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Plan Now For New Years in DC

May 3, 2011 By


Social networking organization Professionals in the City organizes more than 1,000 events each year at the best clubs and restaurants in Washington D.C.   The more than 200,000 members get together to meet, mingle and have fun at events like the upcoming Art & Wine Festival, Beginning Golf Clinics, and organized trips overseas. They also organize a lot of speed dating events, but many of their members are couples or spouses as well. Whether you are interested in exchanging business tips, learning something new, exploring the city, or finding friends or romance, Professionals in the City has something for you.  If you live in DC and love going out and having fun, Professionals in the City has some info for you about their New Years Eve DC party.

You’d think it was too early to make plans for New Year’s Eve, but Professionals in the City already has their New Years Eve Washington DC gala planned, and boy do I wish I was going! Taking place at the Washington Hilton, the meeting rooms at the Hilton are being transformed into an around-the-world cultural adventure. Which room would be your favorite?

  • Italy’s Sleepless in Venice, where singles can enjoy speed dating, always one of our most popular New Years Eve Washington DC activities.
  • Latin Fusion Salsa Room, where couples can take Samba lessons, and everybody can dance the night away to our live salsa band at our new year’s eve washington dc gala.
  • Bay of Biscay Nightfall Ball, where you can celebrate at our New Years Eve Washington DC gala with renowned Lady Gaga impersonator Athena Reich, who will perform live and will lead the midnight countdown
  • Bollywood Hills Underground Club, where a live DJ plays the latest Bollywood music, costumed entertainers perform, and professional dance instructors teach you the latest Bollywood dances at our New Year’s Eve D.C. gala.
  • Asian Fete – Fountain of Youth, where you can ring in New Years Eve Washington DC surrounded by exquisite Asian music and culture.
  • Austrian Dancing with the Stars, where a live band offers you an opportunity to brush up on your dancing skills at our Washington D.C. New Years Eve gala.

See? Doesn’t that sound so fun?  There’s also a buffet dinner served, open bars with plenty of champagne, karaoke, and more.  Tickets go quickly so make your New Years DC plans now by visiting www.prosinthecity.com!

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Yoursphere Post #2 – What are Spheres?

July 16, 2010 By

For my second post about Yoursphere for Mom Central, my assignment was to have Nathan check out Spheres, which are groups kids can join where they can also upload their own content. Spheres come in these categories:

  • Music
  • ourWorld
  • Causes
  • Sports
  • Gaming
  • Fashion
  • TV & Movies
  • Academics
  • Animals
  • Art & Photography
  • Travel & Places
  • Performing Arts
  • Notebook

Nathan joined the Music, Gaming, and ourWorld spheres. Spheres can have images, videos, and posts about that topic. Only kids 18 and under can participate in Yoursphere, and all postings are strictly monitored. So you can be sure your kids won’t see anything inappropriate!

Once your child joins a sphere, which they do just by clicking a button, they can create a sphere of their own, as long as it fits within one of the above categories. Nathan chose to create a Sphere within Music about his favorite band, Daft Punk. If you want to check it out the URL is http://yoursphere.com/s/27208.

What I like best about the Sphere creation process is that it’s very similar to a blog page, but way easier to customize. There’s a main content area plus left and right sidebars, and any can be dragged and dropped to a different section of the page. It’s easy to customize the background of the page with a solid color or upload a background image that will tile across the screen.

For an image for Nathan’s sphere, we just went to Google Images, stuck the image into My Pictures, then on the Sphere page, browsed to the image and uploaded it. Easy peasy!  Check out Yoursphere for yourself and use referral code YSMC-0040 so that they know you came from a Mom Central reviewer. Thanks!

Finally, I showed Nathan how to join another user created Sphere. On any Sphere page, on the left side is a list of spheres created by users in that category. Nathan joined the Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare under the Gaming category.

What makes Yoursphere unique from other social networking sites for kids is the ability to do so much customization. And the fact that I can log in to my parent account and see everything Nathan does, from creating spheres to posting comments.  Spheres are a fun way for Nathan to share his interests and find others who share them too!  Check out Yoursphere for yourself and please use referral code YSMC-0040 so they know you came from a Mom Central review. Thanks!

I wrote this review while participating in the Yoursphere Test Drive program by Mom Central on behalf of Yoursphere. I received a free lifetime Gold membership on Yoursphere.com, Yoursphere t-shirts, and a $50 American Express gift card to facilitate my review.

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Spock-Search, connect, have fun

March 14, 2008 By

Social networking can be a valuable tool for making online contacts as well as informing others of your web presence. However, depending on what you are looking to get out of a social networking site, you might want something more professional than, say, MySpace or Facebook. Personally, I only have so many hours in the day, and while I do like to have fun, I also want to present myself in a more professional fashion online. Which is why I’m a new fan of Spock.

You start by setting up your profile page, my Spock page is here, and then you can add a description (I’ve re-written mine about three times), tags, and photos. To get started finding friends, there’s a link to click that searches your accounts on Yahoo, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, and/or Myspace for people you have as contacts on those sites that are also on Spock. You approve the contacts and they become your “trusted friends”. You can also do a people search to find specific people who have created Spock pages. I searched for Barack Obama and was happy to see he has a page.

Spock also functions as a community. Other people can add tags to your profile (similar to BlogCatalog), and you can “vote” on whether they are accurate. If anyone reading this wants to add tags to my profile, or create an account and add me as a trusted friend, please feel free! Just be kind :) And have fun doing a people search-I found people I went to High School with as well as some former co-workers.

I also like the search feature, there’s an option to put a search link on your browser toolbar, so you don’t have to first go to the Spock homepage in order to search for someone or something on Spock. Very cool. Spock is a useful social networking tool as well as fun to use. I highly recommend it as another way to increase your visibility online.

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