I’m amazed that even after roughly 7 days straight of inauguration parties something like 1,500+ people came through the doors for Twin Tech III. Here are some of the highlights, media and buzz about the event:
1) 2023 people registered for Twin Tech III and an estimated 1500+ people came through the door. The RSVP page has been viewed 13,626 times.
2) Zvi Band‘s tweet-stream-powered LCDs caused #twintech to top the twitter buzz charts for hours
3) Jared Goralnick took some great pictures and left them on flickr for us and Nick Strocchia created a bunch that we put in the iStrategyLabs Facebook Page here and here
4) Our friends wrote the following:
[Washington Post] Networkers Are on a Roll by Kim Hart
Contribune at Twin Tech III | Contribune Community
And then there were three: Twin Tech III event review | Network Solutions
Why sharing your pictures can get you into the Washington Post
Plugged-In: The Wheels on the Bus Go ‘Round and ‘Round
Mike Subelsky’s Blog: Baltimore’s Internet Economy as I See It
Twin Tech 3 – a set on FlickrPicasa Web Albums – NVTC – Twin Tech III
NVTC and I are syncing up shortly to talk about the if/when Twin Tech IV happens (they’ve been busy with Michael Dell in town). More soon.
Comments
Was a damn good time, and I’m looking forward to IV. Preferably when it’s warmer!.
Thanks for helping putting this event together and connecting all of us together.
If Twin Tech IV happens? I realize it is probably a lot of work for you and the team from NVTC to put together, but you have to keep this going. You’ve put together a fantastic event.
That being said, now might be a good opportunity to consider ways to innovate on the concept. While exciting, a happy hour with 2,000 attendees creates challenges beyond finding a space big enough. A few other members of the DC tech community and I were talking about this: while going to Twin Tech inevitably leads to great conversation with some really interesting people, we were disappointed to find our interests were almost always unrelated to those we introduced ourselves to. While it is definitely healthy to enjoy listening and talking with people without any networking designs on them, there also must a way to help people find conversations with new people that nevertheless correspond to their interests.
Looking at the application Zvi put together gets one thinking about what could be possible. Any ideas?
That’s great feedback. Here are a couple thoughts:
1) I think Twin Tech should always be a light-touch big happy hour. It a necessary component of a thriving technology community to have something with that kind of lack of structure and lack of ‘desired outcomes’. Maybe it will evolve but who knows.
2) I really hear you on the need to better match people with affinity for specific things as well as those that want/need specific things. I’m basically alluding to the need for a dating site for geeks + a marketplace for their talent. I could probably build that a number of ways…what do you think?
I agree that DC needs the “light-touch big happy hour” especially given the attendance of TT III and interest in TT IV.
Are you thinking the marketplace app would integrate with TT’s attendee list (even if not not affiliated with the event)? … it makes sense to tap into that community since it is both old and new tech in DC.
This world needs more information like this.