The Third Annual Scorpion Bowl Networking Bash

posted Sunday, 9 November 2008

Last night we attended one of my favorite parties of the year - The Scorpion Bowl, a bash sponsored by Positronic Design that is one part house party, one part birthday party, and one part networking event, rolled into one night and festooned with yards of Christmas lights.

My friend Dave, Positronic's owner, throws this party every year on or around his birthday, which coincides with mine and that of a lot of other Creatives in the area. Celebrating 'all things Scorpio,' Dave has kegs of Paper City brew wheeled in, catered food from a famous Polish deli - Gramps - delivered, and musicians hired to play throughout the night in various parts of Positronic headquarters. The business is actually an old Victorian house recognizeable from the street by its large veggie garden and year-round party lights, draped on the porch, in the windows, on the piano, around the grill, and anywhere else there's an outlet.

The usual familiar faces were there, drinking beer from pre-printed Scorpion Bowl party cups and hanging by the doorway of the root cellar to hear the band. A few friends and colleagues who had yet to come to the party before showed their faces, too, including Max and Paul, and I met some new, interesting people like Jenny, a Francis Perkins student at Mount Holyoke College who is studying the Art Nouveau movement.

It's the unexpected wunderkinds you meet that make the Scorpion Bowl a great time, as well as an effective networking vehicle. So many people think there's this complicated science to networking ... not so much. A party house filled with open minds is all it takes.

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