Upcoming: Web2.0 Events

Jan 6, 2010: CHIFOO Meeting: Confessions of a Public Speaker with Scott Berkun at White Stag Building

fellene — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:18:41 -0700

Presented by Scott Berkun,
author of "Confessions of a Public Speaker" and other books
http://www.scottberkun.com

If you wonder why your wonderful ideas rarely get accepted, or are compromised beyond recognition in meeting after meeting, it might not be your creative design talents that are the problem. It’s your ability to frame, shape and pitch your ideas effectively to others.
This fun, brutally honest, interactive talk, loosely based on the O’Reilly book ‘Confessions of a Public Speaker’, will give you everything you need to know to present, pitch, convince and sell your ideas so your world domination plans can begin.

Dec 9, 2009: Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009 at The Skills Matter eXChange

SkillsMatter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:04:12 -0700

GROOVY & GRAILS EXCHANGE 2009
Following on from the success in previous years, Skills Matter is pleased to organise another Groovy & Grails eXchange. We hope to bring together the leading innovators in the Groovy & Grails community, with London's Groovy, Grails and Java web development community, for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.

http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/groovy-grails-exchange-2009/wd-434

With Guillaume LaForge and Graeme Rocher providing the conference keynotes, 10 expert talks and four Parkbench sessions, these exciting two days are structured to encourage discussion and interaction. With a maximum number of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate environment where you can share experience, demonstrate new ideas and techniques, talk to the experts and generally have lots of fun.

REGISTER TODAY
We have limited the number of delegates to 125 only - and there are only very few tickets left, so if you would like to join us, get your skates on and register today! http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/groovy-grails-exchange-2009/wd-434

G&G EXCHANGE TUTORIAL
You can register for the following G&G eXchange Tutorials. All tutorials come with a free G&G eXchange conference ticket!

* Dec 7-11, Groovy Metaprogramming (3 days) with Venkat Subramaniam, schedule by November 20th and pay just £750!
http://skillsmatter.com/course/java-jee/gg-university-groovy-metaprogramming/wd-434

Nov 14, 2009: Entrepreneur Business Luncheon at Perkins Restaurant

prepaidshade — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:11:30 -0700

ARE YOU OPEN TO AN OPPORTUNITY? Can you show others how to do something you've already done? Looking for that one thing to take your income to the next level? Look no further! Join us for lunch and to get introduced to an awesome opportunity.

RSVP Christopher Shade 901-828-8093

Nov 24, 2009: TweetsGiving San Francisco at The Cellar

rajivdoshi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:38:28 -0700

Join us for a Gratitude Happy Hour in San Francisco on Tuesday, November 24th from 6 to 9PM at The Cellar (685 Sutter Street) to help raise money for Epic Change.

Dec 2, 2009: PRSA Silicon Valley Presents: Media Predicts 2010 at Computer History Museum

FullCalendar — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:22 -0700

Making the List: What's Hot and What's Not in 2010

Join us December 2 when PRSA Silicon Valley presents the must-attend visionary event of the year at the Computer History Museum. How will the technology landscape be different a year from now? What company is poised to become the next FaceBook?

Media Predicts 2010 (Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009) promises to be the ultimate event of the year, once again. Attendees will be able to network with many of the Silicon Valley's Who's Who, discussing - over cocktails in advance of the main event - what they think will be big in the coming year. You won't want to miss out on what promises to be a memorable evening, and you'll be first to hear from the top journalists and bloggers what the biggest technologies, companies, issues and trends will be in the year ahead.

Bring your customers, partners and colleagues along to celebrate the year and set the stage for a remarkable one ahead. Seats are limited and this event sells out annually weeks or months in advance, so we recommend you REGISTER NOW to assure your seat or table. Note that PRSA Silicon Valley will keep attendance fees at the same reasonable level to ensure attendance is not a barrier to anyone wishing to attend in a continuing tough economy. Thank you to our sponsors for making this possible!

Media Predicts 2010 Honorees:

New York Times & Bits Blog - Brad Stone
Wall Street Journal & Digits Blog - Ben Worthen
USA Today & LastWatchDog Blog - Byron Acohido
Bloomberg News - Connie Guglielmo
VentureBeat & DEMO - Matt Marshall
GigaOM - Om Malik
WIRED - Steven Levy
CNBC - Jim Goldman (Moderator)
SFGate - Duffy Jennings (Master of Ceremonies)

Comedian WILL DURST will open this year's event!

And, this year's musical entertainment includes:
Dawn Walker, Principal Flutist, Monterey Symphony, and Dan Levitan, Principal Harpist, Symphony Silicon Valley

For more details visit: http://www.prsasiliconvalley.com/Media-Predicts

Nov 18, 2009: San Francisco Bay Area Web Analytic Wednesday at Harlot

Michael D. Healy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:19:45 -0700

Mark your calendar now for the next WAW event in San Francisco:

Date: Wed Nov 18, 2009, 6:00-8:00pm
Venue: Harlot SF
Address: 47 Minna St., San Francisco CA
Sponsor: Amadesa
RSVP: http://bit.ly/2tVHAS

Join us for a Web Analytics Wednesdays networking event at Harlot SF in downtown San Francisco. This is a great chance to meet and talk with other web/online analytics professionals in a fun and informal setting. The first round of drinks, some light appetizers, and a great giveaway prize (bring your biz card) are courtesy of Amadesa, this month’s sponsor.

For the uninitiated: Web Analytics Wednesday is the free monthly networking event for all members of the web analytics community: practitioners, consultants, vendors, upstarts and curious onlookers. And you're invited.

Nov 20, 2009: TEDx Amsterdam at Royal Tropical Institute Conference Centre

nynke — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:52:51 -0700

The day-long event will bring together 450 opinion and business leaders from all walks of life to listen to top speakers with an ‘idea worth spreading’, watch amazing tech demo’s, get inspired by local talent, and enjoy superb art and entertainment. By invitation only.

Apr 11, 2010: 2nd Annual Streamy Awards at TBD

Streamy Awards — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:04:13 -0700

The Streamys were created to recognize and honor outstanding achievement for shows produced originally for broadband distribution, and recognizes both the shows themselves and the people who make them possible, through awards in 24 categories covering the arts and sciences of making web television. The winners of the Streamy Awards will be celebrated at a live ceremony, in Los Angeles, on April 11, 2010.

Information on ticketing will be available soon.

Nov 24, 2009: Web2NewYork November at Gallery Bar

Web2NewYork — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:30:23 -0700

Networking party for post-internet media, advertising and business.

Confirmed to present:

Khanh Pham + Shu Kim, Shustir
Adam Black, KeyWifi256

Jan 8, 2010: WordCamp Atlanta at Georgia Tech ATDC

tessahorehled — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:46:46 -0700

Nov 23, 2009: Science Museum Centenary Lectures: Living in a Digital World at Science Museum

Peer Lawther — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:24:19 -0700

In a world increasingly dominated by the internet, what does the future hold for us all? Will the way we all engage with our computers, our data and even our friends be changed for ever? Join Dame Wendy Hall to find out what it will mean to be a digital citizen in the future.

Speaker:

Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton

Nov 26, 2009: Open Source Show and Tell at The Team

Phillie Casablanca — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:22:26 -0700

Once again, The Team (Design Agency) and Osmosoft (Open Source Innovation arm of BT) have asked some of London's open source peeps to come and show what they're up to. Entry is free, each slot is about 10-15 minutes, and afterwards we go for beers at a pub near Borough Market.

Here's the tentative line-up (subject to change):

(Speaker TBC), Canonical - Ubuntu Update
Julien Fourgeaud, Symbian - Managing the Symbian community
Jeremy Ruston, Osmosoft - HTML5 and the slow death of Flash
Leisa Reichelt, Disambiguity.com - Drupal 7 Update
Phil Hawksworth, The Team - Playing with each others toys: Developing with open technologies
Rain Ashford, BBC - Open Source Gaming for Handhelds
Robbie Clutton, BT - iPhone development using web technologies

Keep an eye on The Team's Twitter stream for updates.

Also, Andrew Back is bring along his art exhibition "No Numbers", fresh from an outing at the Horse Hospital:

"No Numbers" is a playful response to Foxx's seminal 1980 electronic music work, Mr No. The music is transformed into a sequence of numbers -- digital samples -- which the viewer is encouraged to copy down using the paper and pencils provided.

At a rate of one number per second it would take 4 weeks to transcribe the original 3'18" work in CD quality. The futility of this task reflects the artist's interest in what we may be compelled to do but that which is ultimately, humanly, impossible.

The reduction to a slow, seemingly random series of numbers highlights the essentially approximate nature of digital sampling. This links to the artist's interest in exploring the aesthetic and cultural questions suggested by the analogue-digital distinction.

The title of the piece suggests remix and reappropriation, but also codes for a putative request from the copyright holder of the original work. Downloading music, we're told, is theft. Four weeks of laborious, transcription seems more like pilgrimage."

Nov 12, 2009: The Internet as Playground and Factory at The New School, Eugene Lang College

dekmosphere — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:29:26 -0700

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

Jan 26, 2010: Social Politics Forum at Lewis Media Centre at Millbank Tower

SNWorldForum — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:50:41 -0700

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

Mar 15, 2010: Social Networking World Forum London at Olympia Conference Centre

SNWorldForum — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:15:10 -0700

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

Dec 4, 2009: Social PR Forum at RIBA

SNWorldForum — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:08:14 -0700

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

Nov 23, 2009: Dan Cederholm Workshop at RIBA

Carsonified Events — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:00:18 -0700

Handcrafted Bulletproof CSS
with Dan Cederholm of "Simplebits"

Learn how craftsmanship can apply to the intangibility of web design. Dan Cederholm will guide you though a case study, pointing out the details that matter most when designing flexible, bulletproof designs.

As the browser landscape changes, so too does our approach to building sites with web standards. Become a web craftsperson armed with the techniques and best practices that make all the difference.