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As the spring flowers hath bloomed and the summer showers doth begin to fall, another season emerges. A season that brings out the best in modernity, celebrates the present, and hoists up the trailblazers in a bold, exciting new field.

(Ok, the jury is still out on how “exciting” and “trailblazing” this field is. But pardon me my Shakespearean hyperbole.)

I don’t know how long it lasts, but for the last two weeks it has been Social Media Networking Season here in Tampa.

First, on Wednesday, June 23, there was the sports blog meet-up hosted by SBNation Tampa at the Tampa Bay Brewing Company in Ybor City.

As I mentioned in the last post, at the SBNation meet-up I finally met some of the Tampa bloggers I have been reading for the last few years, to include the great Clark Brooks of Ridiculously Inconsistent Trickle of Consciousness and Gregg Burrage of Sticks of Fire.

With the complementary swag and free Crown Royal, good times were had by all.

Then, a week later, at the same Bat-place and at the same Bat-time, I attended the Mashable Social Media Day networking event. Here I again had the pleasure of meeting other local bloggers, media creators, designers, marketers, and other assorted web folk. Some of the folks I met included:

• Miss Destructo of Destructo Deviations.com
• Jen of Miss Attitude.us
• Rae Catanese, whose website I worked with prior to the Super Bowl in 2008
• Darrin Guilbeau of Hanger1Media.com
• Loren Omoto and Jennifer Yarter of TBO.com
• Susie Steiner of Fido’s Laundry.com and Geek Is Single.com
• Blaine Rumsey of the aptly named Blaine Rumsey.com
• Kim Randall of the similarly aptly named Kim Randall.me
• Chris Kanclerowicz of blackenedsun.com
• David Rivera of thedrawingroom.us
• Larry Sanek of Castle Dream Real Estate and
• Karla Jackson of the University of South Florida USF Alumni Association

And those are just the people who gave me their business cards. There are a bunch of other folks that I am now following on twitter.

(Interesting side note: of all the business cards I received, not one had a picture of the person on it. I wonder if that’s bad form. I know I have my pic on mine.)

Anyway, it was great meeting all these people. I definitely made a bunch of new friends and increased my chances of being the next great mega-social media hero.

And if you are one of the many people I met in the last few weeks, and this is your first time checking out the site: Welcome. Feel free to take a look around, kick your feet up, and make yourself at home. Tu casa es mi casa. Or something like that.

By the way, bonus points to anyone who knew the “mega-social media hero” title was a tribute to California rock band The Uninvited and their song “Mega-Multi Media Hero“.

(Song starts at the 1:15 mark.)