Network Solutions – Small business conversations and working together for small business success

Upcoming DC Area Social Media Events: Blog Days of Summer Edition

We’re in the dog days of summer (blog days of summer?), so things are supposed to be slow, although it just seems to mean there’s more time available for events, meetups, and other types of social media schmoozing and networking.
Here are a few things upcoming for the metro DC area, culled from DCTechEvents.com, Social Media [...]

Interview with Robert Neelbauer of Social Matchbox

As I mentioned in my Social Matchbox DC event review, I was able to grab a few minutes with founder Robert Neelbauer to talk a little bit about the evolution of Social Matchbox DC (unofficial motto: “Speed Dating for Geeks”) and how it fits in with (and sits apart from) other DC tech networking events. [...]

Event Review: Social Matchbox DC

Thursday, April 2, at the Tenley Campus of American University in DC, saw another sold-out edition of the successful Social Matchbox DC networking event, headed up by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer. (See Shashi’s event preview blog post.)

Washington Post tech columnist Kim Hart has a good event writeup, which features a photo from our own Shashi [...]

Upcoming March/April DC Area Tech and Social Media Events

In case you’re interested in meeting up with some of the blog team members (or more likely, have an interest in tech and social media-type events), here are a few things coming up in the DC area where there’s a good chance you’ll find us. (For more events, check out DC Tech Events and Gary’s [...]

Business Tips: 10 things you should know if you have to present your company to people

We recently attended a local event called Social Matchbox at the Teqcorner office in McLean, VA. On its eighth time around, the event is getting to be quite popular with around 150 people in a fairly large conference space. It was standing room only and with the A/C accidentally turned off at 5pm, it was [...]