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MAY 12, 2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 -- DOES SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING WORK? Tired of hearing you have to use Social Media? Join TechBiz Connection to hear real life people, who use social media to grow their brand awareness and in their businesses. Techbizconnection. See [link] (more)

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -- SEO in Social Media (Panel). Come to the SEO in Social Media panel moderated by a former MySpace VP and founder of Lalawag.com, Sean Percival, on Tue, Sept 20, 2011 at BLANKSPACES in Santa Monica. Or learn how to increase traffic via organic listings and avoid "spam" penalties.

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MAY 16, 2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 -- Social Media Breakfast. Network and mingle with marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, future SMBLA speakers and more. See [link] (more)

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 -- Social Media and Gaming. Get your tix now to the Social Media Breakfast Los Angeles August event! Here are just a few exciting things to expect: Topic: Social Media and Gaming Speaker: Pauline Malcolm-John, Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for WeeWorld.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 -- Social Media, Social Art and TheBlu. Wemo Media and ACM SIGGRAPH invite you to a special behind the scenes look at The Blu, a new on-line social media experience in collaboration with Hollywood and Academia.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 -- Social Media Breakfast Los Angeles. Peg Samuel is the Social Diva and the queen of networking. The Topic: Public or Private? We've all had this dilemma when deciding whether or not our business contacts should see all of the photos from our extravagant night out in Hollywood.

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JUNE 14, 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 -- Social Media Breakfast LA. Jason Pollock (founder of Boom Content), will discuss how social media is changing the landscape of the entertainment industry.

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JULY 9, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2011 -- The Lazy Mans Way to Social Media. How often do you feel overwhelmed by the thought of Managing your social media on a daily basis?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 -- ExecTec - Great Social Media Stories. See [link] (more)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- Social Media for Social Good. We're teaming up with Non Profit Effect for our panel on how social good companies including TOMS, Movember, Drop in the Bucket, and City Year work with their strategic partners to leverage digital marketing and social media for social good.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -- Automotive Brands and Social Media. Advertising Hub panel produced by Ogilvy and Mather. See [link] (more)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Master Social Media with Jason Calacanis. In this class Jason Calacanis will teach you how to leverage social media to build awareness for your product, company, causes and--most importantly--yourself. See [link] (more)

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011 -- Celebrities in Social Media.

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MAY 2, 2011

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 -- One Million Fans and Followers: The Social Media Ecosystem and You. LA Master Event.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Free Movie Screening of Participant Media's Circumstance presented by Take Part and SMW LA. Attend a Movies and Social Media event hosted by the industry leader in social action campaigns, Participant Media which has the current top two box office leading films in distribution (Contagion and The Help).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Moving from Social Media to Social Action. Well discuss how the media landscape is changing the conversation, but what does it really take to translate that to meaningful action? Well explore campaigns that crossed the boundary from social media to taking action.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Digital LA - Social Media for Social Good panel. Join us for our panel on how charities and other organizations use social media and entertainment / celebrity for social good. See [link] (more)

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MAY 20, 2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- Social Media - Is There Still a Play? Theres been a great deal of talk and hope about the future of social media, and for good reason. Its gotten to the point that venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins have launched an investment fund just for social media start ups.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 -- Social Media: Hype or Holy Grail for Business? Its been a year since our panelists discussed best practices for growing business using social media. AWT Quarterly Technology Forum. Join us for a lively discussion! See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 -- Social Media: Hype or Holy Grail for Busines? Join us for the AWT Quarterly Interactive Technology Forum Its been a year since our panelists discussed best practices for growing business using social media. Join us for a lively discussion!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- Healthcare: Social Media and Digital Marketing to Improve Engagement. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 -- CommNexus Presents:Managing a Crisis in the Age of Social Media. From real time Twitter updates, to eyewitness news to iReports, how media outlets source and broadcast stories has changed as well. In the era of social media, a crisis can start anywhere and can quickly spread everywhere.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -- Deeper Social Media: Social Art/Entertainment vs Social Games. Virtual Goods, free to play games, social media, globally sourced content creation, social art and entertainment; the mix is growing wildly. Twitter and Facebook have taken us massively social.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 -- Managing A Crisis In the Age of Social Media. From real time Twitter updates, to eyewitness news to iReports, how media outlets source and broadcast stories has changed as well. The way people find out about breaking news has changed significantly in the past several years.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011 -- Using Social Media to Rediscover and Reinvent your Brand. This roundtable discussion will offer insights on how and why marketers decide to pursue bolder social media strategies to gain unique positioning and connect with online consumers. What are the risks? What are the rewards?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Don’t Buy It ,” which asserts that “earned” social engagement drives far better business results than paid social exposure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that I often see, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game. You need to work through a team of underwriters, who administer the public issuance and distribution of securities from a corporation.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2013

2011 was the year of the video interview, in which I spoke with the likes of Guy Kawasaki, Len Short, Brad Feld, Naval Ravikant and Steve Blank. Exposure on these sites more than doubled my readership from 2011. > 780 social media shares - front page of TechCrunch last weekend of Olympics. Greetings loyal readers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Resumator develops social media recruiting tools, which helps startups find and recruit employees. Rincon led a $700,000 Series A round in 2011 in The Resumator. Resumator is unusual in that it is located in Pittsburgh, PA--Rincon tends to make mostly Southern California investments. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2013

MarketShare develops technology used to help with understanding the payoff of investments across a company''s marketing and sales effort, including TV, print, display, search, video, social media, website, PR, and other efforts. Elevation Partners invested in MarketShare in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. What is massively different from now and when I wrote the book is that social media didn’t exist back then. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. I am just willing to grind it out.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 -- Games Get Social and Digital Distribution. Join us for our discussion on how social media and digital distribution is affecting the creation of video game content. Digital LA.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The group--which is run out of Los Angeles, and is made up of the former team of Panache--said it has added a new Social Slide Bar, Action Button, and Click-to-Long Play formats, all designed to help advertisers engage viewers with video advertising. 24/7 Media acquired Los Angeles-based Panache in December of 2011.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

I started announcing my Twitter thesis back in 2011 (still serves as a useful read today). Social Media Tech Market Analysis' As this astute journalist pointed out, DataSift “ likely would have cost a lot more to acquire.” ” What gives? Why all the fuss about the Twitter firehose? Predictive Data.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

Saturday, January 22, 2011 -- Real Answers for Tough Times. Start 2011 Off Right! Break Out Sessions Include: Learn how to use Social Media for Branding and Networking; Stay on top of the ever changing Tax Regulations; Build your Business with the 6 trillion in Government Purchases! CTC First Annual Achievement Summit.

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