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Tech Options for Mobile Business:
iPads, Smartphones, Netbooks, Accessories, Plans, Software, Services, and More
Speaker: Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post

What's worse than forgetting your laptop's power adapter before embarking on a 5-day business trip? And, choosing not to pack your phone's power adapter—because you can just recharge it off the laptop's USB port. This month's speaker, Washington Post technology columnist Rob Pegoraro, managed to pull off this two-fer of blunders 3 years ago on his way to the Consumer Electronics Show, but then managed to put in a solid week of reporting.

Pegoraro—who, despite his youthful appearance in some out-of-date photos, has been doing this long enough to remember when "filing copy" meant dialing up to a Post-run BBS and pasting text into a terminal window—will talk about what to do in that situation. He'll also share other tips about gadgets, software, and services he's used and appreciated when traveling for the Post and on his own dime.

Speaker: Rob Pegoraro writes the "Fast Forward" column, a weekly look at computers, the Internet, and consumer electronics, and the "Help File Q&A" feature. Online, he writes the "Faster Forward" blog, hosts Web chats, and holds forth on Twitter.

Pegoraro has been with the Post since 1993, during which time he has sorted mail and answered phones, written for many other sections (so far, his byline has appeared in National, Metro, Style, Sports, Health, Food, Home, Weekend, Real Estate, Outlook, Sunday Arts, Sunday Source, Travel, Book World, and the Magazine), and made it onto the front page twice.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. (There are many restaurants suitable for pre- or post-meeting gathering/networking/refreshment in the block north of the library.) 

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open noon Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

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Date: May 15, 2010
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Joy Butler, Attorney, Author, and Principal, Sashay Communications 

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