Sandra Says

The Houston Public Library is going to have C-SPAN2’s Book TV taping the upcoming “An Evening with Gregory Rodriguez.” Rodriguez will be reading from and discussing his book Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America.

“An Evening With Gregory Rodriguez”
November 5, 2007 at 6 PM
McGovern-Stella Link Neighborhood Library
7405 Stella Link, 77025 * 832-393-2630

Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez takes on the polemic issues of our times, immigration and the demographic reshaping of America, in his new book “Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America.” In his book, Rodriguez flashes forward 100 years in time, tracing the cultural and political landscape of America in the wake of Mexican immigration. The public is invited to meet and greet Rodriguez as he reads and signs copies of his new book.

It should prove to be an interesting discussion.

Tonight is the Houston NetSquared July Meetup:

When: Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 7:00 PM

Description: Just to be fun, we’re doing a last minute change-up for this July NetSquared meeting. Ed Schipul will be giving us the lowdown on last weekend’s iPhone Development Camp in San Francisco.

1. Recap of Barcamp / iPhone Dev Camp - about the event
2. Designing for the iPhone
3. What makes the iPhone tick
4. Demos of iPhone apps

Bring your iPhone, laptop and your brain - this will be a great geek-out session, with great practical applications for mobile Web designing.

Tomorrow, PRSA Houston is holding a Workshop & Luncheon on Social Media & Public Relations:

Wed 11-Jul-07 8:00 AM - to - Wed 11-Jul-07 1:30 PM CDT
Courtyard on St. James
1885 St. James Place
Houston TX 77056  

Details on “July 11 Workshop & Luncheon–Social Media & Public Relations”

Speaker Information “Josh Hallet”
Josh Hallet has been involved in emerging internet communication technologies for more than ten years and works closely with public relations! practitioners and corporate communicators to integrate these technological tools into organizations’ public and media strategic planning. He is a Fellow//Board Member of the Society of New Communications Research, as well as a member of the Information Architecture Institute, and the Florida Public Relations Association.

Also tomorrow, WITI Houston is holding a regional event, on the Digital Houston Initiative:

Join WITI as we discuss the latest on the City of Houston’s initiative to make wireless broadband services available throughout the city!

The objectives of this initiative include:

- Reducing the City government cost for mobile computing, i.e. parking meters, traffic signals, maintenance crews, field inspections, video and photography in police cars, maps and building plans in fire and EMS vehicles;
- Reducing the monthly cost of broadband for residential and small business users from $30-$50 to $10-$20;
- Bridging the digital divide for disadvantaged communities/ individuals and promoting economic development and conventions/tourism.

The City intends to leverage its significant real estate holdings, as well as rights it may secure to assets owned by the local electric utility, to stimulate private investments and provide maximum value for the community. The City also intends to secure access to more than one (1) million street light and/or utility poles, which are owned by the local electric utility, and deployed in the City’s rights-of-way.

We will have drawings for door prizes. Please bring your business cards to the meeting to enter the drawings.

About Our Speaker(s):
Umesh K. Verma, President and CEO of Blue Lance, is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years in the IT industry. Since forming Blue Lance in 1985, he has built the company into a leading provider of computer security and regulatory compliance software products. He is an expert on computer security and monitoring of information assets and is a frequent speaker.

Alongside his success with Blue Lance, Mr. Verma is recognized for having grown C-TREC into one of the largest privately held computer training companies in Houston, specializing in CISSP, Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, HP (ASE), CompTIA, Citrix and SAIR Linux certifications, and is an official Prometric Testing center. He also founded Softec International, an offshore software development company. Softec International was acquired by Novell in 1997.

Boards & Task Forces:

Greater Houston Partnership Board of Directors
Chair, Technology Infrastructure Committee
Economic Development Advisory Committee
Center for Houston’s Future Leadership & Engagement Committee
Houston Technology Center Advisory Board
Technology Executive Club of Houston
University of Houston College of Technology Advisory Board
University of Houston Alumni Organization Board of Directors
Houston Business Magazine Advisory Board
Awards:

Honored as one of 44 distinguished entrepreneurs in the City of Houston by the Houston Technology Center
Future 500 Upside Award presented by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year finalist
28th fastest growing company in Houston by the Houston Business Journal
Houston 100 awards 1992
Houston 100 awards 1991

Event Date and Venue
This event will be held from 6:00-8:30 on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at:

SYSCO Corporation
1370 Enclave Parkway
Houston, Texas 77077
(Map)

Directions:
The parking garage entry gates are equipped with a typical push button for assistance. Please announce yourself as a WITI attendess, security
will verify and allow access. Entry to the building is on level 1 from the parking garage. The hallway will lead you to the main lobby and can check in there. The Meeting room is located on the 4th floor. Rooms A4 - 1,2 & 3. The registration table will be located just inside rooms 1&2.

If you have been to SYSCO before, please be aware that this is a new corporate office, which is next door to the original building. The original building is no longer there.

Schedule:
6:00-6:30 Registration, Dinner and Networking
6:30-7:00 Announcements, Sponsor Welcome
7:00-8:00 Program, Q&A
8:00-8:30 Networking

All of these look interesting enough to put on your calendar (they’re already on mine).

Thursday, July 12 at 2 p.m.
Jungman Neighborhood Library
5830 Westheimer, 77057 * 832-393-1860

Free and Open to the Public

The Houston Public Library invites the public to meet and greet Texan author Marsha Moyer at Jungman Neighborhood Library located at 5830 Westheimer, 77057. Moyer will give a presentation on her latest release Heartbreak Town and sign books on Thursday, July 12 at 2 p.m.

In Heartbreak Town, Moyer continues the saga of sassy East Texan Lucy Hatch from her previous novels The Last of the Honky-Tonk Angels and The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch. Back home in Mooney after fleeing Nashville and her country-crooner hubby, Ash Farrell, Lucy settles into her old job at the flower shop and new life as a single mom. But, her plans are blown to bits when Ash roars into town in a rainstorm, on the run from rehab with a wounded heart, shattered dreams and a trashy trailer that he parks in Lucy’s yard.

Marsha Moyer was born in Austin and grew up in Bryan-College Station. After graduating from Bryan High School, she attended the University of Texas at Austin. For the next 25 years she held a variety of jobs, including those of secretary to two animal scientists in the field of swine management, newsletter editor at the Texas A&M computing center, and assistant to the late chemist Karl Folkers, whose work in the field of coenzyme Q-10 research is world-renowned.

Moyer has written fiction since childhood, and in 1990 was awarded a three-month residency from the Syvenna Foundation for women writers in northeast Texas. Almost a decade later, the East Texas experience came full circle when she began the manuscript which would ultimately yield four novels in the Lucy Hatch series.

For further details, please contact the Houston Public Library at www.houstonlibrary.org or call 832-393-1313.

An Evening With…

You Are Cordially Invited To
“An Evening With…”

The Houston Public Library invites you, your friends and your neighbors to an ongoing author series where you will meet well-known authors from several genres. Relationships, mysteries and faith are just a few of the topics to be presented in the first programs.

As part of the year-long series, monthly events will be held throughout the city at neighborhood libraries. Attend one, or attend them all. Authors will read from one (or several) of their books, answer audience questions and talk about what inspires their writing. All events are free and open to the public.

“An Evening With Bill Crider”

Robinson-Westchase Neighborhood Library

Monday, June 11, 2007 at 6 p.m.

Crider is the author of 50 published novels and numerous short stories. He will read from his book, “Murder Among the OWLS,” the 14th installment in his Dan Rhodes mystery series, in which a member of the Old Women’s Literary Society (OWLS) is found dead.

For further details, please contact the Houston Public Library at www.houstonlibrary.org or call 832-393-1313.

View an expression of Houston from the perspective given by youth between the ages of 12 and 15 as a part of the H-E-B 5th Annual Multicultural Calendar. A traveling exhibit of their photographs will be on display at three Houston Public Library neighborhood locations. This exhibit is free and open to the public.

The project received generous support from Kraft Foods, Colgate Palmolive and H-E-B. For more information, call 832-393-1313 or visit www.houstonlibrary.org.

April 30th – May 9th
Robinson-Westchase Neighborhood Library
3223 Wilcrest, 77042 * 832-393-2011

May 10th – May 20th
Carnegie Regional Library
1050 Quitman, 77009 * 832-393-1720

May 21st – May 31st
Frank Neighborhood Library
6440 West Bellfort, 77035 * 832-393-2410

An Evening With…

You Are Cordially Invited To
“An Evening With…”

The Houston Public Library invites you, your friends and your neighbors to an ongoing author series where you will meet well-known authors from several genres. Relationships, mysteries and faith are just a few of the topics to be presented in the first programs.

As part of the year-long series, monthly events will be held throughout the city at neighborhood libraries. Attend one, or attend them all. Authors will read from one (or several) of their books, answer audience questions and talk about what inspires their writing. All events are free and open to the public.

“An Evening With Karen Miller”
Heights Neighborhood Library
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 6 p.m.

Miller will read from her book, “Momma Zen,” in which she explores how the daily challenges of early parenthood can become a profound spiritual path. Her memoir takes readers on a transformative journey, distilling the common doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.

For further details, please contact the Houston Public Library at www.houstonlibrary.org or call 832-393-1313.

When: Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 7:00 PM

Description:

Join us for another engaging non profit technology meetup at Stag’s Head Pub.

This month we’ll be talking to Jeremy Dilbeck of HyperAlert (www.hyperalert.com) about the increasingly important use of technology for communicating during times of crisis.

SMS, RSS, Twitter, PFIF, oh my! How are we utilizing the technologies available to us for emergency communications? What tools or technologies are we missing? Looking forward, what are processes we can put into place in our schools, companies and general public that will enable us to take advantage of available resources and potentially save lives?

Come with your ideas, wish lists and experiences communicating with technology as Jeremy discusses his vision for the technology-driven communicative future.

More info.

The next Refresh Houston meeting will include a roundtable discussion on community, co-working and social media.

When:  Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 6:30 PM

Where: Buddha Lounge, 2670 Sage Road, Houston, Texas 77056

Found via Upcoming.org (which is now http://upcoming.yahoo.com).

Tonight is the Houston NetSquared April Meetup. It’s at the Stag’s Head Pub at 7 p.m.

April 1st – May 31st
Julia Ideson Building
500 McKinney, 77002 * 832-393-1313

The Houston Public Library presents an exhibit of photographs from its powerhouse sister city Shenzhen. In this exhibit you will also find posters, lanterns, antique Chinese cameras and related photographic items, and hand-made kites and traditional costumes from the country’s diverse ethnic groups. The exhibit coincides with the Houston International Festival celebration of the Chinese nation. The exhibit is free and open to the public.