06.27.06
new GRB Web site
A site to see: the new George R. Brown Convention Center Web site. It has News, an Events Calendar and info on Houston events.
06.26.06
trying to decide if your business needs a blog?
Schipul is hosting a workshop you should check out: Blogging - Should Your Company Do It?
When and where:
Fri 30-Jun-06 10:00 AM - to - Fri 30-Jun-06 11:30 AM CDT
Speaker: Aaron Long
Graphics Director Schipul - The Web Marketing CompanyRegister Now! Registration deadline is Wed 28-Jun-06 10:00 AM
Schipul - The Web Marketing Company
11757 Katy Fwy, Suite 930
Houston TX 77079
06.25.06
“Starting & Running A Small Business” Seminar
On Saturday, July 8, 2006, the Houston, TX Chapter of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) will hold a “Starting & Running A Small Business” Seminar.
This award winning seminar is a must for prospective entrepreneurs and a proven benefit to many already in business. It is a powerful program that’s packed with information, tips and techniques needed to start a new business as well as improve an ongoing enterprise. A 100 page manual is included.
Where: University of Houston, Main Campus
Hilton Hotel Conference Center
Map of University Of Houston, Hilton Center Second Floor
4800 Calhoun Rd
Houston TX 77004
When: Saturday, July 8, 2006
Start Registration: 7:30AM
Course: 8:30AM - 4:00PM
Registration fee: $35 per person; Cash/Check
“includes free underground parking”
For More Information, call 713-773-6565.
06.24.06
$200,000 for a house in Houston
I’m a renter. However, based on the increase in prices for real estate in Houston, it’s looking less likely that I will become an owner.
Houston’s average home price breaks $200,000-mark for first time
– reported by the Houston Business JournalHouston home prices broke records in May, with the average single-family home price surpassing the $200,000 mark for the first time.
The average single-family home price for May was $204,005, up 8.2 percent over last year, according to statistics from the Houston Association of Realtors.
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Resources
06.23.06
Houston kids can meet Ringling clowns
Another listing picked up from the Houston Public Library Upcoming Events enewsletter:
Meet a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown
Houston Public Library invites you
to a fun-filled program featuring
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clowns.Tuesday, June 27, 2006 * 2 PM
Flores Branch Library
110 North Milby • 832-393-1780One of Ringling’s zaniest clowns will engage in a circus reading party with young readers that includes interactive play, exciting story time sessions and special treats and surprises for participants and suggested reading lists for kids.
meet author Emily Fox Gordon
Picked up from the Houston Public Library Upcoming Events enewsletter:
Join us for an evening with author Emily Fox Gordon
Thursday, June 29, 2006
6:30 PM Reception
7 PM ProgramMcGovern-Stella Link Branch Library
7405 Stella Link
Houston, TX 77025
Emily Fox Gordon has published personal essays in Boulevard, Salmagundi, and The American Scholar, and her work has won two Pushcart Prizes. An essay about her hospitalization as a teenager at Austen Riggs formed the basis for Mockingbird Years (2000), a memoir named a New York Times Notable Book and was chosen as one of Amazon.com’s top ten memoirs for the year. Gordon has taught workshops at Rice University, Houston’s INPRINT program, and the University of Wyoming. Her new memoir, ARE YOU HAPPY?, began as an essay.
Freedom Over Texas 4th of July celebration
Chevy’s Freedom Over Texas with Fireworks Presented by Shell
Houston’s Official July 4th Celebration
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Eleanor Tinsley Park @ Buffalo Bayou
4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Admission for the festival, which benefits the Central Houston Civic Improvement, Inc., is $6.00 at the gate for adults; children 10 and under are free.
Chevy’s Freedom Over Texas with Fireworks Presented by Shell will be simulcast on KTRK-TV (ABC), Ch.13 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4th, and will be syndicated statewide on KTVT-TV (CBS) in Dallas, KEYE-TV (CBS) in Austin, KSAT-TV (ABC) in San Antonio, KXTS-TV (CBS) in Victoria, KXVA-TV (FOX) in Abilene, KIDY-TV (FOX) in San Angelo, KFOX-TV (FOX) in El Paso, KDF-TV (FOX) in Corpus Christi and KGBT-TV (CBS) in Harlingen. In addition, a Clear Channel radio station (to be announced) will simulcast the music medley specially choreographed for the fireworks spectacular.
Additional resources:
06.22.06
get email notices from the City of Houston
I found this on the City of Houston Web site. I haven’t signed up myself, but hear that thousands of people have. And I know that the first of the emails have already been delivered.
Mayor Bill White Invites You to Register for CitizensNet
Dear Houstonians,
Would you like to receive periodic e-mails on important City issues of interest to you and your neighborhood? If so, please click here to register today.
Thank you very much for your interest and participation in CitizensNet.
Bill White
Mayor
I’m still debating whether or not I’ll bother to do this, since I don’t live in Houston. Then again, I work in the city (most of the time) and spend enough time here that I may do it anyway.
visit the world’s largest indoor amusement park
Reliant Center’s Astrodome today opens its doors as the world’s largest indoor amusement park. The attraction will be available through the 4th of July.
From the news coverage:
The park will include several rides including Drop Zone, Century Wheel, Bumper Cars, Spin Out and more.
Tickets are on sale online through TicketMaster.
For more information, visit www.reliantpark.com.
06.21.06
qualify for free gas
An innovative advertising program is giving Houstonians an opportunity to get their gas paid. All they have to do is agree to use his vehicle as a mobile advertising venue. In other words, add a magnet advertising a service or program.
Some Houston drivers could qualify for free gas
– reported by KHOU.com[snip]
Ywaine Spiner is part of a pre-launch program from FreeGasHelp.com. It’s program that’s coming to the Houston area looking for more drivers willing to use their vehicles for advertising in exchange for free gas.
He met all the criteria, including driving more than 1,000 miles a week.
He has had the sign for about two weeks. His first gas card comes at the end of the month.
Spiner earns about $27 a month, which equals out to more than $300 a year.
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Four to six weeks before entire program comes to Houston, FreeGasHelp.com is working with a couple a car dealerships for a location site.
They are looking to sign up about 500 drivers who met the criteria and are still enrolling people in the Houston-area before the pre-launch.
For more information visit: www.freegashelp.com.
To see if you qualify, visit www.freegashelp.com.