THE LAB:GALLERY Presents INTERSECTION February 10-March 2, 2012
Three must know people… because they care. @Sarahprevette @Holaphil @JakRose
Posted on 21. May, 2010 by BrianSimpson in Community, Hotel
We are lucky here at the roger smith hotel to have an inspiring, creative and passionate group of loyal friends that support us on many levels. As a small token of our appreciation and in an attempt to repay what these people bring to our community, we will be featuring three new people every Friday as our ‘follow Friday’ list. Follow Friday, a concept born from the creative mind of Micah Baldwin, has lost some of what we believe Micah started it for, purpose. Do not get us wrong, when @RSHotel shows up in any #FF or #FollowFriday lists it is an honor. What seems to have happened though is too many people are trying too hard to pay homage to their friends without truly letting us know: who, what or why these ‘lists’ of people are worth following.
Week two of #followfriday or #FF is very special. You shouldn’t just follow Sarah because of her amazing work in the entrepreneurial world, Phil for his intuitive instincts and passion for location based utilities or Jason because he can connect you with anyone you may ‘need’ to know. You should follow these three because they have the natural ability to enrich your life, not your career, your life. As I sit on the Bolt Bus cruising up to Boston I am reminded that I moved to NYC two years ago and the friends I have made since are friends for life. Sarah, Jason and Phil are three of those people.
These are three people worth the ‘follow’.
Happy Friday and Enjoy your weekend!
Sarah Prevette a.k.a. Canada 
Entrepreneur. Startup afficionado. Founder of Sprouter
Company: http://sprouter.com/sarah
Website: http://sprouter.com/
Twitter: @Sarahprevette
Phil Di Giulio - PegShot
Bio : NY based entrepreneur interested in the influence of digital media on local economies. Co-founded @pegshot @wellcomemat Organize @futureoflocal
Companies:
http://realestatevideo.wellcomemat.com/
http://pegshot.com/
Jason Keath - Social Fresh
Bio Where we’re going, we don’t need roads… [Founder of @SoFresh]
Company: http://socialfresh.com
Social Fresh is a social media event and community company based out of Charlotte, NC. Social Fresh flagship events are one day conferences targeted for marketers, focused on case studies, and currently being offered across the country in under-served cities.
Twitter: @JakRose @SoFresh
Connecting two digital hubs, why I came to London
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Hotel
Hi Everyone, Adam Wallace (@adwal) here from London. I came here on a very last minute trip, not a lot of people knew I was going and I wanted to just take a second to explore with you why I came to London and why the Roger Smith Hotel is interested in connecting with London. It short, I saw that London has become a hub for the digital scene in Europe and the Roger Smith Hotel has become a hub for the digital scene in New York, so there seemed to be a clear opportunity to connect.
From New York over the past three months I have been able to see that there is a vibrant digital scene in the UK that is centered in London. The series of events that led me to a focus on the UK was when eConsultancy, a UK based Blog and community of digital marketers, wrote a profile piece on us at the Roger Smith Hotel. It was not the piece that they wrote, but the buzz that came after it. I realized how much credibility and influence they had and turned my attention to the UK. From there I modorated a great round table event that they put on in NYC and then started seeing other great things that were coming out of UK.
We became connected with Sarah Prevette who is the founder of Sprouter, a global online community of entrepreneurs. She hosted a few events with us where many of the people she brought in had ties to the UK. From her we met David Blumenstien, who led us to more ties in the UK digital scene. From David we got introduced to Chinwag, which is an organization which connects the UK digital scene. If you want to see just how vibrant the UK scen is, just take a look at their website’s list of events just for this week. The Roger Smith then hosted two events with Chinwag’s Digital Mission to NYC put on by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
Well, you get the idea, all signs have been pointing to UK as being the hub. So when Sarah Prevette invited the Roger Smith to be a part of a series of event here, it was clear that this is the place to be. In addition to furthering connections between NYC and London with these organizations, tonight there is a Microsoft BizSpark hoilday party and tomorrow I’m very excited to be a part of SproutUp London which is the book launch party for Gary Vaynerchuk‘s Crush It. It is going to be a very exciting few days and I am happy for the Roger Smith Hotel to be representing in London!
Following London I will be in Paris for Le Web (more to come on that soon!).
Why the Roger Smith is in London
Photographs from Roger Smith and Sprouter Meetup on the Terrace
Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Events, Henry's Roof Top, Hotel
We were so happy to host this small gathering on the roof terrace with friends of Sprouter and the Roger Smith Hotel. Thank you to Sarah Prevette and all who attended for a great evening.
