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101 Things To Do in Austin
Social Flights is now offering air service to Austin from Nashville and Milwaukee via Branson. This marks a new age in air transportation called “regionalization” – when smaller cities can conne3ct directly with other smaller cities without having to fly through a major hub airport.
In celebration of these new routes, we are pulling together the communities in these cities to find out what is happening in town. Use these blog posts to combine business with pleasure or family life the next time you need to go to Austin.
List Compiled by
1. Polar Bear Plunge at Barton Springs
3 Circle C Ranch Metropolitan Park
8 Tribute to the King at the Continental Club
9. Saturday Night Live Brunch at Alamo Drafthouse
10 Bouldin Creek Coffee House & Cafe
11. Franklin BBQ
12. Walnut Creek Metropolitian Park
14. Mariachi Band at El Sol y La Luna
15. The Soup Peddler
16. Grand Opening of Austinville 78704
17. Martin Luther King March & Celebration
20. Thursday Night Social Ride
21. Get Fit Austin! Open House
22. Chili Cook Off For Charity
23. Free Cooking Class at Williams Sonoma
26. Volunteer at a Homeless Shelter
28. Yappy Hour
29. Jester King Brewery Grand Opening Celebration
30. Matt’s El Rancho
31. El Greco
32. All City Subs
33. Armadillo Day at the West Pole
34. Braise Austin
35. The Matchmaker Band at Speakeasy
36. Mock Surgery Day at Seton Hospital
37. The Doggie Bowl at The Highball
38. Dominican Joe
40. Hoffbrau Steaks
41. 2011 Bobby Bones Singles Mingle
42. Jerry Jeff Walker at One World Theatre
43. Saturday Night Fever Dance Party at The Iron Cactus
45. Love Bites: The Power Ballad Sing-A-Long at Alamo Drafthouse
46. Vounteer/Donate/Get Involved With Austin’s Yellow Bike Project
47. Terra Burger
48. Paco’s Tacos
49. Paradise Bingo
51. Livestrong Post Marathon Party at the Hyatt
53. Vino Vino
54. Rooftop Architecture Film Series at Arthouse
55. Goldilocks at Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre
57. 2nd Street Soundcheck Party
58. North American Handmade Bike Show
59. Mariachi Ensemble at The St. Edwards Music Festival
60. East Side Kings
61. Texas The Big Picture at The Bob Bullock Museum
63. Uncorked Tasting Room & Wine Bar
64. Explore UT
66. 13th Annual Townes Van Zandt Birthday Salute at Cactus Cafe
67. Celebrate Fat Tuesday with Cypress Grill
68. Phara’s
70. SXSW
71. Rodeo Austin
72. Bacon Takedown
76. BD Riley’s Irish Pub St. Patrick’s Day Party
77. Japan Nite 2011
78. “365 Things Austin Live Music Extravaganza” Unofficial SXSW Party
79. Austin Dog Fair
81. Free “Country Current” Concert at City Hall
83. Flash Mob: A Tribute to Japan
84. Guy Forsyth at Central Market Cafe
85. 54th Annual Zilker Garden Festival
86. Austin Jazz Society 3rd Annual Tribute Concert
88 Cooking/Baking Classes at Silver Whisk Cooking School
90. Texas Hill Country Food & Wine Festival
92. Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up
93. Art City Austin
94. Bikini’s Sports Bar & Grill
95. Coreanos
96. Grand Opening of Torchy’s Tacos on South Lamar
97. Beatles Tribute at Threadgill’s
98. Austin International Poetry Festival
100. Steiner Ranch Farmer’s Market
101. Fly Social Flights to Branson, Milwaukee or Nashville!!
The Intangible Value of Air Transportation
Many experts estimate that only 20% of economic impact is measured in financial value – rather, most of it is measured in intangible value. The work of visionaries in the areas of Intangible Value and the value of social networks are able to articulate value far beyond that which can be counted with money. Suppose these principles could be applied not only to corporations, but also to communities sharing an asset such as an airport?
In the race to defend valuable assets from the fiscal cutting room floor, communities are increasingly trying to define themselves in terms of shared community assets from schools to parks museums and even airports.
From: Worcester Telegram & Gazette – telegram.com.
State officials released a study yesterday saying that Worcester Regional Airport is a boon to the local economy, even though the airport has struggled for years and offers charter service through just one carrier. The study released by the Department of Transportation said the airport supports 418 jobs and has an annual economic benefit to the tune of $51.4 million.
The Intangible Value Drivers include the following questions for corporations, but this also applies to any community sharing a set of assets. From Mary Adams from her recent book Intangible Capital, she asks:
- How do you get paid (the key revenue categories on your income statement)? (strategic capital)
- What are the processes and knowledge/data that drive this revenue? (structural capital)
- What are the competencies that your people need to support this business model? (human capital)
- What are the key external relationships that make this model work? (relationship capital)
Apply these intangible principles to any community:
A community gets paid by their collective productivity – this is their strategic capital. In order to be productive, communities need access to markets and resources that support their productivity. The structural capital of a community includes their social processes and knowledge assets but also, their access to knowledge assets and data (stored value) of other communities. The community counts human capital in the skills that they collectively hold; entrepreneurs, trades, and social services, and education for example. Finally, strong and weak relationship capital includes the internal social fabric but also their external connections and associations.
All of these Intangible factors are directly tied to the ability for a community to travel and be traveled to. As such, travel assets, by definition, always return 80% ROI. If you lose one of them, you lose the other three.
The Massachusetts State Study found that overall the state’s 39 airports combined support more than 124,000 jobs and generate $11.9 billion in economic output annually.
If 80% of the value is in intangibles, one can argue that Worchester Regional is worth 250 Million and all 39 Massachusetts airports are worth 55 Billion in intangible economic output. The real connection being missed is the difference between the economic value that cannot be accounted for in existing service models. $250 Million dollars is a lot of air transportation for a region that always generates 80% ROI.
What many peoples fail to realize is the possibility that a community can operate their own airline. The regionalization of air service pioneered by Social Flights is a new concept that allows communities to own and operate one or more aircraft maintaining control over the schedules and locations where the aircraft flies.