Austin, TX - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
Contacts - Movers & Shakers - Networking Contact or join these groups before your stay to mazimize your access to powerful networks.
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
United Way Capital Area Women's Giving Network
Linkedin.com - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 13 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Highly recommended.
Largest Industries
Austin's biggest employers include the State of Texas, The University of Texas, the SETON Healthcare Network, Dell, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor. The proliferation of technology companies has led to the region's nickname, "the Silicon Hills".
In addition to global companies, Austin features a strong network of independent, locally-owned firms and organizations. Small businesses from restaurants to clothing shops to salons to arts companies in Austin enjoy a lively existence gained by direct competition with large national and global rivals.
The state government, non-profits, and schools (the university and colleges, preschool-12th grade) also provide many jobs. Work in the food industry/farming/culinary arts also provides a surprisingly high amount of employment/income for many people.
Newspapers
Traditional
Alternatives
Magazines
Austin Monthly | Austin Fit | Austin Home & Living | Texas Monthly
Business
City Guides
TV
KVUE (ABC) | KEYE (CBS) | KTBC (Fox) | KXAN (NBC) | KLRU (PBS) | KNVA (WB)
Business Resources
Elance - Outsourced freelancers for any type of work
Fedex-Kinkos - for any type of doc production, shipping
American Exress - for flight reservations, hotels, automatic flight insurance
Leisure
