There seems to be quite a bit going on right now (ok, always) around the world of Social Media. I have come to realize that even though I depend on Upcoming as my main event notification system, Upcoming is not the source of choice for many folks. Until I can resolve this electronically by having all calendars pump into one master database - I am going to start collecting all Social Media events (not just ours) from around the world, and post them here on the site twice a month. Now, I will preface this by saying, I am merely one person trying to do a good thing. I might miss some. If I do, please let me know as I want to put them on my radar.

Also if you know of events that members of our community would benefit from, please submit suggestions to calendar [at] socialmediaclub [dot] org and we will do our best to post them here. I will also, in the essence of full disclosure, note the events hosted by BrainJams/Social Media Club with an ‘*’.

So, here are events coming up (in date order) that I would recommend you participate in. Each one brings something cool to the plate - conversations, product demos, collaboration, etc. Some are free. Others are not. But we find them all worthwhile:

• New Age of Influence - Impact of Social Computing on Media & Marketing: November 6, 2006 in Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• Widgets Live! Conference: November 6, 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• Web Monday: November 6, 2006 in Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• Yahoo! Time Capsule Camp: November 6, 2006 in Sunnyvale, CA (USA)
• Web 2.0: November 7-9, 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• Creative Commons Salon: November 8, 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• Web 2point2*: November 9-10, 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• The New PR Conference: November 10, 2006 in London (UK)
• Seattle Mind Camp: November 11-12, 2006 in Seattle, WA (USA)
• Net Tuesday: November 14, 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• Social Media Club - London*: November 15, 2006 in Covent Garden, London (UK)
• Social Media Club - Phoenix*: November 16, 2006 in Phoenix, AZ (USA)
• >play: November 18, 2006 in Berkeley, CA (USA)
• Podcamp West: November 18-19, 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• Social Media Club - Seattle*: December 6, 2006 in Seattle, WA (USA)
• Social Media Club - Vancouver*: December 7, 2006 in Vancouver, BC (CANADA)
• We Media Miami: February 8-9, 2007 in Miami, FL (USA)
• International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media: March 26-28, 2007 in Boulder, CO (USA)
• N-TEN Nonprofit Technology Conference: April 4-6, 2007 in Washington, DC (USA)
• Media in Transition 5: April 27-29, 2007 in Cambridge, MA (USA)

:: UPDATED ::

11/07/06 - added The New PR Conference in London