Earlier this week, we started the New York Viral Media Meetup. We did
it because we weren't aware of any meetup or group that addressed our
particular subsector of the media and tech world in NYC.


I've been really excited by the response to our first meetup, which is scheduled for next Thursday, as well as the groups quick membership
growth. The event is filled up (our office is not that big) but we
will send the live webcast link to all members of the meetup.

I'm a big believer in community and open source entrepreneurship. I
like being open and find I benefit from it professionally and
personally. But you need the right community to be open with.

Buzzfeed really sits in the middle of media, ad tech, and tech; and I
was surprised to see how many other group members are in the same
spot. For me, I'm hoping that the group will help me get more into the
advertising and marketing parts of out community.

So I hope you join the meetup and please let me know of you have ideas
for it and want to host an upcoming session. We really could use a
larger space as we filled 40 slots pretty quickly and I'm sure we
could have done 100.

Also if you'd like to speak at September's meetup let me know. I think
we'll do a mix of pitches and talks. I'm going to look to keep the
whole formal portion of these meetups to under an hour, maybe less.
That why if you want to get home to your kids you can, or you can
stick around and chat afterwards.