DC Comnunity Reaches Out

On the heels of finishing off my so called mission statement the other night, I came across a post by Chris Brogan titled "Back in the Saddle".  As many of you who follow Chris's twitter updates are/were aware. he had a heck of a time of it while he was down at SXSW.  His blog went teets up and he was forced to post his thoughts over to his tumblr blog.  Not the most idea place to write pretty expressive posts for all to read. 

Timing always fascinates me as an interesting thing.  Just as I had polished off my thoughts on how building a community is all about reaching out and offering your services to others in order to strengthen the bonds, along came Chris's post.  He said that right away when he started to have an issue, friends jumped into help out. 

Around this same time, KEITH Casey from Casey Software and Why Go Solo made a little holding file for all my front end blog files. Thank you so much for that, Keith!

I have come to know Keith a little recently and I totally see this in him.  He has expressed interest in do things to help grow the community here in DC and I was not surprised at all to see he was right there to help.  Then Chris mentions another close friend to all of here in DC, AaronBrazell. 

Thanks to Aaron Brazell of Technosailor for taking apart my website, piece by piece, digging in deep to the SQL, and finding the problem. Without Aaron, I would’ve continued fighting my former hosting provider instead of finding the problem. Aaron also offered my site a home, and I’m grateful for that.

Aaron has been one of the most vocal and active supporters of the local community here.  He has a lot of great thoughts and ideas and it is no surprise to see him put those words into practice. 

One of the most important factors of creating a great group are the people that make that group up.  And we truly have some good ones here in DC.  There are great people, too many to mention by name here.  But two great examples are the gentlemen mentioned above, setting a great example for the type of generosity it will take to push our little city here into the forefront making it the place to be.

Glad you are here with us guys.