Tag Archives: Joe Ruiz

What the F-stop? BMPR is back, baby!

After a long hiatus, BMPR is back in business. Shutter up! On Thursday, Dec. 8th at the Holiday Inn Airport, we’ll help you tame that fancy camera and video equipment just in time for the holidays. We can’t fix your awkward family members, but we can help you capture the moments in a way that [...]

Happy 2nd Birthday BMPR! Rackspace Tweetup

Happy 2nd Birthday BMPR! Rackspace Tweetup

RSVP Here for the March 31 Tweetup at Rackspace: http://twtvite.com/BMPRRackspace Happy Birthday to us! Two years of social media mashups with this city’s hip, smart, generous, tweeple. We can’t think of a better place to celebrate than at Rackspace, San Antonio’s iconic tech firm that leads the way in social media, technology, customer service, corporate [...]

BMPR Smorgascopia

RSVP for BMPR Smorgascopia on 1/27: Click Here This month’s social media mashuppourri will touch on a wide range of industry uses. You won’t want to miss these speakers: Melissa Ludwig Melissa Ludwig Band San Antonio Express News Reporter On Twitter: Melissa_Ludwig By day, Melissa Ludwig is an education reporter at the San Antonio Express [...]

April 2010 BMPR Wrap Up + Tips & Tricks

Thank you all for joining us at another amazing @thebmpr!  We were so fortunate to have the amazing Joel Frey (@cypresswalls) and the Roaming Gnome (@roaminggnome) from Travelocity (@travelocity), Dale Blasingame (@normalguyguide) from The Hotel Guide (@thehotelguide), and Michelle Newman from the San Antonio Express News (@mysa).  Additionally, this BMPR was extra special thanks to [...]

May #BMPR’s Gonna Shake You All Night Long

Strap on your Go-Go boots and come join us for the first-ever nighttime BMPR. The Bumper Awards, plus a lineup of speakers who work in the leisure and entertainment industries — talking about how they’re integrating social media. Brent Traylor (@txroadshow) producer, host, owner of Texas Sportsman’s Roadshow will be on hand; SeaWorld San Antonio [...]

Wanderlust: Social Media and Travel – April 2010 #BMPR

To RSVP for the April 29th #BMPR, click here: http://twtvite.com/bmpr410 The days of traveling to destinations seen only in slick travel pamphlets are long over. Today, you can visit your dream spot via live web cam, video 360 tours and view other people’s photos of those too-good-to-be-true $58 hotel rooms. (What do you mean it [...]

The ABCs of 2010: How Educators Use Social Media

This month’s BMPR is Thursday, Jan. 21 at noon, Holiday Inn Airport. Event is free, lunch buffet is $13. RSVP here: http://twtvite.com/3oe2ac “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.” ~ Anonymous Is it me or did college campus libraries of the past have a covert relationships with local bars? [...]

Before We Tweetup: Sports & Entertainment #BMPR

  Nothing puts the social in social media quite like sports and entertainment — two industries where passion and fun can spread like wildfire. Sports teams are delivering their messages to the masses, athletes are connecting directly with fans, bands are Twittering to announce their next gigs and release videos of their new songs, bars [...]

Bumping around the new BMPR

So now that you’re a part of The BMPR, what’s with all these new-fangled tools on our recently-redesigned (thanks, Vid Luther) Web site? You’ll obviously notice the new domain — Mom made us move out on our own — to go with our new name and logo (thanks, Maria Southmayd) on our new site, but [...]

Andi says goodbye; two say hello

Hang on to your hats we’ve got good news and sad news. Sad news first: Andi Narvaez, our dear friend and co-founder of SAMPRB, is leaving us. Lucky for her, the move is a good one. She is leaving behind San Antonio to become a full-time graduate student at the University of Maryland and further [...]