Sisarina & Church in Bethesda are supporting the Fulton family by donating money & walking with Team Walking into Walls September 26 in Rockville. Together, we ask that you come enjoy the fantastic happy hour specials and bring your extra cash & change for donations. Plan to sign up for a 5k walk on a beautiful Sunday morning with your friends while showing your support for research to stop degenerative eye disease. Check out Sisarina’s recent blog post about the Fulton’s.

(Want to join us?  Register HERE.)

Happy Hour Deets:

WHERE: Black’s Bar & Kitchen
WHEN: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5-8pm
ADDRESS: 7750 Woodmont Ave
METRO: Bethesda (Red)
PARKING: Garage on Woodmont next to Black’s (accepts cash & credit cards)
WHAT: To raise $ & find walkers for Vision Walk Sept 26
WHY: meet some great people, support a cause & get happy hour specials
COST: FREE! (But bring cash to donate!)

SPONSORS: Church in Bethesda (walkers!), Marked Promotions (t-shirts!), Sisarina (event!)
REGISTER TO WALK: You know you want to. ;)

SPECIALS: from 5-7pm (so get there early!)

• $6 selected Martini’s
• $5 selected Red and White Wines
• $3.50 Blue Moon, Stella Artois, Smitwicks
• $2.50 Miller Lite
• Spiced Steamed Shrimp $.50 each
• Mussels $6.50 a small plate
• Fried Calamari $5.00 a plate
• Local Oysters 2 for $2.00

(Want to join us?  Register HERE.)

What is Vision Walk?

VisionWalk is the national signature fundraising event of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Since its inception in the Spring of 2006, the program has raised over $13 million to fund sight-saving research. As promising treatments move into critical human studies, the need for research funding is greater than ever before. Join the tens of thousands of people who have taken important steps toward a cure by participating in a 5K VisionWalk.

What is #DCTweetup?

#DCTweetup is a ‘non’-networking event for locals to put a face to a Twitter handle. It’s a relaxing evening of networking with your neighbors, local business owners and meeting new friends. This is not your typical ’state what you do & hand over your business card’ event. #DCTweetup is for the introverted & extroverted alike to share in great conversation, relationship-building and fun.

Check out Sisarina.com/events for other fun events!

Love doing good things while enjoying your friends and a fun venue? Come to Eden Sept 9 for an incredible happy hour in a gorgeous venue while supporting @SarahStanley with #CelebrationRide.

We’re making sure you get the hookup on great specials and free passed hor’s d’hourves so you can help Sarah with this incredible journey to raise awareness on childhood obesity.

(Want to go? Register HERE.)

Happy Hour Deets:

WHERE: Rooftop of Eden (@clubedendc)
WHEN: Thursday, Sept 9, 2010
ADDRESS: 1716 I St NW (entrance is at left of Cafe Asia)
METRO: Farragut North or Farragut West
WHAT: Happy Hour to raise $ for #CelebrationRide
WHY: meet some great people, support a cause & get great happy hour specials
COST: FREE! (But bring cash to donate!)
SPECIALS: Coming soon!

Raffles & Prizes:

Enter with your business card & at $5-25 donation.These lovely people/companies donated stuff!
- Design To Delivery (@D2DInc & @ddkurcfeld): Muscle rolling stick “toothbrush for your muscles”
- Rappahannock Cellars (@rcellars:) Two tour & wine tasting packages ($100 value each)
- Professional Pickup (@ProPickup): 4 hours ($200 value) of professional dating consultations
- Charming People (@kimthewriter): $30 toward anything in Etsy store
- SoWhatstheDeal.com (@whatsthedealdc): $50 coupon to The Reserve on L AND a 30-min massage to Skin Beauty Lounge

More prizes welcome! Let us know what you can donate! (Want to go? Register HERE.)

What Is #CelebrationRide?

WHAT: a solo cycling event from Washington DC to NYC
WHEN: The ride will take place September 14-19
WHERE: It will start in Washington, DC & go thru Annapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia ending in New York City
WHY:To celebrate Sarah’s birthday, raise awareness on childhood obesity, and funds for ING RFSB (Run For Something Better) program. To inspire the nation to live a healthy, active life!
CAUSE: ING RFSB
The Project: runrideinspire.com/the-project
Where’s Sarah: runrideinspire.com/wheres-sarah
About Sarah: sarahstanleyinspired.com/meet-sarah-stanley

Check out Sisarina.com/events for other fun events!

Escape the heat of an August night in DC at a cool venue with cool Tweeps!

DCTweetup15 promises to be another fun night of networking as some of DC’s funnest Twitter-ers gather at Policy DC to beat the heat and meet, greet, eat… and drink.

You know the rules: come to have a good time, leave with new friends. This is not your grandfather’s networking event.

WHERE: PolicyDC
WHEN: Tuesday, August 3rd, 5-9pm
ADDRESS: 1904 14th Street, Washington, DC
METRO: U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardoza (Green/Yellow)
WHAT: Happy Hour!
WHY: meet some great people, eat & drink great stuff & enjoy an evening out
COST: Did we say FREE?!
SPECIALS: Policy’s extensive happy hour menu includes $4 small plate appetizers & $5 drinks of all sorts

*RSVP HERE: http://dctweetup15.eventbrite.com/

Enjoy a hot mid-summer evening with us while drinking wine and sangria at Urbana Wine Bar & Restaurant. Meet some fun people, make business contacts and relax after a long day at work. Instead of asking people what they do, ask them what they love! They’ll answer – #DCTweetup!

WHERE: Urbana Wine Bar & Restaurant
WHEN: Tuesday, July 20th, 5-8pm
METRO: 2 blocks from North Exit of Dupont Circle (Red Line)
WHAT: Wine & sangria happy hour!
WHY: Meet some great people, eat & drink great stuff & enjoy an evening out
COST: Did we say FREE?!
SPECIALS: Urbana’s happy hour menu includes $5 sangria, $5 small plate appetizers & $8 pizzas.
RSVP: Here

What is #DCTweetup?

#DCTweetup is a ‘non’-networking event for locals to put a face to a Twitter handle. It’s a relaxing evening of networking with your neighbors, local business owners and meeting new friends. This is not your typical ’state what you do & hand over your business card’ event. #DCTweetup is for the introverted & extroverted alike to share in great conversation, relationship-building and fun.

(Check out Sisarina.com/events for other fun events!)

(Re-posted with permission from Liz @ Dogs & Wine)

Washington DC is a town that thrives on networking, face time, and happy hours.  You can’t go one night in the District without someone throwing some sort of event.  A benefit for blind diabetic cats from France.  A fundraiser for a halfway home for wayward Capitol Hill interns.  A happy hour for beleaguered non-profit employees.

For the most part, I tend to pass on quite a few of these gatherings because I am a boring person who really loves her couch to a point that it’s almost a bit unhealthy.

But then Social Media Day’s event at Science Club came along, and it is hard to turn down an event that uses a llama in its logo.

Llama says: “Just try and say no, Liz. I dare you. I double dare you.”

Now when it comes to social media, I am a house divided.  On one hand, I can Google your Twitter until your Yahoo falls off.  On the other, I find terms like “crowd-sourcing” and “conversation movers” to be completely pretentious to the point where I want to crowd-source my backhand across someone’s face.

But the llama… it called to me.

I answered.

That’s me in the upper right hand frame!  Evidence that I do indeed know how to socialize. Courtesy of @tyotoys.

In short, the event was fantastic.  Admittedly there were moments where I said things like “her strength is her ability to manipulate the medium”, which resulted in me almost throwing up a little bit in my mouth.   Overall, though, the night reminded me why social media is such a great thing.

Those of us who engage in social media tend to err ever so slightly on the side of egotism.  (I’m no exception. I think I’m awesome.)  We like the sound of our own voice so much that we are convinced other people must and will hear it.  We have shit to say.  We’ll divulge flaws, emote publicly, and poke fun at ourselves.  Sometimes in a long, meandering blog post, and other times in only 140 characters or less.

Bloggers/Tweeps/Whatevers are such a rowdy ever-expanding bunch, it was only a matter of time before people came along who tried to manage, label, and dissect what social media is and what makes those of us involved tick.

But when you sift through all the fluffy jargon and “Twitter optimization”-speak, social media is about exchanging ideas and having your voice heard.  Last night I got to talk with people who, without tools like Twitter and blogging, I would have never met.

Some inspired me.  Some made me laugh.  Some sang “Dayman” from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia with me, at the top of our lungs.

It was a hilariously amazing, awe inspiring, idea sharing, beer spilling, Jameson swilling evening.

And without social media, last night would have been just another night sitting on my couch, watching the episode of Law & Order where a guy found a painting offensive and killed someone over it for the third time.

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Thanks Liz!  Great meeting & chattin’ up with ya.

From twtvite:

Food for Thought isn’t solely an e-magazine it’s a community, and it’s in that same vein we bring you our very first happy hour. If our Twitter collective, Facebook alliance, IRL friends, and readers alike would congregate together on July 15th to tip their glasses to the simple fact that they’re alive it would please us to no end. We’re talking no frills, no prizes here, just us, and of course drink specials courtesy of HTC Clarendon. Come one, come all!

And Remember, “a good friend is cheaper than therapy.” – Author Unknown

(everyone is responsible for their own tab)

Where? Hard Times Cafe | 3028 North Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
When? Jul 15, 2010 | 6pm – 9pm

RSVP twtvite: http://twtvite.com/HHFFT
Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128080117214442

Blogger Happy Hours aren’t just for DC’ians! This go around we had 2 guest appearances – all the way from Los Angeles down to Atlanta.

Starting off at the ever-popular Front Page, our little group shifted over to a quieter bar across the street awaiting our celebrity arrival – Len Penzo.

Hanging around were:

Save Every Way (formerly Eliminate the Muda) – Greg was traveling with family and hating every moment.  Not because he hates his family, but since he travels for work – going to another destination is not his idea of a vacation.  Greg is “out da game” so to speak.  He sold Eliminate the Muda and is now focusing on Save Every Way.  Still has his secret side project going on.

Len Penzo – Len brought the whole family!  Father-in-law, son, daughter, & wife.  Hearing the origin of his site was an awesome story.  After countlessly being rejected from the LA Time editorials, he casually started his own site to be the soundboard that he was looking for.  The remaining musketeers were: Greg, Len, J, & myself.  We stayed for around 4 hours sharing various life & blog stories.

Money Relationship – Adam is like a thief in the night, always the first to leave the scene.  It seems we’re only having brief conversations as he always seems the first to go.  Always enjoyable since we talk about things beyond blogging.  Actually, last event his wife came with him and we talked about school and marriage.

My Next Buck – Poor Brian looked absolutely zonked.  If you have never met him then take the time to stop by and say hi, he’s great.  If there was a Big Brother program for new bloggers, he’d be the chairman.  Didn’t stay too long, had some personal obligations.  Did introduce us to another, non-personal finance blogger (more below).

Sweating the Big Stuff – Daniel is living large with his new header, check out his site.  Maybe next year’s Halloween costume could be a giant egg with sweatbands?  Once the site becomes large, you’ll have to hire an Egg Suit for promotional events!  Checked out the calculator idea Payscale stole from me on his new(ish) iPhone. ;)

Budgets Are Sexy – J Money… what do you say?  He’s still got that ridiculous haircut, still has an unbeatable energy, and has ideas out the wazoo.  Although we were across the table from each other, and in the same conversations, for the life of me I can’t recall something particular.

You’ll notice the attendees were all-male, until a DC fashion blogger – Closet Caucus – arrived courtesy of an invitation from Brian.  Somewhat out of our personal finance realm, we chatted casually about the fashion market and exchanged a few ideas on gaining more market share.

[Recap by Financial Engineer - Thanks!!!]

From Social Media Day 2010:

“Social Media Day is June 30 according to @Mashable so @Sisarina has partnered with @DCeventjunkie to bring you a fun evening at Science Club to celebrate! Gather your Facebook friends, your Twitter followers and your LinkedIn folks and come hang out with us for happy hour. Come meet your ‘friends & followers’ IRL (in real life).”

Where: Science Club
When: June 30 – 5:30-9pm
ADDRESS: 1136 19th St NW, DC 20036
METRO: Farragut (or Dupont) – Red line
WHAT: Social Media Happy Hour

SPECIALS all night!
$5 SoTini (super special martini just for us!)
$3 Yuengling
$4 Guinness, Amstel Light & Pabst Blue Ribbon
$5 Sauv Blanc & Carmenere
$4 Regular Liquor
Always delicious vegetarian cuisine

MUSIC: DJ Lil’ Elle will be spinning for us while we mix and mingle. We’ve heard she’s incredible. Come support local artists!

GIVEAWAYS: @ScienceClub will be giving away two $25 gift cards that night to lucky attendees so make sure to bring your business card for a chance to win!

EVENTS: Check out sisarina.com/events or DC Events Examiner for other fun events!

RSVP here: Social Media Day 2010

Hey thirsty bloggers! Welcome to Blogger Happy Hour 2.0 – our new place bringing you the hottest get togethers in DC (and by “hot” we mean “nerdy” because after all, we’re bloggers right? Right.)

We’re still in the process of revamping the site, but we’re hoping that with everyone’s help we’ll finally have a place to showcase all the up and coming get togethers. So if you’re in the know, give us a shout. Or drop a comment/link down below and we’ll add your Happy Hour up! You can become famous even.

And if you don’t like beer, that’s fine too. You like to eat, right? And meet cool people? We’re huge fans of networking and helping each other out, so you and your friends are always welcome. Perhaps we’ll be smooth enough to get these all sponsored one day too. See you soon!

-J$

PS: If there’s something you’d like to see here on the site, let us know! We’ll thank you buy buying ya a beer ;)

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(Illustration rocked by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com)

Brought to you by LiLu & crew:

“Uhhh, the title pretty much says it all. A half dozen or so awesome people from all over are, quite randomly, all going to be in the DoC on Friday, July 9th. Let’s MAKE IT HAPPEN, YO!”

Where: Vapiano –> 623 H Street NW, Washington, DC
When: July 9th-10th @ 6pm-2am
Organizers: @LivitLuvit, @ihatesomuch, @walkingwithnora, @smalls530, @mandyktd, @ashleytia

RSVP Here: DCAmazeBallsHH