2010 in pictures – Year of sharing and learning

Good start with meeting Jason Falls January - Social Fresh Nashville  organized by @jakrose Jason keath	Jen Sterling, Heidi Kalett and Roger Hewlett in the January - Women In Technology January Lunch Bunch Panel	My First Wizards Game - Wizards Vs. Lakers Game in DC Jan 26th with @cheeky_geeky and Geoff Livingston. (Thanks Geoff)
With Nicole Nolte and Jenn Conner February - NVTC Social Media Committee February  event	Raj Malik @rajmalikdc Mike Mauseth  @kikscore and Steven Fisher helped me and Network Solutions organize the February - Social Commerce Camp DC	I gave the keynote for the Frederick Chamber New Media Conference February and made new friends Thanks @jesshibb
@nakeva Nakeva Corothers organized the DC Twestival March 2010 with an amazing team of DC friends	Social Reputation Management Conference organized by www.bdionline.com and thanks to my friend Maggie Soloday for taking this picture	SMCRVA meet March 2010 And making new friends. Thanks Dough Meacham and #RVA folks
Listening to Sal Khan at Gel Conference 2010	Launch party of Complete Idiots Guide to Social Media Marketing Launch party (112)	Visit to the University of Maryland as a future Terp parent
Meeting Tom Peters In real life March at Debbie Weil’s #Sweetevent	Shel Holtz said at the  Social Media Plus 2010 where I presented on Social media marketing for small business	Thanks to Ken Yancey of SCORE I once again attended National Small Business Week DC. Also met my friend Rieva Lesonsky who spoke at this conference.
The Amazing team at SmallBiztechnology.com with Ramon Ray, Laura Lietes and Beth Silver	Shama Kabani’s book launch at SXSW The Zen of Social Media Marketing	With the amazing @netsolcares team in Hazleton PA
Sobcon 2010 in austere presence of Chris Brogan and JJ French of Twisted Sister. This is a must attend conference	I met my friend Paul Swansen in Denver where I had gone to speak at Affcon. Thanks Kit Seeborg for organizing a meetup.	Honored to be part of the Women Grow Business #wgbiz bootcamp  organized by SHonali burke @shonali held as part of #DCWeek
Visiting the beautiful Rocky Gap State Park in Maryland with parents visiting from India	My son learnt the art of self portraits	With Rohit Bhargava and Sameer Vasta at the Corporate Social Media conference in New York. met good buddy Aaron Strout there as well.
Speaking to Georgetown students on Build your brand and build your career. Questions from this event lead to a article in smallbiztrends.com	Experiencing CISCO’s telepresence for the first time at Global Social CRM community worldwide event (16 countries) Thanks @glfceo Tatyana Kanzaveli	Meeting Mashable Friends Brian Dresher , Adam Hirsch, Sharon Hirsch and Brett Persel
Red Cross Crisis Data Summit – Geoff Livingston a good friend with Wendy Harman of Red Cross.	Puerto Rico is not only beaches – El Yunke Rain Forest	Nationals Game with Raj and Rebcca Malik and Asha
At Blogworld #bwe10 with Chris Heuer and Becky Carroll at the Network Solutions lunch	Optsum Dallas - @zaneology @conniereece @ck and @mackcollier – Thanks Tammi Siewruk @multifamilypro and Duncan Alney @firebelly	#sswoot Conference in Hawaii networking on top of a mountain in Kauai Hawaii. Jenn Mathews has a new concept in her conferences at http://wappow.com
GrowSmartBiz Small Business Conference – Marie Johns – SBA Deputy Administrator , Alex Orfinger publisher Washington Business Journal and Miles Reidy COO and CFO Network Solutions	My colleague Susan Wade and Rieva Lesonsky Spekaer, entrepreneur and editor of GrowSmartBusiness.com among other ventures.	My first appearence on TV Here with Morris Jones of TBD tv news Channel 8 talking about the GrowSmartBusiness Conference
Met again with Jay Berkowitz of tengoldenrules.com at Affcon 2010 Miami where I spoke on Social media analytics	Holiday Breakfast Tweetup : Gaithersburg and book launch event for Beth Schillaci’s “Your Social Media Roadmap”	Ended the year with a meetup  organized by Mike Neumann. Was great to beer and cheer with Shawn  Collins, Matt Milula, Vid Luther, Kara d'andrea Soluri, Sheila Scarborough, Keith Casey, Jennie lowev, Eizabeth Quantanilla, Haley ODom and Sridhar Yakkanti

See more 2010 pictures on my Flickr stream. How did you remember this year ?

It was the night before New Year at the Flying Saucer Austin – actually 2 nights before

it was a nice and relaxing Austin vacation for me visiting family Dec 2010  seeing the kids running around the house and playing. Taking the vacation even further, was the meet up organized by Mike Neumann @mikeneumann at the Flying Saucer in Austin. Great chance to meet old friends and make new friends.

• Mike Neumann @mikeneumann we were friends on Twitter and then met at a lunch in Austin
• Keith Casey @caseysoftware http://www.blueparabola.com I met him on the internet on the chat room of Johnny GoldStein’s Show and then IRL at my first Social Media Club DC  http://www.shashi.name/2008/02/social-media-club-dc-meeting-february.html
• Kara Soluri  @karaandrea we met at my first SXSW in 2008  http://flic.kr/p/4xkPRe
• Sheila Scarborough @sheilaS of @Tourismcurrents http://www.tourismcurrents.com
• Matt Mikula @Internetmatt http://www.artrogue.comwe have a common friend Ben Cook @skitzzo
• Shawn Collins @affiliatetip AffiliateSummit.com (over 3k folks attend and has rich and varied content)
• Sarah Vela @orchid8 Cofounder and CEO, HelpAttack!
• Elizabeth Quintanilla @equintanilla Social Media Ambassador , Texas Glider Pilot Scuba Diver Speaker http://eqconsultantsgroup.com/site/
• Jennie Loev @jennieloev of Jloev consulting
• Haley odom @HaleyOdom Austin, She did not look like a Bad speller ( on her Twitter profile)  I do . http://haleyodom.wordpress.com
• Vid Luther @vidluther My buddy and Network Solutions alumni now a Zippykid

Very interesting SlideShare Zeitgeist 2010

SlideShare Zeitgeist 2010

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