SpeakerBox Gets Into the Holiday Spirit and Attends 'The One Party'

Last night, a few of us (Lisa Wells and I) headed downtown to kick off the holiday season by attending The One Party. Co-hosted by the Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington, Advertising Photographers of America-DC Chapter, American Marketing Association-DC Chapter, Capital Cabal, Capitol Communicator, Potomac Tech Wire and Production Club of DC, both levels of Eye Bar were filled with holiday cheer, and in lieu of presents attendees participated in the exchanging of business cards. Donning festive name tags, where attendees could dress them up with Santa, snowman and snowflake stickers, the networking event was a sure-fire way to mix and mingle with many of the DC area's premier advertising, marcomm, technology, public relations, media, interactive and design organizations.

In addition to hearing "wow, SpeakerBox is everywhere," I also got to meet someone who volunteers for DC Central Kitchen and she'll actually be joining DCCK to do design work on the Web site, as well as graphic design and fundraising/event planning (talk about a jack of all trades). Her passion for the main cause of the organization: defeating hunger for the homeless in DC--has inspired me to do the same! In our e-mail exchanges this morning, I've learned that I can participate in an evening co-op shift, during which I would chop vegetables and get to meet other volunteers and a lot of the rotating cooks in the kitchen that graduated from the culinary training program.

Paul Duning, Capitol Communicator's very own, got a snapshot of us at the fun-filled event (From left to right: Jessica Rhodes, freelance PR professional; Jackie Gilbert, SpeakerBox; Lisa Wells, SpeakerBox).


Thanks for having us!

- Jackie Gilbert