Last week was a great occasion for me because I got to meet one of the people that I hold in very high regard, the wonderful Nedra Weinreich! As a little background on Nedra, she has been involved in social marketing communications for over 10 years now with her own firm Weinreich Communications out in Los Angeles, CA. I have been a huge fan of Nedra’s ever since i began reading her Spare Change blog and learning more about social marketing.

I organized a meeting with Nedra since she was going to be in the Washington DC area for her Social Marketing University seminar that she is teaching. You can imagine how thrilled I was when I found out she wanted to meet up! Since she wanted to meet with some local bloggers, we decided to set up a Facebook page for the event to get the word out. We had some great people in attendance including Qui, James, the DC Social Butterfly, Tambra Stevenson of Creative Cause/Postcards for Katrina and even my colleague from NMS, Sam Huxley.

Apart from getting to know each other over appetizers and drinks, we delved into discussion about social marketing and creating changes in our community. The evening went extremely well and I couldn’t have asked for a better “real life” interaction with one of the greats!