WNGCO Gets Shot!

Kathy Thomas, one of our members arranged for a photo shoot for all of us. Kathy is a project manager and webdsigner and a wonderfully creative person. She did some work with a couple amazing photographers and wanted to give us all the chance to have professional photos taken.

Janene Jaroscak owner of Trending Solutions was nice enough to let us use her beautiful home for the photo shoot. Our usual meeting place at Panera just wasn't going to work. So we all came over ready for our closeups!

Cory Piehowicz and Rainer Zeihm of Hello PZ were just amazing. Not only do they take beautiful photos, they are genuinely nice and fun. In no time they had even the most camera shy among us smiling, laughing and enjoying ourselves.

Thanks Kathy, Janene, Rainer and Cory for a fun night. I can't wait to post some of the pictures!

MeetUp + Twitter = TweetUp in Columbus

This past Wednesday Twitter came to life! I attended the Central Ohio Tweet Up. I was a little nervous since I was going by myself. I walked into the room and was greeted by a group of 5 or 6 guys who were friendly (thank goodness) and knew each other a little from Start Up Weekend.

A fellow twitterer described it as the Columbus developer/programmer crowd plus the public relations/marketing folks. The group was diverse but everyone I met was friendly, super smart and genuinely interested in finding out about others.

Lara Kretler is the “unofficial” organizer with Rocky VanBrimmer as acting MC and all around great guy. I’m glad they got the ball rolling. I’m looking forward to more meetings and of course getting to know the cool people I met there.

This group is also all about doing things, not just talking! There’s a site that tracks Columbus topics and events from Tweets – how cool is that? There's already talk about the next event so if you weren't aware, stay tuned into Twitter for the next announcement.