Cocktails.com and Reno Social Networking

While Tech Alliance didn’t have the official domain name cocktails.com, these Reno events were my first introduction into social networking…the kind you do in person. At the time, I was a project manager with Twelve Horses and was wet behind the ears in getting out in front of people. The nice thing about these events was that they were approachable. You could hang out, have a drink, listen to a short presentation and you didn’t feel obligated to do much more.

When Twelve Horses hired away the driving force to these events, Michael Thomas, the events eventually died out. When they came back as NCET’s Tech Thursdays, they were different – not bad…just different.

Now that I am tucked away down south in Phoenix, it seems like there is an attempt to recapture the mood of these meetings. David LaPlante has posted about WiFi Wednesdays on his blog. I hope to coordinate a few trips to Reno to attend these new events. Combining effort with the new Reno-Tahoe Young Professionals groups will make these events even that much more better.