Come Say L’Haim At The First Green Drinks In The Middle East
Green Drinks, the loosely organized and phenomenally successful international meeting group for green people of all walks of life, is starting up its first chapter in the Middle East today.
That’s right folks: Be a part of history on Monday night (Dec. 15 — tonight) as Green Drinks TLV holds its inaugural event at the Gilda pub on Ahad Ha’am Street, starting at 8PM.
Open to the public, just walk in and ask someone: “Hey, are you green?” (You might want to try it in Hebrew: “Shalom, ata/at yarok/yeroka”), and you may find yourself engaging in a potentially very interesting conversation with all kinds of people who share your passion for the environment –– from the tie-wearing politician or clean tech professional all the way to the professional activists who hang out at Salon Mazal.
Who knows, maybe you’ll strike up a new business deal or find the love of your life at one of the regular meet ups?
Seeing that Israelis are far more susceptible to over-eating than over-drinking (should there be organic hummus?), I (as one of the organizers) am not really worried about scraping someone off the floor. But TLV does know how to party. Thanks to Green Drinks, we’ll have a few more environmental partiers out on a weekday. And maybe we’ll make the world a little better while we’re having fun.
For more information please visit the Green Drinks TLV Facebook group.
Pulver Dating Service
Filed under: Blogging, Business, Pop Culture, Profiles, Technology
If you know about Jeff Pulver then you know he’s a futuristic technology sort of guru guy who predicts where we’re headed and creates the vessel for getting there.
Take VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). That’s Jeff.
He’s the co-founder of Vonage and he pushed FCC legislature a few years ago with “The Pulver Order”.
He’s also the globe-trotting guy behind uber successful “Social Networking Breakfasts”.
Last week he held one such breakfast in Tel Aviv. And we @ Israelity (that would be moi-self) were in attendance.
And in talking to Mr. Pulver, found out. . .
That the impetus behind his social networking breakfasts was Harvey Weinstein. While attending a NYC benefit with the famous mega-producer, Pulver was at a loss for ice-breaking words. When his attempt at striking up a conversation with Weinstein fell flat – “So you like poker?” he posed, referring to Weinstein’s Miramax-backed film Rounders.
Nope came Weinstein’s stilted reply – Pulver pondered: How do business people do this? How do they break the ice with each other on a routine basis?
Thus was born his “tagline” social breakfast networking event concept. You’ll have to read about them to know how it works. But he took a simple idea from the Internet world of taglines and translated it back to face-to-face interaction. And it works. Well.
Next up in Pulver’s idea forum? Dating events following the same theme.
Only problem is how to appropriately “stick” the sticky notes.
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