gregackerman

This is a post from Brady Smith, a web mentor and friend: "Greg is excited to be apart of the Austin Social Scene, Austin Music Scene, Texas Social Media and loves to help out fellow Texans. He is a prime candidate for the ‘Texas Social Media Awards‘. Greg closely follows the Austin Music scene, sharing his views along with promoting local music through his Examiner.com posts, Twitter, and various other social media outlets. Greg attends,reviews and promotes Austin’s most popular festivals and concerts and shares so much along the way. During Austin City Limits, he was able to give insider updates due to his ATX musical connections and is ramping up for the world renowned South By South West Festival (SXSW) held in Austin, Texas. Another nomination trait Greg possesses for Texas Social Media Awards is his caring Texan soul. You will often find him on twitter, simply helping out Austinites by forwarding local information which relates to their interests or mentioned needs. He shares these acts of social media kindness with absolutly no expecations of receiving anything in return. Most importantly, Greg is a huge supporter of Austin’s Charity Meals On Wheels, promoting their ongoing effort to assist/feed Austin’s Elderly with home delivery of hot meals. He promotes their events through twitter along with ‘ReTweeting’ (RT) their posted events. It should also be noted, Greg always is the first to promote new social media technologies like foursquare, gowalla.com, ustream.tv and many more social media tools to his fellow Texans and the world."