GSA Technology Council

Tech After Five, a subsidiary of the GSA Technology Council and an organization that is dedicated to helping connect the tech community through after hours networking events, has launched its updated app for both iPhone and Android.

The free app enhances the Tech After Five experience for events in Greenville, Charleston, and Columbia, South Carolina; Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina; and soon in Atlanta, Georgia, and Dallas, Texas.

One of the app’s new features allows attendees to create a “Top 5” list of attendees they want to meet at upcoming events. The app sends the “Top 5” an email notification that someone would like to connect with them.

It’s easy for attendees to find and connect with the people they have met at past events using the app. Users can also find the next Tech After Five event in their cities and register online, without having to create a user profile.

The Tech After Five app was created by Worthwhile, a digital strategy firm with offices in Greenville and Charlotte. Worthwhile concepted and designed the app from the beginning with Tech after Five, and now is proud to release version 2.0.

Tech After Five and Worthwhile team members will present the new app at upcoming Tech After Five events, including September 11 in Charlotte and September 19 in Greenville. For more information on these and other Tech After Five events, visit the Tech After Five website. For more on Worthwhile, visit the Worthwhile website.

The updated Tech After Five app is now available in the iOS App Store and the Google Play store. Download it at the Ta5 App website.

The October 19 Tech After Five event in Greenville has been named the official after party for the premier 2011 InnoMobility Global Conference. The first ever InnoMobility conference focused on the global transformation of mobility will feature keynote presentations from the industry's leaders and innovators.

Sign up for Tech After Five in Greenville October 19 at Ta5 Greenville
Sign up for the 2011 InnoMobility Global Conference at InnoMobility

It looks like our first Tech After Five at the new Carolina Ale House was a success! We had over 300 register for the event! Thanks for coming, here are a few photos from last week!

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Sign up for the next Tech After Five here!

After 3 great years at Barley’s Taproom, Tech After Five is moving to bigger diggs. The Greenville Ta5 will now be held at the new Carolina Ale House (113 South Main Street in downtown Greenville).

We’re incredibly excited about our new location, and we think you will be too. Between the view of Main Street, the floor to ceiling windows that fully open, the grand open space, an impressive beer selection and the televisions from wall to wall; we cannot wait to host our first Tech After Five at the Carolina Ale House. We think you’ll find it a great place to make connections in 2011.

Join us!
The premiere Greenville Tech After Five at the Carolina Ale House has already passed. To check out what’s going on for the upcoming Tech After Five: Ta5 Greenville

It’s the last Tech After Five in Greenville of the year!

Get in the spirit of the season! Seal those year end deals, add to your professional network, and make the connections you need at Tech After Five in December.

Ta5 Greenville gives you opportunities to connect with peers and colleagues from Clemson University, Verizon Wireless, IBM, Synnex and more. Don’t miss out on your last chance to make a Ta5 connection in 2010!

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Show up a little early at Tech After Five and you can hear the latest news from Hitachi during their stop in Greenville on their Virtual Storage Platform announcement tour at Tech After Five! Show up at 5pm, instead of 5:30pm, to hear the presentation and have a chance to win some very special prizes.

Hitachi Data Systems is announcing the release of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP). Hitachi VSP is the only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types and the only storage architecture that flexibly adapts for performance, capacity and multivendor storage. Combined with unique Hitachi Command Suite management software, it will transform your data center.

People attending the presentation starting at 5:00pm will have a chance to win a Logitech Revue with GoogleTV.

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It’s official! Tech After Five is in Charlotte, NC!

Tech After Five is sweeping across the southeast and it’s next stop is Charlotte, NC. With successful events now in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, SC, the move to bring great networking to tech professionals and entrepreneurs now enters the Queen City.

What is it?
Tech After Five is a 100% networking event designed to exclusively connect tech entrepreneurs and professionals. We meet from 5:30 to 7:30pm for two hours of pure networking. People tell us that having the right people in their professional network is key to their success and we aim to facilitate that by providing events that help them make the connections they need to advance their businesses and careers. Come see for yourself. The event is free and we’ll event spot you a beer.

How do I RSVP?
If you RSVP Online and bring a business card with you the first beer is on us. This is about networking and getting to know your fellow tech professionals. Use the link below or explore the Tech After Five website to learn about our events.

When and Where?
Tech After Five Charlotte will be at the Black Finn American Saloon at the Epicenter downtown. We’re excited about this expansion and can’t wait to share our unique brand of networking with the movers and shakers in Charlotte’s tech scene. The first 100 attendees that register in advance will receive a free gift (in addition to that first beverage on us). Don’t miss the first Tech After Five in Charlotte. (Yes, you may pass this invite along to only your coolest friends, but space is limited. Implore them to register early.)

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We’ll be taking technology calls live at noon today on the ETVRadio stations in South Carolina. Whether it’s digital photography, the iPad, using wireless technology, or how to find a good home for your old laptop, you can give us a call.

WEDNESDAY October 20, 2010

A live call-in hour on the Internet and related technologies. Eric Rodgers hosts Phil Yanov, executive director of the GSA Technology Council and blogger at Thinkhammer. Listeners can call in via the tollfree number 888-539-8859 to ask questions about using the Internet, computers, new digital devices, and related topics.

The program is Your Day and it is carried across the ETV Radio Network. That’s 90.1 FM in the Upstate starting at Noon (or listen to the live web steam).

Also don’t forget, there are only a few hours left to register for Tech After Five tonight in Greenville. Register at Ta5 Greenville

Add Ta5 to your iPhone and win!
You can now use your iPhone to extend your professional network at Tech After Five. In September, the Worthwhile Company launched the Ta5 iPhone App and we’re enjoying it everywhere we go. Add it, register, and check in at the event and connect with everyone else at the event. Need more incentive? At Tech After Five this month, Worthwhile is giving away a $25 iTunes gift card to a lucky winner that has downloaded and checked in on the app at Ta5 in Columbia. Get the app.

Your old cell phone could save a life.
During National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, Tech After Five is collecting old and discarded cell phones, batteries and chargers at all of our October events for Verizon Wireless’ HopeLine program that helps victims of domestic violence. Each person that donates a phone at the event will receive an extra drink ticket.
For more information about HopeLine, visit Verizon Wireless – HopeLine.

Don’t miss out!

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