Of all the many good people doing really interesting and important things in social media, David Almacy stands out from the crowd. David did much of the work that you see if you go to the White House website or have dealings with the digital media components of the White House communications operations. David is now the VP for Digital Strategies for Waggoner Edstrom Worldwide.

If you want to know what’s going on in social and digital media, you should definitely come to our Saturday Happy Hour for discussion and open bar. Yes, you read that right. If you join us this Saturday at Sholtz’s from 3 to 5 pm, you drink for free courtesy of Waggoner Edstrom and the Social Media Club of Austin.

Following are the details. Please let us know if you’ll be there by commenting below, twittering about it, and then by showing up. Please help us spread the word. We want to give David a nice welcome to Austin.

~ Mike

Join David Almacy, VP Digital Strategies for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, and the Social Media Club of Austin for discussion and drinks.

• When: Saturday, July 19 from 2-5 pm
• Where: Scholz Beer Garten
• Why: Dave has over 15 years of experience at the intersection of government, public relations, marketing, politics and digital communications. His background includes stints with the Republican National Committee, Washington Business Journal, C-SPAN, GovTech Solutions, U.S. Department of Education and most recently, the White House as the Internet and E-Communciations director. Plus, WE is picking up the tab!