Politico’s Story on Washington “Socialites”
06. Jan, 2010 
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Kate Michael, Pamela Sorensen and Andrea Rodgers (Photo Credit: Zaid Hamid)
Most of my readers live outside of Washington, DC, so I would like to share a story that Politico’s Kiki Ryan and Patrick Gavin did on Washington Socialites. Politico highlighted ten of us in the article.
The majority of those highlighted are or have been bloggers, including Katherine Kennedy, Pamela Sorensen, Kate Michael, Angie Goff, Courtney Caldwell, and Kelly Ann Collins, who created Washington’s very first blog covering the District’s social life – WashingtonSocialites.com, which she shut down in 2005. This was the website where I first started posting anonymously as “Miss A”. Later, of course, I began using that moniker on LateNightShots.com and eventually it was revealed that I was behind the moniker.
Some may question whether “blogger” and “socialite” should be used in the same sentence, but with more and more celebrities Tweeting, Facebooking and Blogging, I think it’s only natural. Socialites are social, and social media is where society is now being social. My own business consulting practice is named “Socialite Marketing” — a reference to the fact that social media that plays a big role in what I do for my clients. With a huge tech industry in the greater Washington area, a majority of Washingtonians connected to their Blackberry or iPhone at all times for work, and journalists being some of DC’s most notable celebrities, it’s no wonder that DC is leading the country with The Socialite 2.0.
- Miss A
Ahh, Washington Socialites! The good old days!
For a little while, they were calling blog socialites Blogebrities. 
Great post! Definitely true about the social scene overlapping with the blogging/social media scene in Washington. @ Kelly Ann — bahaha I want to be a blogebrite!!
Good job. Reliving a previous life through this venue.