Yesterday was quite the day in DC for Social Media. It all began with Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast and ended with the Media Rules Book launch Party last night. Both events were a good time, but I had a great time at Jeff’s breakfast.
The breakfast was downtown at Busboys and Poets. It was of course to see all my current DC friends and of course to meet new ones. I finally got to meet Jim Long (@newmediajim) in person along with Rana Sobhany (@ranajune), Eric Litman (@ericlitman) of WashingtonVC , and Chris Parandian of MobileDiner. I am still amazed how this online social media thing has lead me to meet so many great people in person. The relationships I am building are great, it is a real sense of community bubbling to the surface here in DC and I am glad to be a part of it. It was also great to meet other people. Everyone has great things going on and I love hearing about them. One cool thing Jeff had everyone do was to write their name and a personal tag line on the name tag. Mine was “Passionate Technology”. That could have been the line on everyones name tag. Meeting those like minded people is great to be a part of.
I met other passionate people like Joel Selzer who is President and CEO of Ozmosis
Ozmosis provides a new model for knowledge dissemination by enabling physicians to benefit from the collective wisdom of their peers. Ozmosis delivers access to that collective wisdom by aggregating the shared insights of the community and presenting the most relevant clinical and practice management information back to the physician.
It seems like a great project and I wish Joel all the best. I also was fortunate to meet Jeremy Epstein of Microsoft. We had a great talk about technology and about my side project MyDropBin. As soon as he was home later he signed up, well .. tried to, we are working on that, so are the trails of a one person side business. But we will get him going and I look forward to his feedback. I know there are people I am missing, suffice it to say, a good time was had by all. Make sure to check out the pics and Jeff’s Qik videos of the event.
The last night I headed back downtown for the Media Rules Book Launch. It was another good time and got to meet some more great people. I was happy to get to meet Anthony LaFauce. I have been enjoying his writing on Nick O’Neill’s Social Times and was happy to finally get the chance to meet up with him. I picked up the book and am looking forward to reading it on my new train rides downtown.
Again, what a great time to be involved in the local tech community. Great people doing great things. Good to see and meet all of you !
