GSA Technology Council

Every month some new person asks me “Who comes to Tech After Five?” I thought this month I’d beat them to the punch and say, here is a partial list of who is scheduled to attend this month’s Tech After Five. There are some very interesting people on this list, and all of them need help in advancing their careers, professional goals, or businesses. Further, they are willing to help others advance their goals in exchange. Tech After Five is a win-win for them. Sign up online and we’ll be happy to have you as well.

Aaron von Frank, Adam Gautsch, Amanda Serra, Andrea Powell, Barry Garrison, Bill Bliss, Bill Dixon, Bob Brugnoni, Bob Sopko, Brent Nelsen, Brian Blount, Brian Irey, Bruce Morrison, bryan Lamb, Bryn Brutosky, Bryon Buonomo, Carm Huntress, Chris Brumback, Courtney (Steele) Byington, PMP, Craig Yerger, curtis harper, Damien Stevens, Dan Greenlee, Dave Lee, Dave Windsor, David Mason, David White, David Witter, Don Poinsette, Doug Anderson, Doug Lineberry, Dwight Vicars, Emily Padgett, Evan Solida, Frank Mattas, Greg Leiby, Hank Merkle, Hank Merkle, Jason Kelly, Jason Misztal, Jay Hope, Jeff Verkon, Jennifer Gerow, Joel Newcomer, John Gartrell, John Yeary, Johnny Gilstrap, Joseph Feser, Kelly Mickelson, Kristin Locklear, Lamont Toran, Leigh Green, Logan Metcalfe, Louis Stephens, Madeleine Muska, Marc Bolick, Mark Basanda, Mark Ferguson, Mark Potter, Marty Chlebowski, Matt McFadden, Matt Silver, Max Cochran, Mike Bork, Mike Locke, Mike Orr, Milton Ozmint, Natalia Muska, Nathaniel Lord, Nick Miller, Nicole Cendrowski, Pam Wessel, Patrick Greer, Paul Waters, Rachel Workman, Ralph Heredia, Randy Bidwell, Randy Burgess, Regina Irey, Richard Bivans, Richard Bryant, Rob Moser, Russ Davis, Sara Swander, Stacy Anthony, Stephen Davis, Stephen Harvey, Steve Wiley, Steven Wagner, Stijn Van de Velde, Susan Sebotnick, Terry Dailey, Thomas Woodham, Tim Mesaric, Tom Haas, tony sanchez, W. Clyde Fowler, and Zane Meadors

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are two pictures, made up mostly of words, that tell you who is coming to Tech After Five and what they are looking for.

Who is coming to Tech After Five this month?

What are they looking for?

via: Tech After Five

Thank you to everyone who participated in Tech After Five in 2009. Our second year for the program exceeded all of our expectations.

Attendance was record breaking, the reports of those who attended were glowing, and we also learned that startup entrepreneurs, tech professionals, and sponsors were able to make valuable connections. In short, everyone got more out of this event than we could have imagined. Thank you all for making it a success.

We wanted to make sure that you knew that we are taking the month of December off for Ta5 to give Santa and his elves time to recharge (and to free up Barley’s Taproom for someone else’s company party.)

Tech After Five is booked for January through December of next year at the same time and place. We will meet at Barley’s Taproom from 5:30 until 7:30 on the third Wednesday of the month. We’ll see you then!

In this episode of our podcast we share upcoming events in the week ahead, answer and share a review of the Motorola Android smart phone and present some interviews conducted during the October Tech After 5 event featuring John Yeary, Mike Gottenauer, Don Crews and Kirbe Crowe. Thanks for listening and don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via the iTunes link below.

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Everyone loves October — at least it looks like they do. We’ve got 200 people signed up for tonight’s Tech After Five Event, once again breaking our registration record by a healthy margin. As we always do, we asked everyone what they were looking for before they came. Here is a small sampling of some of their answers:

What are you looking for at Tech After Five?

• Web Designers, PHP Developers, Attorney, Mentors
• Network and socialize
• 10 good jokes
• EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
• Networking
• networking/ideas/education
• iPhone Fanatics
• People Ready to Think Outside the Box with a Progressive CPA Firm
• new gigs
• Business opportunities
• beer & backup solutions
• People to Twitter with
• I am a recent ITT graduate looking to start an IT career
• Recent ITT graduate searching for an IT position
• Website developers that could use a hand.
• Fun companies with budgets
• Collaborative Connections
• Tech folks who are interested in nonprofits!
• Business Prospects
• Converstations and opportunities.
• people committed to professional growth
• Expanding circle of contacts
• Security
• Good Backpacking Destination
• I am changing careers from advertising to technical writing. I am interested in meeting technical writers
• Someone who will embrace a demonstration of my product line.
• Interesting new ways to get work done.
• People who do things on the internets
• Contracts
• Networking with other Professionals
• SUNSHINE
• good examples of business-IT alignment
• An outstanding oppertunity for a recent IT grad
• Media Production and Editing Gigs
• Sharp .NET web developers
• Web Entrepeneurs
• People who broke their technology
• Tech Start-Ups, Software Developers & Chimney Sweeps
• More IT Jobs in the upstate
• EA Stuff
• A 216-digit number
• 10 good places to go in Amsterdam
• Organizations that have People Challenges
• A Zen Master
• You!

Come see us at Tech After Five

We’ve got the upstate’s only after hours, 100% networking event designed to exclusively connect tech entrepreneurs and professionals. We meet at Barley’s Taproom in downtown Greenville on the 3rd Wednesday of every month.

Next Event
Wednesday, Sept 16, 2009
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Thanks to Patrick Greer for the August Tech After Five photos. See them all on Flickr or Facebook.

We had a another door busting crowd at Ta5 last night. What’s more people kept coming up to me all night telling me how they were back to the event because they had made some connection at a previous event and were back for more. For those of you just catching the Twitter bug, we thought it might be useful for you to meet the 70 Twitter types who gave us their Twitter names at registration. If you’re looking for cool cats to follow on Twitter, this might be a great place to start.

Last night’s Ta5 Twitterati

@81bronco, @adamlandrum, @adampsg, @agautsc, @allella, @ancgroupinc, @BBRUT834, @billfox3, @bobbullard, @breezman, @brismith1966, @CallBrady, @Carolinabrookly, @ChrisRackley, @cimholz, @citygirlgvl, @DamienStevens, @danholz, @davidfort, @dmarc8, @doncrews, @Dunkard, @evantishuk,@fkleisch, @fleetfeetgville, @GoGADC, @graydesign, @hfhgreenville, @itgnet, @jakewhayes, @jasonlocke, @jasonlocke, @jchasefinch, @joefeser, @JRedd77, @jshanin, @jwert982, @jyeary, @LeeHarkins, @lettered_olive, @linkerjpatrick, @LixiBite, @loganmetcalfe, @lspearmanii, @murphster47, @NataliaMuska, @nhlord, @nickballinger, @paulw4000, @ppickleismer, @ProformaCMD, @pswaters, @reginairey, @richardsheehy, @rjbreen, @Robert_d_Artist, @Steve Paladino, @teamglr, @TheDougAnderson, @thesocialsavant, @ThinkHammer @twoodham, @tysinger1, @ultiweb, @untamedbeer, @upwardspiral, @Valien, @wdkrebs, @webaggression

As always you are invited to follow @ThinkHammer and @GSATC to keep up to date with what’s going on here.

Want to get more out of Tech After Five? Are you in a spot where need to make something happen in your business or career? Follow this simple advice before you even sign up and you’ll get more out of next week’s Tech After Five.

Now, you can register online.

We’ve got the upstate’s only after hours, 100% networking event designed to exclusively connect tech entrepreneurs and professionals. We meet at Barley’s Taproom in downtown Greenville on the 3rd Wednesday of every month.

Next Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM