I’m going to have to give up on recapping Social Media Breakfast-DC. You can either blame or thank Alex Priest (@alexpriest) for that … take a look at his recap of our March Breakfast — Blogging the City. I joke that if he continued to write such great recaps, people would stop coming to the actual event

Thanks again to our great speakers:

To Tom and Tiffany Bridge (@tbridge and @tiffany) from We Love DC (@weloveDC) for sharing their undying passion for this city with us and for teaching us that DC is like one of those friends you love — and when they date great people you feel happy for them but when they date terrible people you have to show tough love to let them know

Tto Amy Melrose (@amymelrose) from Free in DC (@freeinDCblog) for being genuine and for reminding us that DC is rich in culture that other things unrelated to politics, which she let’s us know about every day on her blog.

To Matt Rhoades and Luis Gomez (who was there in spirit!) from Borderstan (@borderstan) for sharing stories about their little piece of DC, where Dupont, Logan Circle, and U Street intersect; and for teaching us that blogging your neighborhood can make you (and your dog) a local superstar.

Finally, thank you you Frank Gruber (@frankgruber) and Jen Consalvo (@noreaster) for sharing the news about Digital Capital Week (@dcweek), 10 days of creative technology events, which will hit DC this summer, on June 11 – 20.

If you missed the breakfast, check out the live stream recording and a few of the pictures from the event. We hope you an join us next time!

Stay tuned for our April breakfast. Information will be posted on our EventBrite registration page: http://socialmediabreakfastdc.eventbrite.com

And another shout out to our March AND April (yay!) event partner:

Tungle.me:

Tungle.me makes scheduling meetings easy–across organizations, calendar systems, and time zones. Tungle.me is a free personal scheduling application that eliminates costly double bookings, time zone mishaps, and the endless

back and forth of finding a time to meet. Tungle.me synchronizes with leading online calendar systems and does not require registration.

If you have registered for the March Social Media Breakfast-DC, here is what we have in store for you! If you haven’t yet, there is a very convenient button at the end of this post After you meet our speakers, we are sure you’ll want to come!

Join us at Busboys and Poets (14th and V — U Street Metro) on Monday, March 1 at 8am. You are invited to have breakfast with the DC/VA/MD social media community and to share your thoughts about this month’s topic: Blogging The City. Our speakers will talk about popular sites and social media channels dedicated to aggregating the best (and warning us about worst) that DC has to offer. Come hear more about how our speakers are using the Web to help us make the most of what the district has to offer offline.

Meet our speakers (the bloggers!)

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Tom and Tiffany Bridge are 2 of the several co-founders of WeLoveDC.com. He runs his own Mac IT consulting business, Technolutionary LLC, and she’s the Web Content Manager at the American Pharmacists Association. Both lifelong computer nerds, they’ve each been blogging since 2001 and joining every flavor-of-the-month social network ever since. Believing strongly that the couple who geeks together stays together, they can often be found IMing each other links on matching Apple laptops from either end of the same couch.

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Amy Melrose is the creator of Free in DC, a local Arts and Events blog where shares her inside view of DC as a rich, vibrant and creative community filled with fabulous things to do every day that don’t cost a lot! She began blogging in the fall of 2007 and works as a freelance business coach helping local businesses with messaging and new media. You can visit her site at freeindc.blogspot.com or follow her on twitter @FreeinDCBlog.

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Borderstan is a neighborhood news blog that covers Dupont-Logan-U Street. As it says on the landing page, “Borderstan is the crossroads of the Dupont Circle, Logan Circle and U Street neighborhoods.” The blog covers general neighborhood news, local businesses, arts, crime and dog-related issues. There is a particular emphasis on the 17th Street, 14th Street, P Street and U Street corridors. Borderstan has evolved from a purely public safety and crime blog that started in 2008 and was devoted to a tiny strip of the neighborhood around 15th Street. The co-editors are spouses Matt Rhoades and Luis Gomez. Rhoades works in corporate communications and Gomez is a self-employed photographer and photojournalist. Gomez has own photo blog, One Photograph A Day and their dog, Lupe is featured in If She Only Had Thumbs. As befits the name of the blog, they live on the cusp of the Dupont and Logan neighborhoods.

Want to get involved?

Please leave a comment or send a tweet using the #SMBDC hashtag or contact @smcdc via tweet, DM, email (socialmediaclubdc [at] gmail [dot] com) or pidgeon if you wish to be a “Head of Table” at our March event. Essentially, you are volunteering to ignite conversation at your table and let others pick your brain during the Breakfast.

Click below to register and feel free to leave your comments or reach out to us if you have questions, suggestions, if you would like to help with the event, and, if you would like to serve as a Head of Table.

There are only 42 spots left! We look forward to seeing you!

A special thanks to our event partner:

Tungle.me:

Tungle.me makes scheduling meetings easy–across organizations, calendar systems, and time zones. Tungle.me is a free personal scheduling application that eliminates costly double bookings, time zone mishaps, and the endless back and forth of finding a time to meet. Tungle.me synchronizes with leading online calendar systems and does not require registration.

Thanks to everyone who made it out to our pilot event in January! We are officially ready to roll.

Join us at Busboys and Poets (14th and V — U Street Metro) on Monday, March 1 at 8am for our next Social Media Breakfast-DC. You are invited to have breakfast with the DC/VA/MD social media community and to share your thoughts about this month’s topic: Blogging The City. Our speakers (list coming soon!) will talk about popular sites and social media channels dedicated to aggregating the best (and warning us about worst) that DC has to offer. Come hear more about how our speakers are using the Web to help us make the most of what the district has to offer offline.

Want to get more involved?

Please send a tweet using the #SMBDC hashtag or contact @smcdc via tweet, DM, email (socialmediaclubdc [at] gmail [dot] com) or pidgeon if you wish to be a “Head of Table” at any of our breakfast events. Essentially, you will be volunteering to ignite conversation at your table and let others pick your brain during the Breakfast. And don’t worry, we don’t mean this literally.

To keep the event from selling out quicker than everyone who would like to attend can find out about it, we will release tickets in waves three weeks prior to each Breakfast event — 50 tickets will be available with each wave for a total of 150 tickets.

If you’d like to eat, which we hope you do, $10 (cash please) is all you need to get in on the delicious breakfast options … The information and new friendships you will walk away with, priceless.

And remember… We are always looking for partners and sponsors to keep food costs to a minimum (or even better, FREE). Please let us know if you or your company is interested in sponsoring any of our Social Media Breakfast events. If you would like more information, please email us. Thank you in advance!

Click below to register and feel free to leave your comments or reach out to us if you have questions, suggestions, if you would like to help with the event, and, if you would like to serve as a Head of Table.

We look forward to seeing you!

Flickr user daquellamanera

Other than to say thank you to our speakers: Geoff Living (@geoffliving), Shashib Bellamkonda (@shashib), and Alex Howard (@digiphile); our Heads of Table: Andy Carvin (@acarvin), Daria Steigman (@dariasteigman), Shonali Burke (@shonali), Josh Greene (@josh_greene), and Mike Schaffer (@mikeschaffer); and our guests! … there is not much left to say.

Our inaugural Social Media Breakfast DC (#SMBDC) was terrific!

Don’t believe me? Alex Priest did an AWESOME job recapping the event here.

A day before the Breakfast, Alex wrote a blog post version of his Breakfast presentation titled “Trends and challenges for social media in 2010.”

Before leaving for the Breakfast, Geoff posted a “Get Mobile Now” manifesto on his blog.

After the event, Shashib recapped the discussion and included a Flickr slideshow with pictures of the breakfast on his Examiner blog.

One of our Heads of Table, Shonali Burke, wrote a post about the Breakfast table talk, the engaging crowd and the new friends and connections our guests were made that morning.

Thank you all! You have us COVERED!

Check out our event pictures, courtesy of Rachel Rule (@rachelrule), Social Media Breakfast Co-organizer.

More pictures from Amy D. Phillips (@amydpp).

You’ll notice, no one looks groggy

Stay tuned for the next breakfast in early February. Information will be posted on our EventBrite registration page: http://socialmediabreakfastdc.eventbrite.com

Flickr user amydpp

PS: Check out Alex Howard’s awesome Breakfast presentation on “Social Media in 2010″, which he made using Prezi.

DC’s inaugural Social Media Breakfast (#SMBDC) is this Monday, January 25 at 8am at Teaism on Penn Quarter. We were overwhelmed by the great response and though our inaugural event is sold out, we hope many more will tune in to our live stream and join the conversation: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/smbdc

Next week, we will talk about Social Media in 2010. With January practically behind us, what trends or predictions do you believe will prevail? How can we be visionaries in a space as dynamic as social media?

Without further ado, meet the speakers who will help us start 2010 on the right foot:

* Original copy courtesy of speakers’ blog sites and Google Profiles.

Geoff Livingston (@geoffliving): Geoff co-founded Zoetica, a social enterprise that provides superior communication consulting, training, and strategy to help mindful organizations affect social change. He has worked as a public relations strategist in the Washington, D.C. region for more than 16 years. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s award-winning book on new media “Now is Gone” was released in 2007. The book has been cited by the Wall Street Journal as a valuable resource for social media. He continues to blog about communications on the Buzz Bin. He sold his social media boutique Livingston Communications to CRT/tanaka in April of 2009. Some of his professional experiences include United Way of America, Save Darfur, the Goodwill of Greater Washington, Environmental Defense Fund, Live Earth, ChildFund International, the Campus Kitchens Project, the Philanthropy 2.0 Project, Network Solutions, Sully Erna (Godsmack lead singer), and many others.

Shashi Bellamkonda (@shashib): Shashi works at the heart of Web hosting company, Network Solutions, as their first-ever ‘Social Media Swami’ (Director –Social Media). He has helped Network Solutions move into the online space to actively listen to and interact with its customers. Shashi has presented to several audiences on ” ‘Social Media Tools for Small Business’, ‘How to Sell Social Media to Your Boss’ and “Online Reputation Management – Best Practices & Lessons Learned”, at national and regional conferences. He writes a regular DC Social Media Marketing column for the Examiner and has been featured on the Washingtonian magazine’s “Washington’s Top 100 Tech Titans list,” the Washington Business Journal and other publications. Shashi also blogs about social media technology and the coolest new sites and tech-toys to check out. Shashi lives for technology, testing new innovations and helping people with small businesses to succeed. A self-described ‘Internet junkie’ and thought leader.

Alex Howard (@digiphile): Alex is the associate editor of SearchCompliance.com at TechTarget. His work there focuses on how regulations affect IT operations, including issues of data protection, privacy, security and enterprise IT strategy. Before moving his focus to security and compliance, Alex was the associate editor of WhatIs.com, an online IT encyclopedia. In that role, he researched and wrote about nearly every aspect of enterprise IT. Alex is intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking (he was an #IronChefDC participant in December 2010), the great outdoors, books, dogs, and media, in all forms.

Talk about setting the bar high, huh?

Meet our Heads of Table:

Speacial thanks to: Andy Carvin, Daria Steigman, Shonali Burke, and Mike Schaffer, who will lead conversation at their tables after our speaker’s kick the morning off. Feel free to pick their brains while you enjoy breakfast.

Important notes:

If your plans have changed and you will not be able to attend, please let us now as soon as possible. This way, we can give our hopeful guests on the waitlist the chance to attend the event.

Don’t forget to bring $10 for breakfast. We promise deliciousness.

If you’d like to serve as Head of Table to lead discussion at your table, please let us know by Twitter mention or DM (@smcdc) or email us at socialmediaclubdc@gmail.com. We still have two spots left.

And as always, we are looking for sponsors to partner with us in order to keep food costs down. If you are interested in sponsoring this or any future Social Media Breakfast, please contact us.

See you Monday!

Social Media Club DC is kicking off 2010 with a a brand new event. But if you are reading this post you already know what I’m talking about…

Social Media Breakfast, which has already been widely successful in 37 cities in the United States and Canada and has now come to #38 — Washington, D.C. The event invites members of the social media community, regardless of profession or level of proficiency, to eat, meet, share, and learn.

On Monday, January 25 at 8am, Social Media Club DC (SMCDC) will hold its first-ever Social Media Breakfast DC (SMBDC) at Teaism on Penn. Quarter. The event is free and the Club is actively seeking sponsors to keep food costs to a minimum for all attendees.

In order to make sure that all seats were filled, SMCDC selected a moderately-sized venue for its inaugural breakfast. The event, which sold out less than 24 hours from the moment it was announced on Twitter, promises to grow and become a new early morning tradition for all members of the VA/DC/MD social community.

Those who can’t make it can tune into the live stream at: http://bit.ly/SMBDClive

On its first month, SMBDC will discuss Social Media in 2010. With January practically behind us, it will be a good moment to get together to revise resolutions, predictions and gear up for the remaining 340 days of the year. The event speakers, who will be announced on the SMCDC blog in the coming days, will kick off discussion and then, volunteer “Heads of Table” — will ignite conversation at their tables and continue discussion.

Anyone interested in sponsoring the event or serving as a “Head of Table” can contact SMCDC via Twitter (@smcdc) or email socialmediaclub@gmail.com.