Event Recap: MashMeet DC Remix

I know this post is a little late, some of us have to work … LOL just teasing, but seriously.  Much of the local DC tech scene was out last night in advance of the mass exodus of SXSW’ers.  We were all at the MashMeet DC Remix event help at Ogilvy Public Relations in DC.  As usual it was great to see old friends and meet some new ones.

I will say the setup was a little difficult with demonstrations trying to go on with no sound system and much of the crowd being told to keep the noise down so the demonstrators could be heard … but otherwise it was a great event.  I did not get to see much of the demos, but I do know that our local favorite news sharing site, Mixx, presented and I heard some good talk about Kluster.com.

There was a good mix of people there.  I got to finally check off a few real world introductions to some fellow dc twitter’s like Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs and and Keith Casey programmer extraordinaire  of the WhyGoSolo Team.  I met up with the social media swami Shashi B and rode the metro into town to gather pre mashMeet with a group to include Aaron Brazell, Ann Bernbard, Andrew Wright, Keith Casey, and Jonathon Trenn.

It was an interesting event, I got to follow up on some chatter about the post I wrote about DC area startups developing a complex, my subsequent appearance on teh District of Corruption with Aaron and Geoff Livingston, and Aaron’s follow up post about it.  It generated a lot of talk and honestly that is a good thing.  People are weighing in on both sides of the fence, but in the end I think we all agree, we are onto something special here with a great group of people and I am happy to be able to call them my friends and be able to help them out as much as I can.

It is great to see these events continue to grow and grow in popularity here and we are totally looking forward to the ones in the near furture, like PodCampDC and BlogPotomac.  Events like these will continue to bring together all of the great people and make our little town here special.  There are so many poepl starting to attend, I always leave wishing I had talked to a few more people, but that is what the next one is for.  See you around town.