I can’t believe it’s been a year since I started Digitally Chic with six other Bay Area ladies, but it has! Already! To celebrate, we threw our biggest bash yet, to which over 200 people RSVP’d and attended!
Our goal was to invite each of our members out for a fun night of celebration, as well as include those interested in the group who may not have had a chance to attend a meetup during the past year. We also chose a charitable organization to donate any money raised, as well as some special items, including an HP netbook.
I feel that we accomplished our goals and had a great time doing so.
Our theme was a one year birthday party, so of course we had some cute party favors for attendees to pose with. And our DJ kept the fun vibe we wanted going throughout the night by playing hits like ‘Return of the Mack’ (a personal favorite of mine). Needless to say there was definitely a group dancing down in front! There was also plenty of space for those interested in more of a networking atmosphere.
Our event wouldn’t be complete without our great sponsors, including Crystal J. Silk, Photojojo, ModCloth, and ThinkGeek! By way of raffle and Giftiki, we raised almost $300 for our charity of choice for the evening, Family House!!
I also announced the winner of the HP Vivienne Tam Mini 210 PC giveaway contest that I ran on my blog for the two weeks leading up to the event. After counting over 80 creative entrie, I was pleased to announce that, drawn at random, Marty Anderson won the netbook! Marty, the queen of finding great vintage pieces, will be modeling the netbook early next year for my blog.
It’s been quite the year of fun, fashion, learning, making new friends, gadgetry, event planning, brunches, and networking. Thank you to everyone who supported. Check out all of the pictures on our Facebook fan page.
Co-Founders celebrating with Amy Lenz, a representative from Family House
I love chic gadgets and in honor of Digitally Chic’s one year anniversary, I’m very excited to be giving away this brand new “digital clutch” first introduced during New York Fashion Week as part of Vivienne Tam’s Spring 2010 collection.
To enter the drawing, simply describe or show how you would style an outfit around this adorable gadget and register for the Digitally Chic Anniversary Celebration. All entries must be received by 12:00 midnight PST on December 1, 2011 and you must be present at the event to be eligible.
The drawing will be determined by the following types of entries: 1 entry for adding a comment to the blog post 2 entries for sharing this post on Twitter or Google+ (counted separately) 4 entries for creating a board on Pinterest inspired by the notebook 6 entries for creating a set on Polyvore using an image of this notebook 6 entries for creating an outfit post on a personal blog inspired by the notebook *All entries not including the blog comment, must include the hashtag #DCbday. **Only one submission per entry type will be counted
So in the next two weeks get creative! And then throw on your dancing shoes and come out and meet up with the DC gang at The Summit on December 2, 2011 for our biggest event yet!
Click the Eventbrite link to register, and to learn more details about the night. The night will include door prizes, raffles, dancing, and more. Excited yet?
Last Thursday, 6 of my close friends and I hosted another Digitally Chic meetup. This time we featured fashion and lifestyle apps from around the Bay Area whose creativity was shown through small group demos and one on one discussion.
Being silly with some of the DC co-founders after the event
Just one year after we met for drinks and realized we all had a love for fashion and tech in common, we’re 230+ members strong in our Facbeook group, but also have a public Facebook page (where all of the event photos are located) and Twitter account you can follow for more updates: @DigitallyChic.
And, we were very honored to have our Apps & Apps event featured in the San Francisco Chronicle!
What’s next? Our first birthday party! That’s right, we’re currently organizing our one year celebration, so stay tuned for details coming soon!
All of the DC co-founders celebrating Sharon's college graduation!
On Saturday I spent the evening running around San Francisco trying to find, among other things, strangers to Vogue with and a newspaper article containing the words “digital” or “chic”. Why in the world would I be doing these things? Because I participated in my meetup group’s first (and hopefully annual) scavenger hunt.
Fellow Co-Founders Ashley LaFerriere and Jennie B spent a month organizing the hunt by coming up with lists of tasks and goodie bag swag so participants could have a fun list of things to photograph, tweet, and grab around the city in hopes of winning some pretty cool things from hunt sponsors.
The group met at The Grove, a cute coffee shop (that serves champagne!) over on 3rd and Mission for a meet and greet, to divvy up the teams, and some pre-hunt photos.
#DChunt Attendees
And then, we were off!
I was put on a team with Sarah Long, a girl who found out about the hunt by a tweet a prior member of the group had made about the event (thank you Twitter!). We decided to name our team “Pretty Ambitions”, because of our blog names, Pretty Innovative and AmbitionS.
After Ashley handed out the envelope containing the task list, Sarah and I immediately completed one task, by getting a photo of the two of us jumping. Then we ran across the street to the Big and Tall store for a team prom style photo. After that, we decided to take a trip to the Westfield Centre (visiting stores that included Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Madewell, and Sanrio). We also went to places like the Four Seasons, Jeffrey’s Toys, tourist shops in Chinatown, and the Metreon to complete the rest. As time went on, Sarah and I were laughing harder and harder and it was easier and easier to walk up to strangers to ask for things. Here are a few photos of us starting off the hunt:
Deciding on our strategyTask: Photo of the team jumpingTask: Prom style photo of the team (Thank you Big and Tall store)Task: Photo of team Voguing with Three Strangers
To throw us off further, Ashley and Jennie tweeted more tasks from the DC Twitter handle while the hunt continued, two of which can be seen after completed below:
Mira completing Twitter Mission 1: Find Doug/@HansensSF at the beginning of Market St & tweet a photo w/the Hansen's ThingSarah and I completing Mission 6: Tweet a picture of all the items your team has collected so far
At 7:30,the final location was tweeted and teams had to meet there by 8 pm for the completed tasks to be counted.
Another team counting up their numbers with Ashley
And my team won!!!
With our bags of swag! (and my new feather clutch)
From Amy: “My favorite part was probably when we ran into a toy store to find a unicorn and a kid to hi-five. One boy was scared of us but then we found another boy and he was sooo excited to hi-five us!! He was trying to hi-five both of us before we could even take the picture. It was so cute! We were very excited to have won 2nd place! Our prizes were great. We got a 1 year membership to ZipCar, 6mo subscription to Tab Juice, $25 gift certificate to Starbucks, and a Gowalla tee shirt. This event was so much fun..can’t wait to do it again next year!!”
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