
If you are anything like me, you long for an interactive social media networking “master calendar.” I’d like one that listed all events, big and small, national, international and local, and that included a way for people to add their event as well, whether they are hosting a small Tweetup or a large convention.
Sure, there are Upcoming, MeetUp, EventBrite and other tools, but we don’t all use the same ones. What I want is one tool that creates a master calendar and also links back to those. While I’m daydreaming I’ll go out on a limb and ask Santa for a tool that creates a centralized list as a “go-to” destination for seeing all of your possibilities for networking at once and then also places your event onto the event sign up tool of your choice, like Upcoming or EventBrite.
Since I have yet to find that useful application in social networking land, I decided to take a stab at creating a resource post instead. After combing the Internet to find all of the social media events this Fall, I present my version of the Social Media Master Calendar. Please, if you have an event I missed, use this post as a place to link it in the comments for all to see.
Media Bullseye’s Social Media and Tech Events Master Calendar, Fall 2008
August 2008
August 11th – September 4th • Social Media Club • Major Cities Across United States
August 19th – 21st • Intel Developer Forum • San Francisco, California
August 21st – 23rd • Gnomedex 8.0 • Seattle, Washington
August 24th – 27th • 2nd SNA-KDD Workshop • Las Vegas, Nevada
August 27th – 29th • Creative Freelancers Conference • Chicago, Illinois
August 29th • ROFLThing • San Francisco, California
September 2008
September 3rd • Metaverse Mix (Virtual Worlds) • Los Angeles, California
September 3rd – 5th • Office 2.0 • San Francisco, California
September 5th • Second Life Community Convention • Tampa, Florida
September 6th – 7th • PodCamp Philly – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7th – 9th • DEMO Fall 08 • San Diego, California
September 8th – 10th • TechCrunch 50 • San Francisco, Calfiornia
September 9th • Media Bistro/FreshBooks Party • New York City, New York
September 9th • Websites Without Walls • Washington, DC
September 10th • Grow Your Business Through Social Media • Rockville, Maryland
September 10th • DCDB 2 • Washington, DC
September 15th • Social Ad Summit • New York City, New York
September 15th – 19th • Interop New York 2008 • New York City, New York
September 16th • Northern Virginia Technology Council Cool Tech • McLean, Virginia
September 16th – 19th • Web 2.0 Expo • New York City, New York
September 17th • Interop NY • New York City, New York
September 18th • Mobilize by GigaOM • San Francisco, California
September 18th • Twin Tech 2 DC • Washington, DC
September 20th – 21st • PodCamp Montreal • Montreal, Quebec, Canada
September 22nd • KPMG Pick 20 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 23rd • Web Directions 2008 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
September 22nd – 26th • Toronto Tech Week – • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 24th • Chin Wag Live: Micro Media Maze • London, England
September 25th – 27th • BlogOrlando • Orlando, Florida
September 27th • PodCamp Ireland • Kilkenny, Ireland
September 25th – 28th • HOW Mind Your Own Business Conference • Austin, TX
September 26th – 28th • PodCamp Barccelona • El Masnou, Spain
September 27th – 28th • InfoCamp Seattle • Seattle, Washington
September 29th • Social Media Forum • Hamburg, Germany
September 29th – 30th • InterAct 2008 • Washington, DC
October and November 2008
October 2nd • TechCocktail DC 3 • Washington, DC
October 10th • Social Media For Social Change • Boston, MA
October 18th – 19th • PodCamp Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 23rd • Workshop On Human-Computer Interaction • Redmond, Washington
November 4th • UrbanSense08 • Raleigh, North Carolina
Coming up in Winter 2008 and Spring 2009, keep an eye out for:
Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, Palo Alto, California
and of course…
SXSW, Austin, Texas
I plan to do these master calendar posts every couple of months, unless some kind soul finally invents that much needed application to do it for me. Be sure to check back with Media Bullseye to find more events, and don’t forget to put yours in the comments if I didn’t discover it on my own.
Leslie Poston is a writer, social media maven and tech junkie. She conducts social media training sessions to help you bring your company into World 2.0 using social media and technology. She blogs at Uptown Uncorked.