If you missed it and you are interested in finding who was there and what happened - no worries because Scott Stead was on hand and interviewed most of the attendees. His videos are shown below.

The Interviews

Justine Lam ………….. Back to the future: How the internet brought the grassroots back
Frank Gruber …………Social media and blogging
Nick O’Neill…………… Branding and Promoting
Voxant…………………… Online video
Justin Thorp …………..Widgets 101

Frank Gruber co-founder of TECH cocktail will be speaking about social media and blogging and making some references to its use in the corporate environment of AOL, Tribune and Classified Ventures where he has lead blogging & social media initiatives. Nick O’Neill of Social Times and a TECH cocktail D.C. 1 co-host will also be speaking in regard to building personal brand. Justin Thorp another TECH cocktailer will be talking about widgets as community manager at ClearSpring. Voxant a sponsor for TECH cocktail DC 2. Interestingly, all three of these fellows will be hanging out in Chicago May 29th for the TECH cocktail CONFERENCE!

Social Rockstar Workshop

Where: Busboys and Poets 2021 14^th ST. NW DC
When: Friday, May 16^th 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Tickets & Info: Register here

$15 pre-registered, $25 at door

Aside from hosting our popular mixer events and our upcoming conference, both of which are “cocktails of tech people,” we are working on some other community projects and need a hand. Do you have a son, daughter, friend neighbor, relative or sibling in college that needs to get some experience on the ole’ resume? Let us know - they will learn a lot and get to meet some great people all across the country.

Here is a more formal internship job description:

TECH cocktail (http://www.techcocktail.com), a community building startup, seeks highly motivated, outgoing and enthusiastic interns for Spring and Summer 2008 to assist in producing a conference, monthly TECH cocktail mixers in various cities across the US and other community projects. Ideal candidates are excellent problem solvers, self-starters, go-getters and multi-taskers. Candidates should possess strong organizational skills, be tech savvy and have a knack for keeping up on the latest tech happenings. An eye for design could be helpful. Interpersonal, verbal and written skills, as well as the ability to take a joke, are also required.

TECH cocktail is a community building startup that offers a series of mixer events, community projects & conferences open to bloggers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and other business professionals interested in the technology arena. Our mission is to amplify the technology signal in under served markets and have fun doing it. We’re a fun and laid back team, but we work hard and are looking for someone who can keep up and even challenge us.

Looking to get started asap! We need 1 intern in Chicago and 1 in Washington, D.C./Northern VA - but would work with interns remotely on projects too.

You will work hard but you will have a blast and meet some of the best people from the tech industry. Come work with us!

Candidates must provide a resume and cover letter. Please send an e-mail (cofounders@techcocktail.com) and put “INTERN” in subject line.

TECH cocktail CONFERENCE

The goal of the conference is to assist attendees by bringing them essential business startup tips, advice and knowledge from a super-cast of successful founders, developers and entrepreneurs.

If you have not purchased a ticket to the event at the early bird low price of $225 you should do so now, as supply is limited. If you want to save a little bit on the ticket simply use the discount code: techcocktailers since we are trying to make this event as easy and low cost as we can, while still covering the costs associated with hosting an event of this nature.

The conference agenda is as follows:

• Building a business anywhere (not just Silicon Valley)
• Leveraging new technologies and social media to help your business
• Getting your business funded
• Discovering your Inner CEO
• Growing a community around a traditional business

Some of our speakers include the following, with speaker bios here:

MIKE DOMEK - TicketsNow / Ticketmaster
DICK COSTOLO - FeedBurner / Google
JASON FRIED -37signals
HARPER REED - skinnyCorp / Threadless.com
GARY VAYNERCHUK - Wine Library TV
GENEVIEVE THIERS - Sittercity
KEITH SCHACHT - 42 Friends
NICK FERA - Parlano / Microsoft
BLAGICA BOTTIGLIERO - CondoPerks & Gals’ Guide
JEN CONSALVO - AOL
MICAH BALDWIN - Lijit
JARED GORALNICK - AwayFind
DAVID ARMANO - Critical Mass
MIKE MACADAAN - AOL
ALEX BARD - Goowy Media / AOL
ROB SCHULTZ - IllinoisVENTURES
BRUCE N. BARRON - Origin Ventures
DALIAH SAPER - Saper Law Offices, LLC
MATT SHOBE - FeedBurner / Google
EVAN BROWN - Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
SEAN AMMIRATI - mSpoke / ReadWriteWeb
ANT CREED - Intuit
TROY HENIKOFF - Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
ALLAN COX - Author of Your Inner CEO
JASON REXILIUS - HostedLABS
DANIELLE WILEY - Edelman
MATT MCCALL - DFJ Portage Ventures
BRIAN SOLIS - FutureWorks
BRIAN WILLIAMS - Viget Labs
GEOFF LIVINGSTON - Livingston Communications
FRASER KELTON - AdaptiveBlue
BRAD FELD - Foundry Group
KIRK WOLFE -MK Capital
GARY BARRON - Frost Ruttenberg & Rothblatt, PC
NICK O’NEILL - Social Times
JOHN ZERASKY - FeedBurner / Google
FRANK GRUBER - TECH cocktail / SOMEWHAT FRANK / AOL
ERIC OLSON - TECH cocktail / DFJ Portage Ventures

If you have already registered for TECH cocktail CONFERENCE we have badges. Help spread the world for TECH cocktail CONFERENCE! Copy the code below the image you’d like to use to promote TECH cocktail CONFERENCE on your blog or website! Thanks for helping.

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AwayFind - a product aimed at helping combat the email problem by letting your contacts get in touch with you via an online form.

iGala - a digital photo frame with a touchscreen interface that connects directly to Flickr and Gmail to stream photos to the frame like a slideshow.

Loladex - offers local recommendations from your trusted network of Facebook friends.

Odeo - launched a new beta verision which offers both search and personalized content (audio and video) recommendations.

Voxant - a free licensed content offering for publishers which offers a pageview based revenue share to anyone that embeds the content on a their site.

WhyGoSolo - a new social networking site aimed at helping you to create spontaneous new connections so, as its name implies, you won’t go solo any longer.

We could not put on an event like TECH cocktail DC 2 without the support of our sponsors which included AOL, Viget Labs, Voxant, Network Solutions and Jess3 - thank you. Stickers for TECH cocktail DC 2 were provided by StickerGiant.com.

The very talented D.C. local photographer Raoul Pop captured the evenings happenings in his photos - check out the TECH cocktail DC 2 Photos.

Updated: You can also check out this TECH cocktail DC 2 video (below).

Here are the details:

Event: Refresh DC April Meetup: Startups 101
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008(7:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Location: Strategic Analysis, Inc.
3601 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 600
Arlington, VA

For full details, including attendance, visit: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/473721

A panel of personalities from the DC startup scene, including Andrew Lee of Publi.us (who still all work in a house, literally), Sean Greene of LaunchBox Digital, Eddie Frederick of Hungry Machine, Brian Williams of Viget Labs, and Eric Rupert of Odeo. It’ll be an hour of discussion around the challenges of starting your own business, and thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of the different ways to do it. It should be an interesting time!

I hope to see you there … I plan on sneaking out to it prior to working on some last minute TECH cocktail DC 2 prep work.

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One of the startups showing off its stuff at TECH cocktail DC 2 tomorrow, WhyGoSolo, wants to showoff a little early to make its demo tomorrow night have a bigger impact on the DC community and better connecting people together at the event. Simply get yourself a WhyGoSolo Handshake for the event which basically means that someone else is going to agree to attend TECH Cocktail DC 2 with you but keep in mind you still need to RSVP here for TECH cocktail DC 2. Visit WhyGoSolo.com (create an account if you don’t already have one) and create a listing for TECH Cocktail DC 2. Here is an example of a listing from Keith the CTO of WhyGoSolo. Send it to Twitter and add it to your Facebook profile and see who is interested in joining you. For example, here is a link to Keith’s listing – that has already been Handshaked.

I’m guessing this could be kinda fun – especially since it opens up the ability to meetup with a few new people online before and then in reality at TECH cocktail DC 2.

TECH cocktail is a “cocktail of tech people” looking to help amplify the technology signal of the local community and what better way to do so than to showoff some of the great new startups in the area. The following companies will be demonstrating their products and services in an expo-style at TECH cocktail DC 2: AwayFind, iGala, Loladex, Odeo, Voxant and WhyGoSolo.

See you there. Also if you are up for it… our friends at Lijit Networks are hosting a breakfast in DC on Friday morning. Come hangout from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sign up here.