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Hey Gang. I did this in 2009 and was blown away. Big fan of this program. This is the 2011 version.

Leadership Austin’s Experience Austin is a great way to further your knowledge of Austin issues and strengthen your engagement with the community. These days, community connections are becoming all the more essential in both our business and civic spheres – and this is a wonderful opportunity to build new relationships, learn about Austin’s critical issues, and find out more about how we can best serve our community.
Experience Austin consists of 5 program sessions, and is a must for anyone who values networking and a deep understanding of their community as critical for success.

Participants will:

• Join a select group (limited to 24) for unprecedented access to the latest information about Austin’s key issues from top community, business and arts leaders.
• Meet the movers and shakers in the business and civic community and form connections that will make both personal and professional impact.
• Go behind the scenes to hear from decision makers on topics such as Austin’s growth and changing demographics, Central Texas workforce development initiatives, economic development, transportation, healthcare and the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of the city.
• Learn how to get involved, get connected and make a difference!

The spring 2011 session of Leadership Austin’s extremely popular Experience Austin program includes in-depth sessions on the topics of:

• Education and Workforce development
• Land Use, Transportation, Housing
• Healthcare
• Austin’s economy and demographics and
• The creative and entrepreneurial spirit of our city

The Do Gooder Awards?

You heard that right. Although Lights. Camera. Help. is the world’s first film festival for cause driven and nonprofit film our friends over at SEE3 have a cool online video contest you can all enter as well!

The Awards are open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd. This year, for the first time, in addition to awards for Best Small, Medium, and Large nonprofit organization videos, there is also a Best Thrifty Video category for videos produced for under $500.

You can enter here! Good luck nonprofit friends!

New TV Show Heading your way!

As you know all know I firmly believe in the power of Film and Video to tell a story. Heck I even believe in the power of TV when used correctly. That’s why I am all about this new TV show my friend Sean is working on here in Austin. Take a look and let him know what you think by leaving a comment on the YouTube channel .

Welcome to The Austin Supper Club, the very first locally produced, Austin-centric cooking show, and the new official destination for quality food and epicurean culture the Austin way. For 30 minutes each week, ASC takes a look at a slice of local food culture, and then shows its viewers how they can create that experience in their own kitchen.

Eating well doesn’t have to be difficult, expensive, or boring. Let The Austin Supper Club show you how.

Join my Movember Team!

Some of you may remember that last year, a bunch of us Austinites teamed up against some Bostonians to raise awareness and help fight prostate and testicular cancer during the month of November. The end result of our Movember campaign was a 50 person team with over $18,000 in donations. This year, we’re hoping to make it bigger… five times bigger to be exact. We have big plans to incorporate corporate donations, scavenger hunts, famous sports figures and lots more.

What’s fun about this fund raising effort is that not only focused on encouraging people to donate money but more importantly, it’s about team building and creating awareness so that blockheads like me who at least one point in time in their lives thought they were invincible, do something about getting regular checkups. Oh yeah, we also get to grow mustaches (or if you’re female, you get to Photoshop on a mustache).

So how can you the readers on my Blog get involved? Well I would love for you to join our team here: http://us.movember.com/register/75952

Or donate to my effort here: http://us.movember.com/donate/your-details/team_id/75952/

Think of it as a tip for all the work I do bringing you great content. And a tip of the hat to Aaron Strout for the great words above!