Featured Event: DC ACM Panel: The State of the Washington DC Job Market
The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (DC ACM)is a professional chapter of ACM has a wide range of IT professionals, and will hear from panelists representing various constituencies within the DC technology community tonight. This panel explores in further detail the regional characteristics (Northern Virginia, Maryland, downtown) and the types of employment […]
Join us for NY Times Bestselling Writer Dan Pink’s Presentation on December 10th
The team here at Jobmatchbox is sponsoring an event with NY Times bestselling author Dan Pink on December 10th and hope that you can join us. Dan is the author of three books on changing the world of work. His books include: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, A […]
LinkedIn Adds Event Listings & Recommendations
LinkedIn just added an event listings and recommendations feature that seeks to further engage users and potentially draw in new ones. The service will make event recommendations based on keywords in your profile, such as criteria, job title, industry, and other variables.
Event listings themselves are pulled in from sites than many people are already familiar […]
Featured Events
This week and next there are a couple of events that are worth attending for designers, developers and startup entrepreneurs in the DC area. Here they are:
Refresh DC, Thursday, October 23, 2008 (Jason Garber from Mixx on taking things from design to development)
Open Coffee DC, Monday, October 27, 2008 (Two DC based VC’s and a Launchbox […]
Social Matchbox DC - Registration is Open
Social Matchbox DC Q4 2008 registration is now open. The event is to be held at a new location that is both metro accessible and convenient for people coming from both Northern Virginia and Maryland. We have already had three Maryland companies sign up to participate and we expect more shortly.
The event brings in members […]
Don’t Wait, Sign Up For BarCamp DC 2008 Today
If you haven’t heard of BarCamp, but work in the DC area startup space then you should sign up and ask questions later. Registration is here. Please note that the while this is a free event, it is a limited space venue (again this year) so seats will go fast. You don’t want to be […]
Recap of Last Night’s Social Matchbox
The third ever Social Matchbox was a success. We had about a dozen new companies including recent graduates of the Launchbox Digital incubator program here in DC as well as from the greater Mid Atlantic region. We broke the format up into two segments - companies hiring and companies doing demos.
Here are our photos from Social Matchbox (Shashi’s photos here). […]
Social Matchbox 3 Announcement
We have heard from a lot of people asking when the next Social Matchbox will happen. Every company that I’ve talked to since the event has told me that they hired someone who they met at the event so it is worth having another one. With this in mind we are working on the next event, […]
Social Matchbox Update
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 […]
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