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If you live here in Central Florida, are in a tech or tech-related industry, and you haven’t heard about doterati yet, let me introduce you. doterati is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is, “to advance the Central Florida interactive marketing, media and technology community by serving as an association for professional development, education, community networking and overall inspiration for our digital society.” We are well down the road to doing just that. There are a lot of people involved including myself, Dan Kinchen, Mark Krupinski, Greg Rollett, and Tara Lamberson. There are also many advisors on board including Alex Rudloff. There was a lot of talk at first about Ted Murphy’s involvement and whether or not doterati was one of his ploys or a way to take advantage of local tech people. Thus far I haven’t seen that happening.

The doterati focus group last night was great. We had a room packed with people from tech, marketing, and a student from Valencia, providing feedback on proposed plans for the web site, educational activities, and membership structure and benefits.

As with anything local I urge you to get involved. We are in the formative stages and moving ahead at a rapid pace. Here’s some stats to show you how far we are after just six weeks:

• 233 members
• 14 groups with 188 members
• 19 forum threads
• 1400 “unique” visitors
• 45+ events posted
• 175 followers on Twitter

If you aren’t yet a member join today and get involved. At the very least it will be a great way to meet other tech folks here in Central Florida as well as business people. If you have any questions post them here. Otherwise, I’ll see you there.

View my page on doterati