DC Social Media Maven @shashib Featured !

I was really excited a few moments ago when I got a message form my local DC friend Shashi Bellamkonda (aka @shashib ) pointing me over to a post he has been featured in. And it was just any post, it was Shel Israel’s blog Global Neighbourhoods.

It was a great read and I am really happy for Shashi, he is a very genuine great person that I have had the please of getting to know a bit here in the DC area. I too came to know Shashi from Twitter and we hooked up at a local Tweetup I set up a couple of months back. Since then we see each other regularly around town and always stay in touch via Twitter.

He really was baptised by fire after taking the Social Media position with Network Solutions and he handled it incredibly better than I would say 99% of us would have. It was a very inflammatory situation in which he kept his cool and responded just how he should have.

I have my own story about Shashi. We were recently going to meet at a local Metro station for a ride downtown to attend the DC Blogger Meetup. I was glad to ride with him, and what struck me the most was how he said he was happy to ride with me and be able to get 45 minutes of uninterrupted attention from me while on the subway. In my head I thought “Wow, we are in the midst of a “virtual” social media world and Shashi wants to talk to people and hear what they have to say”. It was refreshing. We talked about the front running thing going on and I gave him my 2 cents worth.

Great job Shashi, keep up the good work. See you around town my friend.