Dallas developers, designers, webprenuers & bloggers meet for Who’s Who holiday party in Uptown. Get the story on which Dallas online elite made the event and the games they played.
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This is a recent guest post I wrote for a friend covering an event we both attended. She is trying to grow a Downtown Dallas job, business networking & restaurant review blog. Get the full story with photos on www.SupportBigD.com. Reputable online Dallas news source Pegasusnews.com also reprinted my story.
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CoHabitat, a shared working space environment for start-ups, individuals and small companies, threw a holiday party with appetizers, games, drinks, dancing, and several of the Who’s Who of Dallas online media in attendance.
The location of the party was a historical house, located off of Thomas Street in Uptown, Dallas. During the workweek this house facilitates creative ideas and a social working atmosphere by bringing together businesses and freelancers who would normally be working from home alone. For a ridiculously low monthly rental fee, you can have your own office. After the workday ends this house becomes the perfect location for get-togethers, parties, and a relaxed less formal meeting-of-the-minds.
The folks at CoHabitat are a very open group and anyone with a Facebook account could have found the event and attended, much like all their events. As the saying goes like attracts like, and just because there is an open party with a kegerator doesn’t mean every frat boy and his dog would show up. Even at the parties, there is a lot of networking and techie-talk similar to Dallas Geekmeet only younger, more hip, to those networking veterans familiar with the Dallas scene.
[Inter]Networking in Dallas
I attended CoHabitat’s Thanksgiving party in November and their crawfish boil in March, both of which were a blast, especially the boil. In my experience, I can say these have been some of the best events for meeting other industry pros. I would not say it’s the best environment for finding business prospects if you are a sales person, but great for finding business partners and collaborators if you already have projects needing special expertise or would like to launch new ones using the fresh ideas and skills of a savvy group of potential partners.
Bev Garvin of the Dallas Interactive firm Urban Interact and Neil Lemons, myself, of Inbound Marketing Blog were in attendance. I met several iPhone application developers, designers, and database architects, many of which are already making a living with their own projects or getting close. There are those who are less technically savvy, more on the marketing, account, and social media side, like myself, which have always been made to feel welcome. Read full story & see pictures of Dallas tech party on SupportBigD.com.
