Social Media Events Calendar, Fall 2008

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 11^th – September 4^th • Social Media Club • Major Cities Across United States

August 19^th – 21^st • Intel Developer Forum • San Francisco, California

August 21^st – 23^rd • Gnomedex 8.0 • Seattle, Washington

August 24^th – 27^th • 2^nd SNA-KDD Workshop • Las Vegas, Nevada

August 27^th – 29th • Creative Freelancers Conference • Chicago, Illinois

August 29^th • ROFLThing • San Francisco, California

September 2008

September 3^rd • Metaverse Mix (Virtual Worlds) • Los Angeles, California

September 3^rd – 5^th • Office 2.0 • San Francisco, California

September 5^th • Second Life Community Convention • Tampa, Florida

September 6^th – 7^th • PodCamp Philly – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

September 7^th – 9^th • DEMO Fall 08 • San Diego, California

September 8^th – 10^th • TechCrunch 50 • San Francisco, Calfiornia

September 9^th • Media Bistro/FreshBooks Party • New York City, New York

September 9^th • Websites Without Walls • Washington, DC

September 10^th • Grow Your Business Through Social Media • Rockville, Maryland

September 10^th • DCDB 2 • Washington, DC

September 15^th • Social Ad Summit • New York City, New York

September 15^th – 19^th • Interop New York 2008 • New York City, New York

September 16^th • Northern Virginia Technology Council Cool Tech • McLean, Virginia

September 16^th – 19^th • Web 2.0 Expo • New York City, New York

September 17^th • Interop NY • New York City, New York

September 18^th • Mobilize by GigaOM • San Francisco, California

September 18^th • Twin Tech 2 DC • Washington, DC

September 20^th – 21^st • PodCamp Montreal • Montreal,  Quebec, Canada

September 22^nd • KPMG Pick 20 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

September 23^rd • Web Directions 2008 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

September 22^nd – 26^th • Toronto Tech Week – • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

September 24^th • Chin Wag Live: Micro Media Maze • London, England

September 25^th – 27^th • BlogOrlando • Orlando, Florida

September 27^th • PodCamp Ireland • Kilkenny, Ireland

September 25^th – 28^th • HOW Mind Your Own Business Conference • Austin, TX

September 26^th – 28^th • PodCamp Barccelona • El Masnou, Spain

September 27th – 28^th • InfoCamp Seattle • Seattle, Washington

September 29^th • Social Media Forum • Hamburg, Germany

September 29^th – 30^th • InterAct 2008 • Washington, DC

October and November 2008

October 2^nd • TechCocktail DC 3 • Washington, DC

October 10^th • Social Media For Social Change • Boston, MA

October 18^th – 19^th • PodCamp Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

October 23^rd • Workshop On Human-Computer Interaction • Redmond, Washington

November 4^th • 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.