Putting Smart Women in New Media

I feel all popular and urban because last night I had two parties/meetups to go to. First I went to the DC MediaMakers talk about the Browncoats movie. Then I could’ve either gone to Bus Boys and Poets – a really cool hangout/restaurant or to the Social Media Club’s holiday cookoff. I chose the cookoff.

When I arrived, the doorman was gone and the elevators require an access card to get to the floor where the cookoff was going on. A glamorous woman arrived at the same time I did. Some people were getting off the elevators, but didn’t have access cards for the right floor. Then the janitor got off another elevator. I asked him if he could get us to the fourth floor. He didn’t seem to understand me. So the glamorous woman spoke to him in beautiful Spanish. He took us to the fourth floor as Ms. Glamorous continued to speak to him in very pleasant Spanish.

I got her business card – I was feeling liberal with the business cards yesterday, since I was going to a Social Media event. I gave a card to someone on the metro who was having a conversation about sending a message around Facebook about a small concert she wanted to put on with her friends.

Ms. Glamorous writes citygirlblogs, which is a Sex In The City-esque story. The business card says it’s all true, but the story says she’s moving in with a guy she’s known for eight days. She seemed a little too smart to do that, so I’m not buying it.

Several other people from MediaMakers also horned in on the end of the cookoff. I missed pretty much the entire cookoff, but there was plenty of very good pizza left. And I made a few new Facebook friends; people I’ve seen several times at these events.