The next Social Matchbox event that will be held (location TBD) on Monday, June 30, 2008 and would like to hear from you. The last event had nearly 200 people and 30 companies in attendance. Based on the feedback we received from that last event we are going to limit the number of presenters and try to secure a location that closer to a Metro stop in the district so that more people can be there. If you would like to volunteer or if your organization would like to become a sponsor and help with the costs associated with the event (we work hard to minimize them). Also, if your startup company is hiring and would like to present at the event let us know now. We allowed event registration to go up until the day of the event last time, but that is not likely - if anything we will issue a limited number of tickets and once they are gone we will cut off registration.
To get involved, or to get more information, send a note to: email@jobmatchbox.com .
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 am
Bob, This post is so on target, even if it covers advice which we all already know. Reinforcement of truisms is important!
More importantly, it seems that the Mid Atlantic region is home to a lot of sub-communities of entrepreneurs and social pirates–to build on your water analogy–each with their own circuit of well-loved events. I’d love to see more “pirate” collaborative events, e.g., between the vloggers, bloggerazzi, tech entrepreneurs, developers, and non-profnets (tech non-profits).
I know I’ve met some great developers at vlog events, and some top-notch PR monarchs at tech events.
Maybe we should co-host an “After-Party with Friends” event, where no one is ALLOWED to speak with anyone they already know until the after-party, and folks tag the name tag of who they’ve met to prove that they’ve met someone new — a kind of innovation upon Jeff Pulver’s creative name tag. Thoughts?