Central Texas Links to Local Tech Groups and Networking Organizations
Central Texas Business / Technology Groups and Organizations
- Agile Austin
- 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 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 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 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
- 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
- SystemVerilog Users Group (SVUG)
- Technology Advisors Group
- Williamson County Human Resources Association
- WITI - Women In Technology, Austin Chapter
Networking & Career
- Austin in Person
- 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
- Techxans - Technology Executives Network
- Texchange - Austin
- TiE - Global Network of Entrepreneurs, Austin
- 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
- College of Lifelong Engineering Education (UT Austin)
- IC2 Institute M.S. in Science & 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
- Adomatica
- AustinBlogger
- Austinist
- Austin Bloggers - The Austin Bloggers Metablog
- Austin Startup - Austin Technology and Business Trends, News, and Opinions (Bryan Menell)
- 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)
- 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)
Please add my virtualization users group.
Name: Virtualization Austin Users Group
URL: http://virtualaustin.org