Posted By Elliot Volkman on Dec 31, 2013 | 5 comments

Welcome to DC’s first non-profit focused on the advancement of the digital space, created from your friends at Social Media Club DC (SMCDC).

Over the past 5 years, SMCDC has hosted an event each month that focused on social media. During that time it was easy to see that while social media is important, it’s only one small part of the digital space, and as a result we have decided to expand our mission. As of today, Social Media Club DC is being retired and our new organization will move forward under the Digital District name.

So, what’s new?

We will still host our monthly events and happy hours, but the themes will now have a greater emphasis on topics that relate to digital marketing, communications, public relations, customer service, development, design, and anything else that touches the digital space.

Each month we will have a networking happy hour, at least one panel, a Web-based event for members, and begin offering in-depth training to organizations. On top of our expanded regular schedule events, we have several philanthropic programs being put in place, such as a partnership with GWU and offering our time to work with seniors to get them online. You can learn more about Digital District’s plan to increase DC’s digital literacy in our press release. We have also created a partnership, so the experts on our leadership team will now be available to assist you on projects as well.

• New name and logo
• Expanded mission and tagline
• New website with improved event calendar
• Addition of Web-based events for members
• Several philanthropic partnerships and programs for the DC area community
• Expanded purpose of our panels, and the format to include more interactive elements

Annual Memberships

After a few years of requests, we can now officially offer annual memberships. The memberships will grant you access to all of our panel and Web events over the year, and we’re looking to partner with great tech companies to provide you direct access to their products for free or at a discount. New benefits will be listed as we expand our membership program.

To kick things off and help us fund our new organization, we have created an Indiegogo campaign. Because you all will help us develop and expand, we will be offering new regular members a discount. There are also sponsorship discounts as well. Please note that we are also offering several other membership types, based on your needs. You can check out the new membership information here.

Join Digital District now via Indiegogo!

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