Dotcom Networking All Over Again
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Attended a networking event last night at BlankSpaces, hosted by Originate Labs and Mixergy. They even hosted Twitter-based interviews with author and tech journalist Sarah Lacy.
I’ve been heading to things like this on the online entertainment side for a few years now, but haven’t been to a tech-related event since my days working for Jupiter Media Metrix in 2000/01. Back then, I was fresh out of college, no idea what I was doing, and catching the tail end of the dotcom boom (and bust).
It certainly was exciting back then, and it was just as exciting last night. A room full of ambitious people invigorates me. Do you like networking? Does it scare you? It did me back in my younger days, but now the pressure is off: I don’t have to shine in that room. I can just be me.
It’s always funny who you meet at things like that:
- I saw Tim Street, who just wrapped an advertisement/video episode for mDialog, a video startup that has commissioned a series from me and Bob.
- I ran into a girl that recognized me from welcoming people at church.
- I briefly saw Jason Nazar, whom I interviewed for a Pepperdine Law video two years ago, and now runs docstoc.com, a web site devoted to sharing documents (“a YouTube for documents,” I think I’ve heard him say).
Jason even offered to buy Sarah Lacy’s book for the first 25 people who mention docstoc.com on their blog, and I hope I qualify. But more than just a cheap mention, I’ll take it one step further. I checked out the site and found it to be an immediate help in two areas:
- I searched for “online video marketing plan” and found some nice resources for developing my methodology for online video marketing, including doing some specific SEO on video metadata.
- I am hosting a seminar on resume-building at church later this month, and found some great examples of resumes from all kinds of industries.
Check out docstoc for yourself, and, more importantly, go to where people are in your area of business. It makes it all worthwhile.
I love it – sending you a copy of the book
thanks for the post and the thoughtful words