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US AIR GUITAR FINALS IN WASHINGTON DC

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I have been looking forward to tonight for some time. Back in June, I had the pleasure of judging the US AIR GUITAR regional at the 930 club. It was such a blast. Tonight, the madness resumes as we [DC] pick our representative to the World Finals in Finland.
I will not be judging tonight, I will be representing the geek girl/gov goth fandomonium in the crowd. I am looking forward to meeting up with the fast friends from last time and rooting for both “The Shred” and “Sanjar the Destroyer (STD)”.
Finals in Washington DC

Finals in Washington DC

NBC had some great coverage about the event I judged as a preview for tonight’s finals. Take a look, I show up in the video at the end showing my love for STD!!

The Washington Post also covers tonight’s debauchery…..
The US AIR GUITAR blog, also had an excellent recap of the June event. A hilariously fun read, but barely covers the insanity of the night. There are no words for what you experience in the crowd at one of these events.
And Mitt Umlaut, I will be looking for you tonight ;)
So come out, doors are at 8pm at 930 Club

Full-screen

930
815 V St NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 393-0930

Social Media Club DC – Mid-Summer Happy Hour (Tonight)

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I am pleased to announce that my company Navstar, Inc. will be sponsoring tonight’s Social Media Club DC – Mid-Summer Happy Hour [July 29, 2009 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)] at Bar Louie in Chinatown, Washington, DC.

This event is brought to you by Social Media Club DC and Navstar to introduce the new leadership team, including myself as Executive Vice President and Programming Director. I am very excited to be taking on this role for the team. I have already dived into the position and I can tell you great things are in the works for this fall, including a trip to wine country with DC Tech Adventure.

In lieu of a formal event for July, Social Media Club DC is getting together for a little networking, a couple cool drinks, and a lot of fun.

Please join myself, colleagues from [@Navstar and @CocoNavstar] at Bar Louie on July 29. We’ll be in the back room, with drink specials available for Social Media Club members. As of the time I am writing this I have not yet decided what I will be wearing – but I will have a nametag. I promise, even though we are in the middle of a hot one this summer I will wear my hair down. And those of you going by my twitter avatar pic who have not met me yet, let me warn you, my hair has grown out longer.

Aside from being a fun way to unwind with fellow DC geeks [nerds and technoweenies too!] after a long work day, the July event will also give you a chance to meet and share ideas with our new leadership team.

To RSVP, you can go to http://smcdcjuly.eventbrite.com/ (If the RVSP is sold out, you can come anyways as a guest of mine)

I am very happy to mark this occasion as a kick off to the new leadership team, some of which I am also meeting for the first time. Looking at the list of RSVP’s I see many names of people I have been dying to meet for some time. If you are wondering if you are one of those people, you are. So come say hi, seriously.

As my company is sponsoring my first event as Programming Director of SMC-DC, there will be plenty to nibble on for snacks and drink specials. [HH specials: $3 draft, $5 wine, $7 signature cocktails]. We will be in the back room so look for the Navstar Banner. In addition, remember to bring your business cards for a chance to win tickets to a Nationals game. These seats are amazing. I love that you are right on the first base line and if you care to know, a short distance from the drink stand. Let’s hope Teddy wins at the game you go to.

As a reminder, here’s the information on the new club leaders, so you can feel free to connect with them prior to the event, as always you can follow @smcdc for all the news and happenings.

Larissa Fair – President

Twitter – @lyf108

Andrea Baker – Executive Vice President and Programming Director

@immunity

Anna Gabert and Travis Mason- Vice President & Sponsorship Directors

@annagabert @tgmason

Sarah Wurrey – Vice President & Promotions Director

@sarahwurrey

Nisha Chittal, Meg Roberts, Sara Burson – Event Managers

@nishachittal, @megmroberts, @saraburson

Maia Kotlus-Gates and Beth McNamee – Membership Managers

@maiakg, @bethmcnamee

Gabriel Key – Digital Scribe/Content Organizer

@gabrielmkey

Event Logistics:

Wednesday, July 29
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Bar Louie
701 7th Street NW #D
Washington, DC 20001
202-638-2460

Connect with SMC-DC

Washington DC has its own wiki-in-progress. Please visit: http://socialmediaclubdc.pbwiki.com/ for more details.

Washington DC Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/smcdc

Hashtag: #smcdc

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2419741913

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1820071&trk=hb_side_g

Friendfeed: http://www.friendfeed.com/smcdc

Ignite DC Proposal – DC Women Rock

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Women Rockstars

Women Rockstars

I have submitted a proposal to use my 5 minutes at Ignite DC on May 14, 2009 to highlight DC Women in tech, enterprise, and social media. Please comment on the proposal if you would like to see this make it as one of the final 16 presenters. The organizers of Ignite DC clearly said they wanted to see more women submit proposals, so you can do that too. I figured I can use my time to promote more women.

Additionally, if you want to be one of the women featured in my 5 minutes presentation, please connect with me here in a comment on my blog or via twitter @immunity.

Thank you for your time.

She’s Geeky Northern Virginia is Less Than a Month Away

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The Girls of Shes Geeky NoVA at SxSWi

The Girls of Shes Geeky NoVA at SxSWi

Update: This event has been postponed until Fall 2009

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day.

INVITATION TO ALL WOMEN!!

She’s Geeky is coming to Northern Virginia – the DC Area.
April 18th McLean Virginia (Tyson’s Corner).
http://www.shesgeeky.org/

Early bird admission is $40 until April 1 – $45 regular until April 11 and $50 after that.
Student admission is $20

We are inviting women from a divers range of industries together for a day of interactive learning and industry cross pollination.

To us Geekiness is self defined – from those with advanced degrees in mathematics, science and engineering. To skilled programmers who are in large enterprises, government or startups. To women who have taught themselves how to code the PHP on their side bars on their blog or just super enthusiastic users of technology.

Each city has a different mix of technologies – DC has a variety of fields
* the nonprofit and advocacy sectors,
* government, defense, aerospace, and intelligence
* Web portals – like AOL
* startups innovating

The range of topics discussed is diverse – in California you can see the list of sessions.
http://shesgeeky.org/wiki/Sg2009wc:Notes

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How does the unconference day work?

The sessions are put forward by the women who attend the event – and are diverse. They include expert topics about their particular expertise, hosting conversations about issues of interest both technical and personal (like how to balance work and family), exploring start-up ideas, introductions or deep dives to different programming languages or frameworks, sharing stories about what it was like to work in the early days of the industry, introduction to public speaking and many others.

Beginning at 9 AM each day, we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, through a highly participative process, create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone there.

From there, we go to separate areas or rooms assigned to each topic. The session can be a presentation, inquiry about a question or discussion about an issue or technical field. or. One participant volunteers to record the proceedings.

The notes from each session are collected in the newsroom, then a book is compiled with all the notes from the conference and distributed to everyone who attended.

For this event, we have the pleasure of guest moderator, Jean Russell. This event is co-hosted by Amy Senger of LMI and myself, Andrea Baker, of Navstar, Inc.

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Sponsorship opportunities for both small and large companies are available too.

If you have questions you can e-mail us at info@shesgeeky.org

She’s Geeky Comes to Northern Virginia

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She's Geeky

Announcing She’s Geeky NoVA edition. Kaliya, Amy, and myself are organizing the first ever local She’s Geeky event to the DC/MD/VA area on April 18, 2009.

LMI – 2000 Corporate Ridge, McLean VA, 22102

Registration

You can find a ride coordination wiki page here.

If you are a geek and you are a girl, then you qualify to attend. The event is self-organizing by those who attend. An event inside DC proper off a metro line is being planned for later in the year for those who are not able to attend this event. But save the date and I hope to see you on April 18, 2009.
Follow the names above on twitter for more She’s Geeky news as it happens, as well as @shesgeeky for official news.

Update: This event has been postponed until Fall 2009

Get me to GovSec …

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govseclogoThe Expo and Conference is one week away and the big question is, will the Goverati be there? Even though it seems like March is the month of the BarCamp, please don’t let this event skip your radar. The organizers of the event have been reaching out to get their target audience using social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIN, and Twitter. This event is the perfect meat to the sandwich that was Transparency Camp last week and the upcoming Government 2.0 Camp at the end of the month.

The event is March 11-12, 2009 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. As a part of the bigger FOSE 2009 conference this is the part of the event you should focus on if you are someone with interests as my own with Transparency and Collaboration in Government. If you use Intellipedia, you might want to think about attending. First responders and those in Government security fields might not be reading my blog exactly, but if you know of someone who fits the bill and should attend, please pass along my blog and the link to the conference to encourage them to go. It is free to attend the expo for both GovSec and FOSE 2009 and if you have already registered for FOSE don’t sweat it, because you are covered for this event as well.

Louis Freeh, Former Director of the FBI

Louis Freeh, Former Director of the FBI

The former Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh will be the Keynote speaker of this event discussing the Convergence of Homeland Security on Thursday, March 12 at 9am. Mr. Freeh tenure as Director was during several major events that I can recall that brought national attention to the FBI. He was the director at the time of the infamous Robert Hanssen espionage case. Personally I am very eager to hear him speak about his time in office and his thoughts on the progression of the FBI and Homeland Security in a post 9/11 world.

Other sessions I am interested in are New Technologies for Interoperability, Cyber Security and Information Sharing , Terrorism and Information Technology and the panel moderated by Christoper Dorobek of The Daily Debrief on Federal News Radio.

Register today, and pass on to your colleagues.

FOSE 2009
March 10-12, 2009

Registration: 8:00AM – 4:00PM
Keynote Sessions: 9:00AM – 10:00AM
Expo: 10:00AM – 4:00PM

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001

Enterprise 2.0 for Government Event Feeler

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I wanted to put out a feeler for a conference I am planning on behalf of my company Navstar, Inc to happen sometime in June October* (as soon as I get a venue confirmed). The conference is already in planning mode, in fact I am heading to a dinner shortly to work on this in more details.

Target Audience and Goal

I would like the target audience to be High Level Government Employees with decision making capabilities, to the likes of Vivek Kundra and other Government CIOs, CTOs, and their staff. Ideally the end customer would be high level decision makers in Federal and Local DC Metro Government, as this will be somewhere inside the DC-Metro area. However, general participation is being planned for transparency and openness.

The goal of the event is to really make aware of other Government members of projects that highlight efficiency, collaboration, cost-effectiveness, and reusability. I would love to extend this to be bigger to include more areas of Government, but since this is the first time event, I would like to keep it manageable in the first run, with hopes that this turns into a bigger and annual event.

Style

I am looking to do the conference in the style of TED in which speakers/presenters can showcase their work/idea/thought/project with a 15-20 minute slot time. In addition, would be able to showcase their stuff in an exhibit hall for more of a deep dive.

I am also looking to see if there would be interest in a barcamp, if this was a multi-day event. Right now, I am thinking it would be 1-2 days depending on the submissions to present.

Content

This event is not to compete, but to continue and expand upon connections and networking achieved from the Government 2.0 Camp and will be promoting as well as soliciting presenters/speakers from that and other events. In general, we are not so much focusing on contractor solutions but tools and ideas that are in place now that are connecting the enterprise to meet the points I stated above.

As I mentioned, this would fit the specific purpose of communicating to decision makers and other programs of best practices, successes, and failures.

Sharing and virtual participation:

I was thinking I would run a live channel on mogulus with a twitter hashtag (#e20gov) and feed running on the program. I’m planning to keep this unclassified and transparent.

If you are interested in helping out (volunteering), presenting, or sharing ideas. I would love to hear from you.

You can reply here or follow me @immunity on twitter

I originally posted this feeler on Govloop and have reposted this here for maximum exposure and discussion. Please feel to ask me any questions about the event if it has not been covered already.

* Changed date to October to prevent June conference fatigued and to not compete with Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, in which I might attend.

Live Tonight Talking Government 2.0

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I know its late and there is the Skins vs. Cowboys game on, and yes True Blood and Dexter, but you can DVR all of that and talk shop with me. Tonight at 11pm EST, please join me live in a discussion where I will be a panelist.

For the twitter crowd who know what these @’s mean, you can follow along with the panelists in their streams and in the future.

Topics on Fire Podcast w/me (@immunity) @geechee_girl @leslieann44 @justinherman @casualrepartee @you2gov talking Gov 2.0 and social media and what it means for the Presidential Transition at 11PM EST. For the original scoop, you can read all the details over on Uptown Uncorked.

You can listen online and chat live with us adding your points as we “kick off the digital work week”, with our thoughts. This is great timing following President-Elect Barack Obama’s first post-election Interview that was on earlier tonight on 60 Minutes. I jotted down a few things he said and will probably try to bring up during our chat tonight.

And my apologies to our new Skins Corner DeAngelo Hall. My fat-fingered blackberry typing spelled your name wrong on an earlier “tweet” tonight.