Social Media Week NY 2010 – Obliterati Party
February 5, 2010
Filed under Event Planning, Review
Social Media fans created a “foursquare swarm” at last night’s Obliterati Party at R Bar in New York City. Hosted by Random Night Out’s Nick McGlynn and part of Social Media Week, the party was a fun gathering and reunion complete with a step and repeat, numerous photographers, free drinks courtesy of Beefeater Gin and gift bags featuring a webcam courtesy of Skype (and the Snickers bar wasn’t bad either).
After being greeted by the always energetic Oz Sultan, Damien Basile, Digital Somethings (who I am pretty sure made it out to every single social media week event per foursquare), the bubbly Manisha Marberry, Mr. Youth and twitter-happy Zachary Adam Cohen, I made my way over to the red carpet with Nick McGlynn to be snapped by the lovely Leora Israel, Vayner Media.
Other attendees included:
Toby Daniels – ThinkSocial and Founder of Social Media Week
Dennis Crowley and Harry Heymann – Foursquare
Brian Stelter – New York Times
Justine Goodman – Citysearch
Sarah Kunst – Guest of a Guest
Seth Porges – Popular Mechanics
Flavie Bagnol – Thrillist
Rachel Sklar – Mediaite
Kevin Kearney – Hard Candy Shell
Rex Sorgatz – Fimoculous
John Carney, Joe Weisenthal and Vince Veneziani – Business Insider/Clusterstock
Obliterati was sponsored by: Citysearch, Digital Somethings, Thrillist , Beefeater Gin, Skype and Random Night Out.
Obliterati is a monthly event, held in NYC focused on new connections and networking between social circles in various media scenes. This event is specifically targeted toward old and new media, public relations and the web 2.0 crowd. It is designed to encourage networking between circles and promote mutually beneficial relationships which will help drive the industries as a whole forward.
- Leslie Richin
Photos courtesy of Leora Israel
Lauren Cannon on Fri, 5th Feb 2010 11:00 pm
I had a blast at Obliterati! This was my first one, and I’ll definitely be in attendance next month. Here’s a post we did on ploked for Social Media Week – http://bit.ly/anyA1k
Dreyton Jordan on Sat, 6th Feb 2010 1:15 pm
I got to do what I do best and that’s socializing. I met some very interesting people. Oh btw, there were some HOTIES IN DA HOUSE!
Zachary Adam Cohen on Sat, 6th Feb 2010 6:12 pm
“Twitter Happy” Love it, thanks for the mention and for covering Leslie. This community really rocks and I am SO thrilled to be a small part of it!
Manisha Marberry on Tue, 9th Feb 2010 10:39 am
Thanks for the shout-out! It was great to spend time with old friends and meet new ones throughout Social Media Week. The Obliterati Party at R Bar was definitely one of my favorite events!
Mike on Fri, 19th Mar 2010 11:17 am
Does anyone know where all the photos from that night got posted? I am sure lots of people (myself included) would love to see all the door shots.
Thanks guys
@GizaMike (tweet the link if you have one)