The best way to reinforce online connections is to take it further offline. Atlanta is a great city and I have great memories of a previous trip there in 2008 and 2009. 

In advance of the 8th Annual Moving Your Business Forward Conference: Part II  taking place on July 28th we are having a tweet-up happy hour to get together . Metro Atlanta Small Business, CRM junkies, Twitterati, Social media citizens are welcome. The top agenda is to socialize and get to know one another. This is a blogger meetup and everyone pays for their own drink. Objective is to get together and have a nice time.

Please help by passing this info to others in Metro Atlanta.

Hastag #tavern99

Note: Check out 8th Annual Moving Your Business Forward Conference: Part II .Free to attend. 

Any questions please tweet to @shashib or @brentleary

Location : Tavern 99

Brent Leary:

Brent Leary is Co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, a CRM consulting/advisory firm focused on small and mid-size enterprises. CRM Essentials has trained thousands of business people on the benefits and best practices of implementing CRM strategies and technologies. CRM Essentials also works with corporate enterprises and government agencies to build programs aimed at informing minority and women owned business of the importance of understanding the positive impact of CRM. Their client list includes Microsoft, Salesforce.com and the State of Georgia. 

Using the term community relationship management as the "other CRM", CRM Essentials is the creator of the CRM2 Index, a quarterly survey of women and minority owned businesses gauging CRM awareness and adoption. CRM Essentials also the founded the annual CRM2 Awards identifying women and minority business owners who have successfully implemented CRM strategies, as well as to honor members of the vendor community making meaningful contributions in the minority business community in terms CRM education, awareness and adoption.

Shashi Bellamkonda Network Solutions

Shashi Bellamkonda is the Social Media Swami (otherwise known as: Director, Social Media) of Small Business hosting and marketing tools provider Network Solutions. After several years of enriching experience in the hospitality industry which also included being a chef, Shashi transformed his hobby of computers and technology to his career. Working in areas like Customer service, Program  Management, Product marketing and Product management. Shashi helped launch Network Solutions website building and mobile tools.

Shashi Bellamkonda  was featured in Washingtonian's Top 100 Tech Titans list in Community and Thought leadership: http://bit.ly/ttshashi and the
Washington Business Journal called him the Social Listener http://bit.ly/wbjshashi

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