1. About TechLife Columbus Grassroots group whose mission is to foster a greater culture and passion for Internet, Social Media and other cutting edge technologies, ultimately leading to increased innovation. TechLife Columbus encourages our tribe to engage, energize, and innovate by binding existing groups together creating local online social spaces organizing in person events providing tools and mechanisms to become more informed and aware of what’s going in Columbus technology
2. A few factoids 1800+ meetup members - 3d largest (in the internet and technology category) in the world 2000+ LinkedIn Group members 30+ organizations enabled 750+ face to face gatherings held since Oct 08 850+ daily subscribers of blog – 4500+/month Community growing quickly through social media, collaboration, and face to face interaction strategies
11. Our first big event 2.0hio Event National speakers Reid Hoffman Judy Estrin Craig Newmark Brian Behlendorf Mike Nelson Fun fact and figures 0 – budget $ 4 - # weeks to organize 7 – bloggers at the event 50+ - tweets from the event 250+ - # of attendees on a Friday night Infinite – the feeling that we can do great things in Columbus
12. Contact Ben Blanquera Benblanquera@gmail.com Cell - 614-288-7004 Twitter : @bblanquera Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/benblanquera Sandy Blanquera sandyblanquera@hotmail.com Cell – 614-204-5090 Twitter : @sblanquera Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyblanquera Links Events - Meetup Group - http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/ Blog - To stay up date about local tech news - http://www.techlifeohio.com/ LinkedIn - LinkedIn TechLife group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1776905&trk=hb_sid... Facebook - Facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/techlifecolumbus