BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Upcoming: Social Media Conferences Events PRODID:-//Upcoming.org/Upcoming ICS//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091111T080000 DTEND:20091111T150000 GEO:-77.5895;43.1574 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Social Media Today CONFERENCE #SM2day DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4519521/ ] Social Media Today (sm2day) will help business executives learn from the best players in the field. Millions are now using social media tools to lift up their voices in electronic communities. How involved are you? Is your business there yet? How can you get started? Can your business really benefit from Social Media? Come to sm2day and get the answers you need from an objective group of speakers who work\, develop and brief social media for business. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Chris Brogan KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jeffrey Hayzlett Speakers: see website for full agenda! http://www.sm2day.com/ Sponsor: Mashable\, Social Media Club - Rochester\, NY Weather you like it or not\, weather you are in or out\, there is a conversation going on. Social Media Today (sm2day) will help business executives learn from the best players in the field. Millions are now using social media tools to raise their voices and have them heard via electronic communities. How involved are you? Is your business part of “the discussion” as social media is often termed? How can you get started? Can your business really benefit from Social Media? At sm2day we provide answers communicators and business people need to make use of these valuable tools. We reveal this much needed advice and information through an objective group of speakers and experts who work\, develop and brief social media innovation for businesses around the world. This blog is not intended to market any one event\, we would have created a static website for that. It is intended to be the start of a social media conversation. Tell us what’s missing on the agenda\, what else you would like to see\, give us your questions in advance so the speakers can prepare a great presentation. One which will enhance the conversation\, provide invaluable advice and strategy for those who need it most\, the people who want to engage the digital world. We will also use the blog to give you updates and to post great links related to social media and business. At the same time\, we’ll offer you some tools that will help you prepare for the events that shape the ways in which we should and will communicate in the future. Let the this conversation officially begin….. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4519521/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4519521/ DTSTAMP:20090923T121646 LAST-MODIFIED:20090923T121646 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=susanbeebe:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/222289/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/6452/":Memorial Art Gallery @ 500 University Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, New York 14607 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091115 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:The Internet as Playground and Factory DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4412226/ ] Today we are arguably in the midst of massive transformations in economy\, labor\, and life related to digital media. The purpose of this conference is to interrogate these dramatic shifts restructuring leisure\, consumption\, and production since the mid-century. In the 1950s television began to establish commonalities between suburbanites across the United States. Currently\, communities that were previously sustained through national newspapers now started to bond over sitcoms. Increasingly people are leaving behind televisions sets in favor of communing with -- and through-- their computers. They blog\, comment\, procrastinate\, refer\, network\, tease\, tag\, detag\, remix\, and upload and from all of this attention and all of their labor\, corporations expropriate value. Guests in the virtual world Second Life even co-create the products and experiences\, which they then consume. What is the nature of this interactive ‘labor’ and the new forms of digital sociality that it brings into being? What are we doing to ourselves? Only a small fraction of the more than one billion Internet users create and add videos\, photos\, and mini-blog posts. The rest pay attention. They leave behind innumerable traces that speak to their interests\, affiliations\, likes and dislikes\, and desires. Large corporations then profit from this interaction by collecting and selling this data. Social participation is the oil of the digital economy. Today\, communication is a mode of social production facilitated by new capitalist imperatives and it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between play\, consumption and production\, life and work\, labor and non-labor. The revenues of today's social aggregators are promising but their speculative value exceeds billions of dollars. Capital manages to expropriate value from the commons\; labor goes beyond the factory\, all of society is put to work. Every aspect of life drives the digital economy: sexual desire\, boredom\, friendship — and all becomes fodder for speculative profit. We are living in a total labor society and the way in which we are commoditized\, racialized\, and engendered is profoundly and disturbingly normalized. The complex and troubling set of circumstances we now confront includes the collapse of the conventional opposition between waged and unwaged labor\, and is characterized by multiple “tradeoffs” and “social costs”—such as government and corporate surveillance. While individual instances are certainly exploitative in the most overt sense\, the shift in the overall paradigm moves us beyond the explanatory power of the Marxian interpretation of exploitation (which is of limited use here). Free Software and similar practices have provided important alternatives to and critiques of traditional modes of intellectual property to date but user agency is not just a question of content ownership. Users should demand data portability\, the right to pack up and leave the walled gardens of institutionalized labor à la Facebook or StudiVZ. We should ask which rights users have beyond their roles as consumers and citizens. Activists in Egypt have poached Facebook's platform to get their political message out and to organize protests. Google's Image Labeler transforms people’s endless desire for entertainment into work for the company. How much should Google pay them to tag an image? Such payment could easily become more of an insult than a remuneration. Currently\, there are few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex\, hybrid realities of the digital economy. This conference confronts the urgent need to interrogate what constitutes labor and value in the digital economy and it seeks to inspire proposals for action. Currently\, there are few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex\, hybrid realities of the digital economy. The Internet as Playground and Factory poses a series of questions about the conundrums surrounding labor (and often the labor of love) in relation to our digital present: Is it possible to acknowledge the moments of ruthless exploitation while not eradicating optimism\, inspiration\, and the many instances of individual financial and political empowerment? What is labor and where is value produced? Are strategies of refusal an effective response to the expropriation of value from interacting users? How is the global crisis of capitalism linked to the speculative performances of the digital economy? What can we learn from the “cyber sweatshops” class-action lawsuit against AOL under the Fair Labor Standards Act in the early 1990s? How does this invisible interaction labor affect our bodies? What were key steps in the history of interaction design that managed to mobilize and structure the social participation of bodies and psyches in order to capture value? Most interaction labor\, regardless whether it is driven by monetary motivations or not\, is taking place on corporate platforms. Where does that leave hopeful projections of a future of non-market peer production? - Trebor Scholz URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4412226/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4412226/ DTSTAMP:20090906T162926 LAST-MODIFIED:20090906T162926 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=dekmosphere:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/28444/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/634253/":The New School\, Eugene Lang College @ 65 West 11th St\, New York\, New York 10011 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091118T190000 DTEND:20091118T210000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:e-xtrategy incontra xpug marche DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4842799/ ] e-xers & xpuggers: agile ( evento su invito\, causa disponibilità limitata di posti :-) ) URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4842799/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4842799/ DTSTAMP:20091104T134631 LAST-MODIFIED:20091104T134631 CATEGORIES:Social ORGANIZER;CN=e-xtrategy:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/240636/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/164023/":e-xtrategy cove @ Via Marche\, 34\, Monsano\, Marche 60003 IT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091124T180000 DURATION:PT0S TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Web2NewYork November DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4563634/ ] Networking party for post-internet media\, advertising and business. Confirmed to present: Khanh Pham + Shu Kim\, Shustir Adam Black\, KeyWifi256 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4563634/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4563634/ DTSTAMP:20091008T123023 LAST-MODIFIED:20091008T123023 CATEGORIES:Other ORGANIZER;CN=Web2NewYork:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/131488/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/63079/":Gallery Bar @ 120 Orchard Street between Delancey & Rivington\, New York\, New York 10002 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091205 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Social PR Forum DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4164819/ ] Social PR is a one day conference designed to address the issues surrounding PR and the social media space. The conference will look into how these topics are impacting on each other and how PR professionals can relate and work effectively within the new challenges web 2.0 communication channels bring. Show highlights include: • Learn from global PR companies who have successfully embraced social media • Understand what products and services you should be using\, and how to use them well • Listen to top commentators and experts on their take on why social media can be effective in PR and why not to fear it • Learn how to seamlessly introduce social media into your way of thinking and into your employees • Listen to how award winning campaigns utilised the social space successfully • Understand how offical bodies view PR in the social media space • Network immediately with our first-class pre-show online meeting planner • View the full list of speakers Download the conference brochure. www.social-pr.net URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4164819/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4164819/ DTSTAMP:20090729T090814 LAST-MODIFIED:20090729T090814 CATEGORIES:Commercial ORGANIZER;CN=SNWorldForum:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/319326/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/131307/":RIBA @ 66 Portland Place\, London\, England W1B 1AD GB END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091216T073000 DTEND:20091216T170000 GEO:-87.6222;41.8905 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Word of Mouth Supergenius DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4794464/ ] Word of Mouth Supergenius is where you'll learn to be a fantastic word of mouth marketer with 12 how-to classes\, 12 real-world case studies\, and 6 brilliant authors. You'll learn practical\, hands-on techniques to get started\, grow your program\, and earn amazing word of mouth. Taught by masters of word of mouth from Starbucks\, Maker’s Mark\, Domino’s\, LEGO\, Coca-Cola\, and many more\, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills you need to get people talking about your brand. Word of mouth hall-of-famers like Jason Falls\, Mitch Joel\, John Jantsch\, Saul Colt\, Spike Jones\, John Moore\, Rod Brooks\, and our own Andy Sernovitz (to name a few) will take you through a day jam packed with innovation and intellect. You'll ask questions\, discover new ideas\, and get answers from people who have been there\, done that -- and learn it all in just one day. Supergenius is presented by GasPedal\, December 16\, Chicago URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4794464/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4794464/ DTSTAMP:20091027T144654 LAST-MODIFIED:20091027T144654 CATEGORIES:Other ORGANIZER;CN=GasPedal1:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/1042957/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11824/":Gleacher Center @ 450 N Cityfront Plaza Drive\, Chicago\, Illinois 60611 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100127 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Social Politics Forum DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4165868/ ] Social Politics is a one day conference designed to address the issues surrounding Politics and the social media space\, how they are impacting on each other and how Politicians can relate and work effectively within the new challenges web 2.0 communication channels bring. Show highlights include: • Learn from experts about how social media is changing the political space • Hear from those who have successfully included social media in political campaigns • Listen to top commentators and experts on their take on why social media can be effective in politics and why not to fear it • Learn about which politicians are using social media\, case studies on Obama and Number 10 • Find new insights about which levels are embracing social media\, both local and national • Understand what the future holds\, and will a traditional area be able to embrace new media • Network immediately with our first-class pre-show online meeting planner URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4165868/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4165868/ DTSTAMP:20090730T055041 LAST-MODIFIED:20090730T055041 CATEGORIES:Commercial ORGANIZER;CN=SNWorldForum:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/319326/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/52166/":Lewis Media Centre at Millbank Tower @ Ground Floor\, Millbank Tower\, Millbank\, London\, England SW1P 4RS UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100305 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Emerging Communications (eComm) America 2010 DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2408013/ ] Why eCommThe Emerging Communications Conference & Awards: * Attracts executives and top influencer's from across the telecom\, mobile and Internet space * Launches real-world startups * Explores business models and new partnership structures * Gives stage time to cutting-edge academic projects * Presents views from the incumbent telecom players * Stirs required policy debates * Promotes garage based hacks * Brings out visionaries * Provides a venue to meet and do business\, as well as be inspired * Showcases bleeding-edge technologies * Provides a critical forum for all players across the full spectrum Why Attend Fall 2009? The mammoth sized telecom industry - including cellular - is in the process of being re-written. You either stand on the side to be written into the past or instead join with the growing community to write the future. Opportunities to profit from the radical restructuring and in accelerating the development of how humanity connects\, communicates and collaborates have never been so great. Opportunity Doesn't Always Knock. Sometimes It Calls. The Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference & Awards was created to promote and accelerate communications innovation. Telecom\, mobile and to a lesser extent\, Internet based communications\, had been innovation stagnant for far too long. Yet the opportunities for innovation had never been greater. Those opportunities are only going to grow as drastic changes further impact the multi-trillion dollar a year telecom industry. Changes include: * Telecom is becoming software * Today's model of the telephony and SMS cash-cows will significantly dry up long-term * "Phones" are becoming general purpose always-on computers * A march is underway to change how spectrum is allocated and utilised * Applications innovation is being democratised * The media industry is converging with personal communications * Internet-style ecosystems are starting to pressurise the traditional value chain * Search engines and computer manufactures are encroaching into the space * App downloads\; media content and even communication streams are increasingly routing-around operator's billing systems * The telecom kingdom is fragmenting daily. There is not a migratory way from where we are to the future\; this means unprecedented opportunity for those ahead-of-the-curve. The debut San Francisco Spring 2008 conference broke a lot of new ground and created a forum attracting 300 top influencer's and 80 speakers from 15 countries. San Francisco Spring 2009 built upon that foundation with world-class speakers and a 25% increase in attendees. Amsterdam Fall 2009 is the debut European event and promises to further cement the community. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2408013/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2408013/ DTSTAMP:20090410T025813 LAST-MODIFIED:20090410T025813 CATEGORIES:Commercial ORGANIZER;CN=eComm:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/207141/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/367107/":San Francisco Airport Marriott @ 1800 Old Bayshore Hwy\, Burlingame\, California 94010 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100317 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Social Networking World Forum London DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4165815/ ] Show highlights include: * Two day event featuring four dedicated conference streams * Conference streams include: Social Networking World Forum\, Corporate Social Networking\, Social TV \, Mobile Social Networking Forum. * Featuring key speakers from global brands\, organisations\, social networking publishers and developers\, pioneering social media leaders\, top agencies\, content producers plus many more. * Joint exhibition & Evening Networking Reception * Full workshop programme within exhibition area * Take advantage of our pre-show online meeting planner for all delegates * Free to attend exhibition only pass available 2009 Speakers: # Shaun Gregory\, Managing Director\, O2 Media Business # Jemima Kiss \,Digital Media Reporter\, Guardian # Rudy Thurston\, Chief Executive Officer\, Omnifuse inc. # Nick Reid\, UK Head of Sales\, MySpace/ Fox Interactive Media # Dirk Singer\, co-founder\, Cow # Alex Miller\, Head of Jam\, i-levels Social Media Unit # Sanjay Dholakia\, Chief Marketing Officer\, Lithium Technologies # Jonny Freeman\, Digital Marketing Manager\, Honda # Andrew Weinreich\, CEO\, Meetmoi # Will McInnes\, Managing Director\, NixonMcInnes # Andrew Seel\, Managing Director\, Qube # Ivan Croxford\, General Manager\, BT Tradespace # Robert Proctor\, Director EMEA\, Reality Digital # Neil Kleiner\, Social Media Strategist\, greenroom@momentum # Nenad Marovac\, Board Member\, Sonico/ Shazam Entertainment # Julie Meyer\, Founder and Chief Executive Officer\, Ariadne Capital # Alex Halliday\, Director\, SocialGo Ltd # Joel Davis\, Chief Executive\, agency:2 # Freddie Laker\, Director of Digital Strategy\, Sapient # Penny Power\, Author\, International Speaker\, Entrepreneur and founder of Ecademy # Dave Wiseman\, Enterprise Sales Executive – Europe\, iovation Inc # Matthew Fraser\, Senior Research Fellow\, INSEAD # Neville Wheeler Director\, Cisco Media Solutions Group\, Europe # Alison Fennah\, Executive Director\, European Interactive Advertising Association # Ryo Murai\, CEO\, Beat Communication # Davide Villa\, Senior Vice President B2B\, XING AG # Thomas Power\, Chairman\, Ecademy # Dan Whiley\, VP Commercial\, International Digital Media\, MTV # Maz Nadjm\, Portal Services Manager\, Community BSkyB # Shivanandan Pare\, Chief Operating Officer\, BigAdda # Tony Douglas\, Marketing Innovations\, BMW # Dan Cryan\, Senior Analyst\, Broadband Media # David Jones\, Vice President of Global Marketing\, Friendster # Lulu Phongmony\, Business Development & Marketing Manager\, iVillage # Peter Cowley\, Managing Director of Digital Media\, Endemol UK # Jon Radoff\, Chief Executive Officer – gamerDNA # Mike Dowuona\,Digital Media Manager\,EMI # Andy Baker\, MD\, Friends Reunited # Anthony Lukom Managing Director\, MySpace UK # Natalie Johnson\, Manager Social Media Communications\, General Motors # Anthony Lukom Managing Director\, MySpace UK # Asha Oberoi\, Content Director\, ITN # Eric Maillard Managing Director Ogilvy PR Paris # Chris Davies\, Digital Marketing Manager\, British Airways # Kate Burns\, Managing Director & Vice President\, Europe for Bebo & People Networks # Peter Ward\, Co-Founder & Co-CEO\, www.WAYN.com # Ben Rotheray\, UK Digital Marketing Manager\, Land Rover # Henrik Hoglund\, SVP - Advertising Sales Europe\, Stardoll # Sampo Karjalainen - Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sulake/ Habbo Hotel # Gareth Jones\, Editor\, Revolution Magazine # Michael Donnelly\, Director\, Worldwide Interactive Marketing\, The Coca-Cola Company # Henry Clifford-Jones\, Director of Media Sales Europe\, Linkedin # Emma Jenkins\, Head of Interactive Marketing\, Procter & Gamble UK # Frances Dovey\, Interactive & Emerging Media Manager\, Cadburys # Lorenz Bogaert\, CEO\, Netlog # Simon Podd\, Head of UK Sales\, Bebo # Nicholas Bry\, Senior VP\, Orange Vallee URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4165815/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4165815/ DTSTAMP:20090730T021510 LAST-MODIFIED:20090730T021510 CATEGORIES:Commercial ORGANIZER;CN=SNWorldForum:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/319326/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/756/":Olympia Conference Centre @ Kensington\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR