening meetings, workshops, and other events.
- Agile ATX - a smallish group that meets regularly for lunch to discuss agile software development practices.
- American Society of Training and Development, Austin Chapter
- American Society for Quality, Austin (ASQ)
- ARMA Austin - Association of Records Managers and Administrators
- Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
- Association for Women in Technology (AWT)
- Austin 2.0 - Discussion around Web 2.0 trends, start ups, and news in the Web 2.0 community.
- Austin Adobe User Group - Austin's official Adobe User Group
- Austin Advertising Federation
- The Austin Forum
- Austin Chamber of Commerce
- Austin Chips
- Austin Clean Tech Forum
- Austin Human Resource Management Association (AHRMA)
- Austin .NET Users Group
- Austin Executives Association
- Austin Independent Game Developers, Indie Game Development SIG (Google group)
- Austin American Marketing Association
- Austin Interactive Marketing Association
- Austin Inventors & Entrepreneurs Association
- AustinIsIT - City of Austin Emerging Technology Program
- Austin Java Users Group
- Austin Linux Enthusiasts
- Austin Linux Users Group
- Austin On Rails - Austin's official Ruby on Rails User Group
- Austin Sun Users Group
- Austin Product Management and Marketing Forum
- Austin Software Council
- Austin Software Process Improvement Network (A-SPIN)
- Austin Technology Council
- Austin Wireless Alliance
- Blue Knot Austin - Jewish Tech Initiative
- Capital Macintosh - Austin's official Macintosh User Group
- Cyc Foundation - Enrichment and utilization of the open source portions of the Cyc knowledge base.
- Design Verification Club (DVClub)
- Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI)
- IEEE Computer Society, Austin Chapter
- International Association of Software Architects, Austin Chapter (IASA)
- International Game Developers Association, Austin Chapter (IGDA)
- MobileMonday Austin
- NTEN Community: 501 Tech Club Austin
- Refresh Austin - Community of developers, designers, usability experts, and new media professionals
- Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
- Salesforce.com Austin Users Group
- San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative (SATAI)
- SEMI Austin
- Social Media Club Austin
- StartupDistrict - Uniting Austin's start-up community
- SystemVerilog Users Group (SVUG)
- Technology Advisors Group
- Virtualization Austin Users Group
- Williamson County Human Resources Association
- WITI - Women In Technology, Austin Chapter
Networking & Career
- Austin Emerging 100 - Great resource for finding local start-ups (Bryan Menell)
- Austin Startup
- Austin Chinese Professional Society (ACPS)
- Austin Jelly - Casual Coworking in Austin
- Austin Leadership Forum
- Austin Leads Network
- Austin Tech Happy Hour
- Bootstrap Network (Austin Chapter)
- Breakfast Club Network
- Coworking San Antonio
- Geek Austin
- Hire Austin
- Launch Pad Job Club
- Leadership Austin
- Link_Texas - a Ning-managed group for online Texas networking, and city-based online networking.
- Metropolitan Breakfast Club
- NetParty for Young Professionals
- Network In Austin
- The Outlaw List - Jefre Outlaw's tracking of personal networking, career development, the arts and local entertainment events
- OpenCoffee Club
- Ripple Effect
- Technology Connexus - A San Antonio based 501(c)3 promoting science and technology in the region
- Techxans - Technology Executives Network
- Texchange - Austin
- TiE - Global Network of Entrepreneurs, Austin
- Virtualization in Austin Users Group
- Young Active Professionals (YAP)
- Young Execs of Austin
- Young Hispanic Professional Austin Association
- Young Men's Business League
- Young Non-profit Professionals Network (YNPN)
- Young Women's Alliance
Education & Professional Development
- Center for Lifelong Engineering Education (UT Austin)
- IC2 Institute M.S. in Technology Commercialization Program (UT Austin)
- LatitudeU - Free web-based courses for business and other organizations.
- Professional Education Center (St. Edward's)
- New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
Central Texas Blogs and Info Sites
- Adomatica
- AustinBlogger
- Austinist
- Austin Bloggers - The Austin Bloggers Metablog
- Austin, Texas Lifecast
- ChipCrunch - Semiconductor Startup and Emerging Technology Blog (Maciej Bajkowski )
- CoolVerification - Thoughts on hardware verification (JL Gray)
- Customer Chaos Social Marketing and More (Brian Massey)
- Drunk and Retired (Michael Coté)
- Exponential Entrepreneurship - Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Kevin Koym)
- The Human Fabric (Bijoy Goswami)
- LocalReach - LocalReach Inside Out. (Dayna Marcum, Houston)
- The PR Realm of Matt Scherer (Matt Scherer, San Antonio)
- Salsa.net - South Central Texas chapter of the Internet Society
- Seven87 - Online marketing and customer experience (Charlie Nichols)
- Some Assembly Required - Business development / networking (Thom Singer)
- TechClicks - Spotlighting technology trends, products and other interesting stuff. (Lisa Lorek, MySA.com)
- The Spring (Paul Terry Walhus)
- Texas Startup Blog - Web 2.0 and Social Media (Alexander Muse)
- Texas Tech Pulse
- Whurly - Open source, social media, and the world through the eyes of an evil genius
Working & Employment
- Austin SCORE - Small business counseling
- Austin Ventures - See their career page for local job opportunities.
- Central Texas Jobamatic
- Mentor Graphics Displaced Worker Program - Register for the Mentor Graphics Displaced Worker Program. They will fit you into their training courses for free if there is room.
- Texas Workforce Commission - Register for and manage unemployment benefit payment requests
- VentureLoop - Connect with venture-backed start-up companies
- Work in Texas - Free job hunting resources from the State of Texas
Tech Bookmarks
- Hardware / Semiconductors / IC's
- Software
- Ayende @ Rahien
- Joel on Software
- Martin Fowler's Bliki
- SoftLookup - Free online tutorials to refresh dormant software skills (such as Perl, Java, C, C++, and others).
- Worse Than Failure
HR & Recruiting Bookmarks
- Amybeth Hale Blog
- Boston Hiring Hub (HR Blogs)
- Brazen Careerist (Penelope Trunk)
- Cheezhead
- ERE
- Evil HR Lady Blog
- HR Marketer Blog
- Job Options Blog (Options in India)
- One Louder (Heather Hamilton)
- Race in the Workplace (Carmen Van Kerckhove)
- Recruiting.com
- RecruitingBlogs
- RCI Recruitment blog (Amitai Givertz)
- Recruitment Views
- The Recruiting Animal
- Talent in China
- Work In Progress (Lisa Takeuchi Cullen)